The Habit of the Habit is More Important Than the Habit Itself

I stayed up until 4am last night just to post on Instagram, write a blog post, meditate and do my push ups.

In the past, it would have got to 12:30am, I’d think “Nah, sleep is more important than my habit tracker.”

And I can already hear my morning-person friends telling me off 😂

But here’s the thing I learned from the brilliant Gretchen Rubin: The habit of the habit is more important than the habit itself.

The world wouldn’t fall apart if I didn’t meditate or post on Instagram last night. And yet, the consequences could be drastic, because it’s about the consistency of showing up for my dreams every single day that matters.

That’s why I made a phone screensaver of my motto:

There’s a reason I’m always banging on about this motto – it has changed my life so rapidly in the last few months.

• I’ve gone from 0-40 push ups. Last night I smashed out 20 without even feeling a thing. Every single day, I train (and on rest days, I condition my body, so I’m always doing SOMETHING towards my goal of 100 push ups).

• I’ve meditated for 291 days in a row. For real.

• I’ve written 170 blog posts.

• I’ve built a membership site that I’m in love with, that has amazing people in it.

There’s a lot of hype about being consistent, but it’s the DAILY consistency that is the real trick to making success part of your DNA.

Feel free to screenshot or save it to your phone screensaver too!