The Ritual of Consistency

The most power ritual you can incorporate into your life is the Ritual of Consistency. This ritual has only one purpose behind it: To build persistence by making the timing and performance of your other rituals consistent.

“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel” — Napoleon Hill

By making the time at which you perform your rituals consistent, you establish that these hours carry sacred meaning to you. Whether it’s 5am for your morning ritual, or 2pm for my writing ritual, deliberately marking out time for your rituals places greater importance and meaning to them — they aren’t just some event that you do sporadically.

Here’s how the Ritual of Consistency can help in your other rituals:

Do you want to eat healthier? Make meal prepping a ritual. Then apply the Ritual of Consistency: Every Sunday morning, at around 8:30am you go to the supermarket and buy what you need to make for the week ahead. 10:30am comes around and you begin your meal prepping ritual.

Why 10:30am? Because it gives you just enough time to finish preparing your meals, cleaning the kitchen and then its off to lunch. The time at which you start also should carry meaning.

Week after week, you carry out this ritual at the same time. Never failing to go to the market at 8:30am and beginning prepping at 10:30am. Soon, you would have carried out your rituals often enough that the effects begin to show.

You’re eating healthier, saving money from ordering take-away and eating out less. You feel better and your well-being has improved. At this point, you couldn’t imagine a life without meal prepping anymore — after all the benefits you’ve gained from it. Eventually, these rituals will become second nature to you — you no longer need to think about having to doing it anymore.

Almost as if it has become a habit.

TECHNOLOGIES

Establish Good Tech Habits Now to Last a Lifetime

Technology can be an absolute lifesaver for students in higher education. It can help you communicate and collaborate, keep you organized, help to improve your writing, and even help expand your future employability. Unfortunately, too many students already have poor tech habits that can undermine their education and future success, such as engaging in portable procrastination and failing to live in the present. These bad habits are not insurmountable, and an excellent place to start overcoming them is by establishing good tech habits to counteract the bad ones. These four positive tech habits will help you be successful not only in higher education, but for the rest of your life.

The Importance of Establishing Good Tech Habits
Most people simply do not have good habits when it comes to technology. Either because they don't know what to do, how to do it, or why doing it is important. Much of this inaction is attributable to the fear of the technology learning curve and the perceived difficulty of using new features and tools. Establishing good tech habits does involve some of that and a small initial time investment, but generally speaking, the four things that I am about to propose can largely be automated (or already are), and require only a short initial learning and set-up period to establish.

The effect of this fairly minimal effort can, however, be dramatic. These good technology habits can help to make sure you never lose a document or file again, are safe from cyber threats, lead a more efficient life, and are intellectually engaged for life. Considering the relatively minimal effort required and the surprising benefits, these might just be four of the most important things you ever do with technology.