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Will (00:00.344)
What's up y'all? Today we're talking about the secret of being consistent. And if you're like me, consistency is really, really tough, but it's also the secret sauce to success. So many S's. And so today we just get to dive into one of our favorite tools that we coach a bunch of students on to stay really consistent. yeah, we're getting straight into it. So that the tip that we get to talk about today is having bare minimum days.
And I first learned this from someone who was helping me with my fitness journey. And I had these crazy high expectations every single day where I'm like, I gotta be perfect. I'm gonna be perfect with my nutrition. I'm gonna be perfect with my actual workouts. I'm gonna be perfect with my sleep and all of it. And fast forward to a month, two months on this journey, I was perfect, I think for maybe one day.
And I felt like such a failure because I was like, you know, measuring myself up to this perfect, you know, version of success that I never actually hit. And so I fell off and I know that a lot of students kind of feel like this too, where, you know, they feel like they have to be perfect. All the social media videos are telling them, hey, you got to do this, this, this, and this. You got to have this morning routine, this evening routine. And we talk about a lot of that stuff on this podcast too. But in reality, you don't have to be perfect. And it actually really helps to let go of that pressure.
to stay consistent. the kind of thing, mental model that we talk a lot about is having bare minimum days and then also having high, like high gold days. So low gold days, high gold days. The low gold days is just kind of a list of all the things that you feel if I just follow through with these two or three things, I'm gonna maintain my progress. I might take a little bit of a step back, but.
at least I did the thing, right? High goal days are like kind of your ideal day. So if you could accomplish anything, then this is kind of your list. This is what would make the day feel really, really solid. So why is this so important? We'll start there. My goodness. Well, consistency is just like what you said, key to success, right? The secret sauce to success because you have to show up, right? Just with anything, practice is what makes
Will (02:20.782)
progress and so if we want progress towards our goals we have to kind of show up. So consistency is that's what gets us to show up that's what gets us that momentum so that yesterday I showed up I did the thing today I'm gonna show up I'm gonna do the thing it's so much easier to build from you know from a day one than it is to build from day zero right?
It's like a compounding sort of idea, snowball, right? It can start really small, but because it's continuing to roll, it's being consistent with that action, it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger, right? So absolutely consistency is key. And that's why I love this topic, this strategy so much because yeah, some days you're gonna wake up and you're gonna feel like, man, I'm not getting enough sleep. Last night was a sleepover or a football game. And today it's...
I'm exhausted. However, am I going to get all this stuff done? I already woke up late, right? How can I salvage this day? That's why we absolutely love, you know, low end gold days. All right, what's the bare minimum today? What can I still show up? And at the end of the day, I'm going to say, man, this was a success. Man, I'm proud of myself. That's what's going to help you with consistency is showing up in whatever way that looks like for you. And consistency, I'm going back to it is it really is the secret.
to success, I every successful person that you guys are looking up to, whether it's someone like Mr. Beast, right? Like if you wanna be a YouTuber, we coach a lot of kids that wanna be YouTubers or they wanna create content, they wanna have a business, I mean, it's very easy to look at those people and say, man, they were overnight successes, they have all of these crazy results and they just got really lucky or they're just incredibly talented.
at whatever they're doing, which all those things may be true or some of those things, but at the core root of all of their success is being willing to do things even when they didn't feel like it. So kind of on those days where they wake up without motivation, without confidence and just doing the dang thing anyways, because on those days it's kind of just like checking a box, right? It's just kind of maintaining the habit. I think about Mr. Beast a ton whenever I'm like thinking about this because
Will (04:41.231)
You kind of like look back at all of his first few years of making videos and he was just insanely consistent and he sucked at making videos for a really long time but he was okay with it because he knew that consistency was the key to success. And so what do those days actually look like? So low goal days, high goal days. I'll give some examples and that way you guys as listeners can.
Kind of just ask yourself these these same questions I think the first question that I would start with is what would help me keep momentum or keep The progress that I'm making so maintain the progress so with school, right? think instead of having you know, two hours of study time where you're perfectly You know focused and you have zero distractions. Maybe it's just you know starting your homework
and checking your assignments, checking your grades. Those are all things that are very controllable. They don't take a lot of time and a lot of, I should say, perfect motivation. But just starting and just convincing your brain that starting is success for that day. And maybe it's a nutritional goal that you may have. For me,
I have a high goal where I am eating X amount of grams of protein and at what times and I'm not eating two hours before bed or whatever it may be. But on low goal days where I'm just feeling like absolute dog doo doo. Maybe it's just, yeah, maybe it's instead of 150 grams of protein, it's 100 grams of protein. Instead of eating at six o'clock, maybe it's like, okay, I'll give myself an extra couple hours because I just feel a little bit off today.
What would you say? What are some examples that you feel like could help students or at least think about having their own low goal days and high goal days? Yeah, 100%. Definitely looking at your morning routine, I think is a huge one for me. A lot of times I'll wake up and, oh man, the alarm went off 10 minutes ago and I snoozed it, or 30 minutes ago and It's a waste of day. It's like, oh, I might as well just fast forward to tomorrow. I may as well just go back to bed, right? Like, it's gonna be a bad day. But asking yourself, like, well,
Will (06:55.404)
what in my morning routine really makes a big difference? Is it waking up and having a glass of water? it playing some really fun music to get my mood up? Ask yourself what is most important? What makes me feel the best? What makes me complete whatever I need to get done? Get out the door on time? I don't know. And really focus on those sorts of things. And I'm curious, well, what are some...
examples of low and high goals when it comes to like other areas of your life, right? Maybe it's with sports or maybe it's with grades and things like that. Cause I think we can kind of get into an all or nothing thinking with maybe some of those aspects. Yeah. That, and yeah, that's the one kind of, I think mental challenge that I have is I'm a very all or nothing. Right. And so that's, I think that's exactly how I would put it as well. So I would say,
just listing off like two or three things. And it doesn't have to be like a really long list. Again, the whole point of low goal days is that you kind of ask yourself, what's the bare minimum amount that I can do to feel decent when I go to bed, right? And so I think having maybe 30 minutes of undistracted work could be one of a really awesome thing instead of maybe like two hours of undistracted work. Maybe it's just like finishing your assignment rather than
finishing your assignment to the absolute best of your ability. Of course, the goal is not to have low goal days every single day. And so the goal is to eventually finish your assignments to the best of your ability and have that really awesome focused work in school or whatever. But yeah, I think that's a really easy example with sports for me. I did a lot of cross country and track, ran track in college.
And on days where I felt really, really good, maybe I was like going after a specific amount of miles at a specific time. On days where I felt really unmotivated and just lethargic and just low energy, maybe it's just, am going to finish 30 minutes of running and I'm gonna call that a success. Huge difference in kind of your mindset going into it, but at the end of whatever the workout is or the
Will (09:17.422)
30 minute run, the important thing is that you're checking off a box, right? And you didn't let go of the habit. You didn't take steps backwards. Maybe you didn't take a ton of steps forwards, but you just maintain your progress. And that's the important part of consistency. Again, the secret sauce of success. Yeah. And last question for you, I think a lot of kids will say, well, I'm tired every single day. So what are some signs that you could push yourself? You could go the extra mile.
And or do you just say well, I'm tired today. So it's gonna be a local day That's great question. That's a great question. So I would say You know if I think the first thing is if if you're tired every single day, then that's a completely different Different like maybe a different podcast episode that they listen to because we do talk a lot about like, you know, just overall energy But it's all about just starting small right and just building up with where you're at. And so
let's say you really do feel low energy, unmotivated every single day, then just start with kind of what we're talking about now and just kind of create, like what's the bare minimum that we can do in order to just maintain progress? And then I think also asking, what's a little bit more that I can try to do tomorrow? So maybe just building that belief barrier and having that growth mindset, I know that's kind of a cringey term that we talk about a lot, but you know.
The big reason why I used to feel like gross and unmotivated every day is because I told myself that I was gonna feel unmotivated tomorrow. And like that's a big thing. know, if you're telling yourself you're gonna feel unmotivated or you're just an unmotivated person, I'm just lazy, I'm just someone who procrastinates, then there's really no reason why your brain is gonna allow you to improve. And so ask yourself tomorrow, okay, if this is my bare minimum day, what can be a bare minimum day but a little bit more
tomorrow and that's where I would start with that. And then of course check out the other podcasts that we have because we do talk a lot about energy and energy is just huge in today's day and age. It's very easy to be low energy. It's never been easier to do nothing. But it's also never been easier to stand out. And so that's your stuff that we help with here. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I would just, I would just suggest that don't wait until you're feeling low energy to think about what should my bare minimum days look like because
Will (11:43.298)
You know, if you wake up and you're like, well, technically I have 20 more minutes, so I really need to be out of bed, you're gonna sleep in. But if you commit the day before, that's when you're really gonna see that energy spike. That's when you're gonna be able to get your butt out of bed on time, go get that bread, right? So same idea here, right now, wherever you are, wherever you're listening, write that down, right? Brainstorm, so that way when you do have a low energy day, you're ready for it.
I will also add, this is not just like days. I you can do this for your week. And I think this is something we talk a lot about on Sundays where we kind of create goals for the week and create kind of intentions. An awesome thing that you can start doing. you are, maybe you're just coming off of a really hard week, just ask yourself instead of, what can I do today? It's like, what's the bare minimum I can do this week? What do I know is gonna just help me maintain momentum or maintain...
kind of the progress. But then what's an ideal week? Because my mentor told me this, it totally changed how I looked at scheduling and planning. He's like, if you don't know what your perfect week is gonna look like, how do you expect to have it? And I said, dang. Yeah, that's very true. Because I never had mapped out my perfect day. I never mapped out my perfect week. And so that's another thing I'd say to that student who doesn't expect them to have a perfect day. It's like,
probably not thought about what that actually looks like. What are your thoughts? What are your actions? What are your energy levels? What are your habits? Who are you talking to? Who are you surrounding yourself with? I could go on, map that out on a Sunday evening. And it doesn't have to be really long time. Like just do it for five minutes, go for a walk, know, kind of do it on a walk. And you'll be really surprised that just by thinking about that thing, you're gonna be, have more of a likelihood of actually achieving that throughout the week. You'll be surprised at how little minimum days you'll actually have to do.
That's it for today everybody. Hope that you enjoyed this. We are starting to post a lot more content on Unstoppable You Coaching's Instagram page. And so go, if you're a student, if you aren't a student, that's okay too. You guys can all go to at Unstoppable You Coaching. We're gonna be posting a lot of podcast clips. We're be posting a lot of valuable content for students. Things to help with confidence, motivation, focus. And so you are not already following there, then make sure you go and do that.
Will (14:06.978)
But have the best day everybody. Enjoy your week. Talk soon. Peace.