Wanted to talk about daily consistency and share something I struggle with personally. It’s super important you know this when you begin attempting any daily goal.
YOU MUST TAKE SMALL LITTLE PIECES THAT YOU KNOW YOU CAN CUT & EAT EASILY.
Bite off something you know you can accomplish, especially when starting off!
I can give you an example in relationship to the dog here. She’s about seven-to-eight months old. Maple’s a good dog, but she can be a little hyper sometimes. I think she’s probably a little too-much Jack Russell terrier and not enough basset hound (or at least that’s what I think the situation is).
Needless to say, she’s a great dog, but she’s just a little hyper.
So, she’s driving me insane a couple weeks ago, and she she’s tearing into things while being really energetic. Maple was bugging me to play as I’m trying to work and do other things. I started to get a little frustrated with her.
I locked her outside of my office to make a phone call… And she chewed through an
very thick extension cord!
Thankfully, it wasn’t turned on or she might have hurt herself.
I realized at this point we needed to start getting her more exercise and stronger discipline/consistency.
I needed to get my ‘Cesar Millan on’ is how I worded it.
Immediately, I set my goal at taking her on two walks a day because I already was taking her on one walk every other day at least. That didn’t seem like too much of a difference, but I foolishly (immediately) jumped to this twice-a-day thing — as opposed to accepting a smaller goal I knew I could get started with — which would have been once-a-day in this case. Hell, I live in Cincinnati. It rains every day right now, and it’s difficult to plan on anything involving the weather.
Why put myself out there to do twice-a-day in order to disappoint myself ultimately?
Before hitting any sort of momentum?
I don’t have a good answer for that.
I should start with one and build up from there.
Go onto two and beyond.
And that’s what I’ve started (after about a week of feeling sorry for myself for failing). I realized I was setting myself up for failure.
I think everybody does this with different personal things — whether it’s dishes, house chores or wherever else people are underachieving with in their own lives.
That’s my point… The smaller you can make that first bite, the easier it is to build momentum. It starts getting easier from there. Just food for thought.