Consistency makes progress. Intensity makes a good story.

If your default mode of thinking, doing, and being is all-or-nothing, THIS IS FOR YOU!

Black and white, all or nothing, perfectionistic thinking is a big obstacle for so many of us when we are trying to do just about anything.

We jump into challenges like 75 Hard where the only thing that counts in perfection.

If it’s not perfect you have to start over.

This might help you make a major change in the short term, but it hardly ever sticks.

The quick results you get are gone in a couple months.

You don’t need to be perfect. You just need to be consistent.

A lot of us fall into the trap of thinking we need to go all in or do something perfectly for it to “count.” So we wait for the perfect moment to do the big thing. And in the meantime, we do nothing.

But that perfect moment never comes.

The little actions you repeat every day are what create real, lasting change.

If you are getting back into running or swimming or lifting or whatever, you don’t need to match the workouts you did in your 20s.

If you want to become more organized, a whole house cleaning from top to bottom will give you immediate results, but maintaining them will be next to impossible if you don’t change your habits.

You just need to get your reps in.

• Take a walk, even if it’s just to your mailbox and back.
• Keep one surface area clean, even if the rest of the room is messy.
• Stretch for two minutes, even if you used to hit the gym for hours.

Small, repeated actions become habits, and those habits shape your results over time.

This is how my bedroom went from being a total disaster to a peaceful escape for me. For real.

I was the kids whose room was always out of control. I NEVER made my bed. This continued into adulthood.

Then about five years ago I committed to making my bed every day. Consistently making my bed eventually led to a domino effect of consistently keeping my room neat. It took me five years, but my physical environment is so much different than it was a decade ago.

And it all started from consistently making my bed.

So stop waiting for perfect.

Start working on that black and white thinking, and start doing something small that will lead you to your bigger goal.

Today.