How to get back on track (fr this time)🚂⛰💪

Sunday, March 9, 2025

“In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don’t have much time? Scale it down. Don’t have much energy? Do the easy version. Find different ways to show up depending on the circumstances. Let your habits change shape to meet the demands of the day.

Adaptability is the way of consistency.” - James Clear

Slow and controlled🐌🎛

The past two weeks I was in a mini-rut. Sure, I was getting in the basics like school, working out, study sessions, showers, and shaves, but not with the same rigor like how I used to. I started to skip study sessions for an hour of doomscrolling. Calling off the day and eating everything I got my hands on. Feeling inferior towards my past self.

Eating more sugar and having low overall discipline felt permanent. But I have found an antidote. That antidote is setting the bar of winning low. If winning looked like a six-hour study weekend, setting the bar as low as one hour is the tool to get back on track. Slowly progressing to 30 minutes more or reducing screen time by just 15 minutes are the comparitively embarressing yet essential action steps for growth and bouncing back.

Picture this: a person used to go for morning runs every day. Smashing his personal best times consistently. But let’s say the low of life hit. He stopped going to run for a month or two due to getting sick or whatever. Would it be logical and feasible to break the personal record immediately? Of course it wouldn’t. The runs would be groggy, the pace would be slow, and it would take more time to adapt.

The goal instead for the guy is to bring back consistency again. Going for runs shorter than last time, but just bringing the miniscule, even embarrassing bit of improvement in the runs.

You immediately getting the car to gear 5 will break the car down. Start with gear 1, then gear 2, and so on.