Habit Formation is the Key to Consistency
Strength training, studying, waking up early, side hustles...
I'm sure you have all thought about starting something and actually began working on it.
And I'm sure you have also experienced quitting or failing after a month, or even less than a week.
Conversely, is there anything you have been doing consistently for years?
Why do we fail?
Why are we able to keep going?
It comes down to whether or not the thing you are working on has become a
"habit."
This element becomes extremely important.
When anyone starts working on something, they have very high motivation at first.
However, after a few days or weeks, that initial motivation eventually fades.
In other words, if you try to rely solely on motivation and willpower to keep going, you will almost certainly—no, you could say 100%—fail and quit.
To continue, it depends on how you can incorporate it into your life without relying on your own willpower.
Simply put,
it depends on whether you can "automate" it.
Let me give you a concrete example.
I have been going to the gym six days a week for the past six months.
When they hear "six days a week," many people probably think, "I couldn't do that."
So why have I been able to keep it up for half a year?
It is because I automated
"going to the gym."
Before I started going to the gym, I checked my weekly schedule and figured out a time when I could definitely go every day.
Then, I decided to go to the gym at that set time every single day.
No matter how little I wanted to go, no matter how bad the weather was.
By doing this, I no longer had to think about whether to go to the gym or what time to go, and before I knew it, going to the gym had become second nature.
Please assume that human willpower is dozens, no, hundreds of times weaker than you think.
Humans are creatures that look for reasons not to do things so they can slack off.
For us to keep doing something, the most important thing is not to rely on our own motivation or willpower, but to turn it into a habit.
Please decide to do something at a specific time every day.
And just keep doing it until you can do it without thinking at all.
By that time, you will surely have formed a habit.
In the future, I plan to post articles that delve into the essential parts of what my life is actually like and what you should be conscious of and keep in mind.
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