Process Addiction - Consistency > Perfection

Habits.

Patterns.

Consistency will ALWAYS be better than perfection.

Floors and Ceilings.

In order to have a ceiling, you must have a floor.

I think we can all agree on that.

In order to have peaks, there must be valleys.

In order to have an amazing loaf of bread, you must have little specks of yeast.

In order to be consistency, we must have floors.

Brooke Snow teaches brilliantly about floors and ceilings.

She says:

A ceiling is your high ideal. It's your big picture vision of a goal, a change, or a new habit. It's who you want to be as your future self.

A floor is your tiny version of change. It's your tiny version of a habit. It's your short version of a practice. It's your BARE MINIMUM.

In fact, this is the key to finding consistency!

When January 1st comes, we are SO excited about all of our new goals.

We are spot on.

We are on point.

We are enthusiastic.

We are ALL IN.

Then February 1st rolls around, and life is happening and we feel like if we don't maintain that same level of enthusiasm, we have failed.

Then, we just quit.

We consider all of it a big failure.

This is where floors come in.

When we have a goal, we need to specifically identify our floor and our ceiling.

Example:

My monthly blueprint is very specific about my physical goals: 

Five days a week at the gym

Daily habits on top of the gym

Ceiling: 

Five days at the gym with cardio and my daily rotation

Daily habits during the day completed

Floor:

Show up at the gym and sit in the massage chair or the sauna

Stretch every time I go to the bathroom

AND, cheer my dang self on.

Tell myself that I'm awesome!

Reward myself for accomplishing floors!!!