The Full Short Guide to Setting Effective Perfect Habits

This guide was created to answer the common question of "how do I stay consistent with my goals and habits?", I wrote this guide after seeing there's not even a single, simple, practical, short guide that explains in layman's terms how to get our goals with 100% certainty and 100% consistency, something which is actually much simpler than you've ever thought!

This guide is made up of 3 short parts:

1. The Principles of Success (Theory).
2. Setting Right Habits and Goals (Set-up).
3. Daily Reports and Consistency (Execution).

There is a very high priority to reading and understanding the short theory section because most of what we've been taught about success simply isn't true, and if we believe what we've been taught, we'll never succeed because we'll stop everytime we have the slightest feeling of not making progress and still be looking for that "magic pill" years later.

Part 1, The Principles of Success (Theory):

In this part I'll explain two simple principles of success that we have to know and internalize in-order to correctly set our goals and the daily habits that allow us to achieve them, these principles will completely free you from whatever success blocks you have, and show you how everything is possible given enough time and consistency.

Principle - Steady Wins the Race: Many times in life we see our goals because of our pain and frustrations. "That's it! I'm tired of being fat!", we suddenly decide to stop everything and start that diet we've been delaying - we'll throw out all the bad food from the house, go on a buying spree getting the healthiest foods, promising we'll work out for at-least 1 hour every single day, and then say "OK! Tomorrow my life changes!". Fast forward 2 weeks later, maybe you've taken some action or maybe you've just reverted back immediately, but the end result is the same - you're still eating that crap food, not working out, feeling even more frustrated than before and pessimistic about yourself. The biggest reason people don't achieve their goals is because they think it's just a function of "wanting it bad enough", unfortunately for desire, changes always take time and habits need gradual change. We have to be patient to watch our goals and desired habits manifest into reality. The more you're used to one thing the longer it'll take you to change it. You want to spread that difficulty over some time by lowering the intensity of your change and gradually falling into it.
Principle - Consistency * Intensity * Time = Massive Results: Imagine a huge and heavy flywheel standing on an axis, your job is to spin it. You get closer and begin pushing it with all your strength and it slowly starts to rotate by a few degrees. Now you keep applying pushes for hours. An hour, then another hour, you keep pushing, and now it actually completed a full rotation! Eventually after a few hours of pushing you finally hit a milestone! The wheel has so much momentum that it keeps spinning by its own inertia! You keep pushing the flywheel, applying consistent pushes to make it spin faster and fast, eventually the flywheel spins so fast that it's not going to stop for a long time even if completely stop pushing. Now let's just say somebody were to come up and see the wheel spinning, his question would undoubtedly be "What's the massive push that made this wheel spin so fast?!". Taking specific actions consistently over time can create any result, like compound interest. A positive habit will generate exponentially positive results based on the daily intensity and the amount of time it is done indefinitely. Whatever you want to achieve in your life, the baseline requirement will always be consistency.

Part 2, Setting Right Habits and Goals (Set-up):

Now it's time to set our daily, consistent habits. Use this following simple process.

1. Decide what are the things you want in life, thing long-term ideal goals such as "I'm extremely healthy and my body is full of energy", "I'm extremely mindful and always calm", "I'm famous with hundreds of millions of followers", etc.. The reason I want you to go for very long-term idealistic (ie: impossible to reach) goals is because many times I've made the mistake of making small-medium goals, adopting consistent daily massive habits, accomplishing these goals and as a result stopping the habit, which as you've guessed, caused me to lose what I worked hard to create. For example, many times in my life I would go to the gym for 3-4 months, work my ass-off 7 days a week, get in awesome shape and then just lose it all as I stop going to the gym again, Nowadays I'm in the best fitness of my life because I'm aiming to infinity. So write down your long-term ideal goals:
1. Ideal, Long-Term Goal: (example: I'm super famous and the whole world knows me).
2. Ideal, Long-Term Goal: ____________________.
3. Ideal, Long-Term Goal: ____________________.
4. Ideal, Long-Term Goal: ____________________.

2. Now that we know which directions we want to be going, we need to think of the daily habits that we believe support in reaching that goal, for example if you want to be extremely fit, it would make sense to have the daily habits of working out, intermittent fasting and 7+ hours of sleep. If your goal is to be very famous it would make sense to have the habit of uploading a lot of content every day. So write down your daily required habits:
1. Daily required habitexample: Upload 5 videos of content every day)..
2. Daily required habit: ____________________.
3. Daily required habit: ____________________.
4. Daily required habit: ____________________.

3. At this point we're going to look at the intensity of the habits, our goal is to do each habit 7 days every week (consistency is king), so we need to know what is the intensity level that we have to lower to in-order to be able to guarantee 100% do-or-die commitment that we'll be 100% consistent with the habit. You MUST lower the intensity of each habit until you know with your entire heart that there's no chance on earth that you won't per 100% consistent even on your worst day ever. Remember - you can always do more if you want to, but unless you have a minimum requirement that you're 100% committed to, I guarantee you won't stick with the habit.
1. I guarantee to (example: meditate), (example: 10 minutes) every day, no matter what.
2. I guarantee to do ________ action, _____ (times/minutes) every day, no matter what.
3. I guarantee to do ________ action, _____ (times/minutes) every day, no matter what.
4. I guarantee to do ________ action, _____ (times/minutes) every day, no matter what.

Part 3, Daily Reports and Consistency (Execution):

I use a basic journaling system of daily reports to make sure I accomplish all my goals and habits (as a matter of fact writing this piece IS one of my habits), I have the habit of writing down my goals every morning, followed by a success quote, followed by the list of daily goals (which I simply copy instead of writing down every day).

My rule is simple - I don't go to bed until I accomplish all of my goals. Period.

I've found that if I let even 1 goal slip and not happen I'll find an excuse every day to slip on my goals, so I'm committed do-or-die, healthy or sick, happy or sad, to doing my goals every single day.

This keeps all areas of my life in a constant upward growth momentum that will not stop for anyone or anything.

I want to note that my goals are across ALL areas of my life, so I just focus on my daily goals and this helps me make sure ALL areas of my life are growing.

At night before bed I write down in the same daily report what my successes were, what I learned and then I write my goals down again.

Find your own way of journaling your daily goals and making sure you can easily cross them off every day, do this for 1 month and your life will change in ways you've never imagined before.

Feel free to ask me any questions,

Robby