Things I Hope You Learned During the Daily Habit Challenge

• Progress not perfection. Trying to be perfect with everything leads to spinning your wheels, or never even trying. I hope you realized it doesn’t matter if you missed a day or screwed up your plan, what matters is staying in the game, continuing to play, even when the circumstances aren’t ideal.

• Doing it every day can be unsustainable, but a nice kickstart. Boot camp for a habit, if you will. If you want to continue on with your nightly stretching routine, but 7 days per week seems unsustainable, adjust accordingly heading into November.

• Small things add up. If you read 5 minutes every day in October, that would be 2 and a half hours of reading, without even having to try that hard. Imagine the same reading schedule for a year; over 30 hours.

• There is no hiding from consistency. People think they’re much more consistent than they actually are. “No, I eat healthy all the time…” Enter the weekend and 6 alcoholic beverages, 4 hours of less sleep, and a diet void of micronutrients. You’re not consistent if you follow a 5 days on 2 days off plan with your nutrition.

• There are no shortcuts.

Justin Miner

@justinminergain