Hello! This is the beginning of a four-part series called “Being Consistent is More Important Than Being Perfect.” I’m making it 4 parts because I am going to focus on four different aspects that are key parts of my life and what I advocate for. I am going to focus on fitness, nutrition, faith, and mindset, to wrap it all up. I believe that, in life, this is an incredibly important lesson to learn and I can’t wait to share it! It is a lesson that truly applies to all of the main topics of my blog, and that is so hard to find.
I’m sure that many of you have gone through this spiel, “Oh I skipped my workout yesterday, my whole week is ruined” or “Oh it’s already 9 PM, I will work out tomorrow,” and then you forget to work out and the previous conversation takes place. I am a culprit of this myself. Most of the time, for me, I would skip a workout on Thursday and Friday and say “It’s so close to the weekend, I will just start again next week.” You are not alone, it is a human thing to do this. On the days that I really, really don’t want to go to the gym or go on a run and I end up pushing through, I may not have the greatest workout as if I was ready to go and excited to be there, but… I did it. I did something. A large part of the time, that is why most people quit. They see a bad workout as equivalent to doing nothing. That is far from the truth. Being consistent is so much more valuable than being perfect. Because if you go to the gym even whenever you don’t want to number one it builds up that willpower and that mindset to continue doing that. Also, there is a rule that YouTube content creator, Matt D’avella created that I really believe in and agree with called the “Two-Day rule.” It says that if you skip the gym two days in a row, you are much more likely to not go back the next day than if you only skipped one. To me, this rule totally applies and it doesn’t have to just apply to the gym – it can also apply to habits that you are trying to build. (I apologize I’m deviating from the subject, however, I felt like that was important to add). Nobody is perfect, that is the truth. It is not healthy or realistic to go to the gym, everyday, for years and years. If you set your expectations too high saying that you must be perfect, then whenever you skip one day, or you get sick, or you go on vacation, it throws off your whole schedule and you say, “Well I wasn’t perfect, so it’s not worth it anymore.” Anybody with an extremely good physique, or a marathon runner, or an extreme athlete probably doesn’t go to the gym seven days a week. Or even if they do, they have messed up at some point, whether it comes to what they eat to fuel their body, or have gotten hurt, or skipped the workout. The reason why they are successful isn’t because of one great workout that they did. It is because they keep coming back and they keep putting in the work. Fitness journeys aren’t completed overnight, you can’t expect to gain your dream physique from one week of hard work. On the days where it is hard, just show up, even if you make a goal to show up for ten minutes… just show up. That is truly my best piece of advice, not only from my own experience but from listening to a lot of successful athletes and knowing some with similar stories.
I hope this was something that a lot of people can at the very least relate to. I’m sorry if I didn’t teach anything, I know I was probably reiterating a lot of what is said on social media and by other fitness influencers but I hope that I can connect with everybody who is reading this. I can’t wait for everyone to read the rest of the parts in the series.