The Mindset Switch I Made For My Everyday Goals (Binary Mentality To Spectrum Mentality)

To continue off from last week’s discussion, we will discuss some strategies to be as consistent as we can humanly be for today.

We are our own harshest critics. Sometimes it’s very helpful to be pushing ourselves, but other times it would just be straight sabotage.

Being consistent at anything is never easy. Even when it comes to life essentials like drinking water and eating food.

Sure you (hopefully) are drinking and eating everyday, but within drinking and eating is a spectrum. Let me explain:

I believe your goals when it comes to eating and drinking isn’t merely just to survive. If that were the case then we would all be comfortable being homeless.

(At least in USA, it’s really not that hard to get food as a homeless person. I had a night where my best friend and I wanted to give food to the needy and we were turned down by more than 4 homeless people, because they wanted burgers instead of chicken.)

Eating is not just the matter of putting nutrients into your stomach. The type of food, the hours you eat, and how much you eat are all different metrics you can measure, hence a spectrum.

Sure you might be eating everyday, but are you able to consistently eating in a way that will give you a certain body type result you want?

Sure you are drinking water, but are you drinking enough each day?

When you set a goal to lose weight, you start following a workout and diet guide or plan. Within those plans are targets you want to hit each day. And here comes my point:

Some days you will literally kill it, and I mean KILL IT. Everything goes absolutely right, hitting good workout sessions, eating all the right foods, feeling like you’re on top of the world. Kudos to you my friend.

Some days you mess up. The days where you “mess up” is where I want to put my focus on.

I know I used to have a tendency to just drop the whole day and call it a failure, just because I missed a little bit.

I am supposed to stick to a diet and “accidentally” ate some ice cream.

“Oh man, I already messed up, might as well try again tomorrow. I’ll just eat whatever the heck I want for the rest of the day. And might as well also skip my workout.”

And down down down we go.

This is what I call living in a binary world. It took me a long time to finally realize how ridiculous that mindset was. I was treating my daily goals as if they are either 1s or 0s. Total victory or complete failures. When in reality, its more of a spectrum.

It’s not about if you ate and worked out right today, it’s more about how much and how well you’ve eaten and worked out.

You will never be 100% everyday, some days you will be 90%, some days 60% and some days even at less than 20%.

But the whole point is that you should never let yourself be at zero, just because you’re not at a hundred.

So, if not 0, and not 100, then how much is optimal?

According to “bro science”, I will say 80% worked the best for me, and what do I mean by that?

Let’s say I’m trying to create content. I need to sit down and write, for at least 30 mins a day everyday.

But I would be happy if I only write for 80% of 30 minutes, or 80% of days in a week ( 5 to 6 days a week instead of all 7).

I am not completely locked in on how much I must do, I am not aiming to make everything perfect, but I am still doing more than enough.

The 80% rule is incredibly useful for keeping us from absolutely burning out. It really applies to everything else in life as well.

Plus the effort it takes from 0 to 80 is a lot less than it takes to go from 80-100. And going from 80-100 a couple times and then be at 0 for a few days after because of burnout will always be less effective than being at 80% for the rest of your life.

Some might argue that other people are able to be at 100% everyday. That is absolutely false. They might seem like they are at 100% because their “fuel tank” is just that much bigger than yours.

Their 50-80% of the energy tank they have is more than your 100%.

And yes, there are ways to of course increase your energy reserve. That would be a topic for another day.

Hopefully my personal experience and world view has some kind of positive influence over you. If you’re still not sure what’s right for you, don’t hesitate to reach out to me on any of my socials at http://drburgerflipper.com

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