How to stay consistent · Optimal Living

How to stay consistent

You keep falling off because you still see yourself as lazy.

Let me explain.

Let's say you're life is like a rubber band.

Imagine your self-image is at Point A. Let's say you see yourself as unproductive. A procrastinator. A doom scroller.

Now, you start building good habits. You wake up early. You study. You lock in.

That's like pulling the rubber band tighter and tighter (further away from Point A, which is your self-image).

As you pull further (doing better habits with the same self-image), the rubber band gets tigher...

And boom, it snaps back.

Because deep down, you still see yourself as that lazy person.

Your habits improved, sure. But your identity didn't.

And your identity always wins.

You can only stretch so far before the rubber band pulls you right back to where you think you belong.

That's why you fall off. That's why consistency feels impossible.

Not because you're weak. But because you're fighting against your own self-image.

So here's the fix:

Move the rubber band.

Stop seeing yourself as the unproductive person trying to be better.

Start seeing yourself as a productive person who occasionally slips up.

Because when you do that? EVERYTHING changes.

Now, when you fall off — when you skip a day, when you doom scroll, when you mess up — the rubber band snaps you BACK to being PRODUCTIVE.

Because that's just who you are now.

You're not trying to become disciplined. You're just a disciplined guy.

You're not trying to be a hard worker. You just ARE a hard worker.

And when you slip? You get right back up. Because that's what a disciplined man would do.

So stop trying to build better habits while still seeing yourself as the person who can't stick to them.

Change the identity first.

The habits will follow.

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