Set deadlines. create urgency for yourself. When it came to school or work, people would assign you a certain deadline to submit an assignment or to reach a certain target by the end of the ay/week/month, but when it comes to skills you want to work on by yourself, there's no punishment or a deadline hence we'll tend to delay and delay till the last minute. Example: I want to clean my room. If I don't set a deadline, the work will most likely not get done till weeks later. If possible it would be better for you to include a sort of punishment. Asking someone to help you hide your phone or giving someone $50 for not doing what you set out to do are examples of punishments you can implement alongside your deadline to ensure you stick to schedule.

Write down your goals and paste it up somewhere. Writing down your goals serve as a reminder as to why you are on this journey of consistency. Don't just set your goals to just: I want to make 10k per month, I want to box, I want to achieve an aesthetic physique, I want to become consistent. This is too broad and has no practical steps whatsoever. Instead break the goal down. For example in regards to becoming consistent, identify a certain area you want to be consistent in and specify an amount of time you wanna spend per day on the skill. Besides consistency, if my goal is to get an aesthetic physique, the practical goal would be to do 3 set of exercises for 3 sets each as a start and then search for more ways to achieve efficiency.

Try using the "eat the frog method". This method is the equivalent of working earlier on the most difficult tasks rather than keeping it for later. Imagine you had to eat a frog today. Would you hold it off till later or eat it now? If you eat it now then u would have gotten it over with and wont needa think about it for the rest of the day. In contrast if u leave it till later you will be thinking about it the entire day which drains your energy since you will keep reminding yourself that you needa eat it. Same thing with work. If you know you have work to do during the day that's not the most pleasant, doing it in the beginning when you still have all the energy stored is recommended as you are more likely to start compared to when you've held it off till the end when you are already feeling drained. Once energy is drained, starting becomes harder. (Example: Today the plan is to wash the disgusting toilet. Starting right when i wake up will help me get it over with and build momentum to continue with other tasks throughout the day.)

Make distractions harder to access while making work easier to start. As mentioned on Day 4, our brain chooses comfort hence if work becomes the most comforting and easiest thing to start, our brain will naturally lean in to that. (Example: I have a habit of playing mobile games. If my phone is somewhere far away or if I decide to give it to someone to hide it for a period of time, while at the same time putting my work notebook right on the table to open in one sec, I will lean towards working as finding my phone is such a troublesome process.

I got reminded that we should not rely on our feelings. Don't just do the work only when you feel like it. That is the root cause of procrastination. Normally our brain itself conflicts with what we need to do as it strives for comfort more than anything else. Don't listen to that inner voice saying that you should postpone it to later or another day. (Example: I have planned to go to the gym at 4 30. All of a sudden, an inner voice is telling me to instead take a nap. Discard that thought immediately and take responsibility to work on the things you've set yourself up to do). This insight even more me at the moment seems tough as I've done stuff based on feelings many times, but I believe we can overcome it.