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Why Consistency Beats Motivation Every Time · Doctor Turned Health Coach

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  Welcome to the Doctor-Turned Health Coach Podcast. My name is Dr.
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  Ashuri, family medicine doctor turned health coach.
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  Today, we're going to talk about the power of consistency, persistence.
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  Now, I know, listening to this on a podcast, it's just not that exciting,
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  and I probably won't be able to get it across to you guys.
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  But maybe I can give you some examples.
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  And you can kind of see if in your life there's been some examples of your persistence,
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  your consistency having paid off.
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  When it comes to health, health is a long-term process.
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  And while it's very difficult in our 20s and our 30s, even in our 40s,
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  to see ourselves a few decades from now in our 60s, 70s, 80s,
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  being healthy, being active, it's just a very hard thing to envision.
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  It's a very hard thing to imagine the people
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  who got there many just by
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  pure chance just great genetics but i would
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  say most most likely had a lot to do with it they they had they made a lot of
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  decisions they made a lot of choices on a day-to-day basis that weren't huge
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  they weren't massive these weren't the kind of choices where i would say oh
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  my gosh like this guy made such a big sacrifice,
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  spent years and hours in the gym.
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  No, just these small, persistent, consistent habits.
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  But they stuck with it. They didn't stop. And if you think back to any business you ever started,
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  any artistic or athletic performance you ever excelled at, it was likely because
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  you just did it on a consistent enough basis.
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  It doesn't mean that you're performing at your best every single time when you show up.
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  It's the fact that you show up every single time.
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  And when you do stop, you get right back on it. You don't stop and then you
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  forget about it for the next three years.
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  I would say some of the best artists, some of the best musicians,
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  some of the best painters, writers, doctors, artists.
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  Anybody who's in sports, tennis stars, they were the kind of people who just kept doing it.
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  Now, of course, it's much better and much, much easier if you really love it,
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  if you really, really enjoy it.
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  And yes, it's going to make it a lot easier for you to stick with something long term.
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  I can give you an example in my own life. I love rock climbing,
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  but there was a time when I think after the first few sessions,
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  when you get a lot of really good results and you quickly go from a beginning climber,
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  let's say a V0 rock climbing,
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  bouldering person to like, ooh, I made it to a V3.
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  Well, within that first year, you're likely going to lose the steam.
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  But you do find something enjoyable about it and you kind of persist.
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  You show up. You consistently go to the gym. You kind of keep showing up.
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  Even though you're not making progress, maybe you're even regressing.
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  And sure enough, after some time, you're going to have incredible results because the steam picks up.
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  And because you showed up every single time, you figured out what you needed
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  to do to consistently make some progress.
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  I think that's one of the most powerful things that I've learned in my own personal journey.
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  When it's come to building my own business, my own medical practice,
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  my own health coaching practice, is it's the consistency of showing up,
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  the persistence with maybe some of the more difficult things,
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  but just showing up and doing it.
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  When it comes to our health habits, it's just going to the rock climbing gym and climbing.
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  It's just going to the exercise section of your gym and just getting on that
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  bicycle and doing those spins, right?
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  It's just doing it. And when you don't feel like doing it, you just still go and you do it.
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  It's being able to get over that little bit of friction in the beginning,
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  and once you do it long enough it does really become a habit
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  it really really becomes a habit i can give you a great example of one of my
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  clients who never believed that he could do meal prepping or get his food ready
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  to be done so that he stopped eating out sure enough after just a few times
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  he loved it he said it was so easy and we consistently kept him.
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  Doing it. We consistently kept him making those dishes, putting those trays
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  in the oven, getting that food
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  ready ahead of time, because I knew if he didn't, he would lose the steam.
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  And he's persisted. And it's been a few months, and he's going strong,
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  and he's like, I don't even, I can't even imagine what it was like before.
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  I just opened my fridge, and I know I got some good options, and I know I want those.
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  And if he continues with that, I suspect he's going to have a lot of successes
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  when it comes to how he eats and what he eats.
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  I hope this content is of value. I hope that, again, I know it's not easy to
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  convey the importance of being consistent, of doing something and not stopping,
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  even if you want to give up, but just still doing it, even to some degree.
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  But it's a valuable, valuable skill, and I hope that it pays off for you in the long run.