How To Get Back On Track When You Fell Off From Self-Improvement?

Introduction

Self-improvement is a life-long journey, which means, inevitably, there will be ups and downs in your life, and therefore, in your self-improvement progress. It’s easy to fall back into your bad habits, especially into this hyper stimulating world of instant gratification.

This is why, it’s important to know how to get back on the self-improvement train when you fall out of it. It happens to lose balance and fall, but you need to find a way to get back up and somehow, get back on the train. How to do it? We’ll see that in this article.

How to get back on track on self-improvement?

Getting back on track requires of you discipline and efforts. However, these tips could help you « channel » this discipline toward something useful.

As James Clear says in his book Atomic Habits, you do not rise to the levels of your goals, you fall to the levels of your systems. This is why, if you’re anything like me, or like a human being, instead of setting big goals only, you need to set big goals AND focus on the systems, the habits, the activities, that will help you, both physically and mentally, get closer to this goal.

So, first off, list your systems. Grab a paper and a pen, or a note on your phone or computer, and simply write or type the systems you should take to get back onto self-improvement.

This could look like the following list:

-Meditation

-Eating more fruits

-Training harder

-Reading more

Now, that you have this list, try to find ways to incorporate it into your daily life. For example, let’s say you come back from work everyday at 5:30pm, and then you need to take the dogs out and to prepare food and do this and that. Fine, that’s a pretty busy schedule. But how could you incorporate more self-improvement habits into your environment?

Okay, let’s make a rule. Every time you come back from work, you instantly meditate for 3-5 minutes, before doing ANYTHING. At EVERY meal, you keep a basket full of fruits next to you, and you always take one or two in your plate.

Every time you’re at the gym, you use your phone to count your rest-time in between sets so you don’t lose time being bored and unmotivated, you can also reduce your rest-times in between sets so you don’t demotivate yourself because of boredom, because you’re now always in action.

Reading more? Before going to sleep, you read for 5 minutes. 5 minutes every-night = a reading habit. You focused on your system, and you’re back onto self-improvement.

Use environmental change in your favor too. Want to eat more vegetables? Make it obvious by putting the vegetables on the kitchen counter. Ok, want to read more? Put (a self-help book preferably) a book on your bedside table, on top of something that you have to take before bed (a pill, the light switch to your bedside table light, etc) so you have to take in your hand the book, triggering the habit.

Try to start small. Your egotistical self might want you to read 1 hour a day and meditate 20 minutes everyday, and these are great goals that you can achieve in the seemingly near future. HOWEVER, realistically, you’ll not always be able to do that everyday if you’ve got a ton of priorities and responsibilities, AND, super important too, it’s important to realize that starting small is the key to any consistent habit.

It’s super hard to follow up everyday on 20 minutes on meditation. It’s much easier 3 minutes. Over-time, when you feel ready and comfortable to do so, you can upgrade the time. Going from 3 minutes of meditation to 5 minutes of meditation, to 10 minutes of meditation, to 20 minutes of meditation for example.

Using additional help from other people can also be a great factor to come back on self-improvement. Go find a friend, a family member, a mentor, a partner, anyone who could help you be accountable for your actions… and ask them to keep you accountable. For example, tell your best friend that if this month you don’t mediate 5 minutes every single day, you’ll give him a 100 dollars. Or, you’ll go to work or school with your clothes inverted. Or, you’ll eat lettuce, and only lettuce for a whole day. Shitty things that you don’t want to do. Or, even worse, walking with white shoes in the mud.

Learning from your mistakes is also particularly important. If you fell off of self-improvement because you achieved something big and your ego thought « well, I don’t need that anymore », next time you achieve something big and that you can be proud of, don’t start diminishing the importance of working on yourself. Keep reminding yourself that self-improvement is probably what gave you this success in the first place.

Finally, train your disciplinary skills. Do things when you don’t want to do them, and you know it’s good for you. Don’t want to go and run today, even tho you clearly scheduled it and it’s been 3 days you’re speaking about it to your friends? Go for a fucking run. Easy as that. Start small if needed, run only 5 minutes, but RUN.

Conclusion

Small changes truly make differences in our lives, and focusing on your systems instead of focusing on your goals, is one of the best way to achieve anything meaningful in life. Focus on your systems, on your habits, on your ways of seeing the world, rather than on setting goals, because any single bum in life could write on a paper « reach 10K in revenue this month » and feel productive, but man, no fucking bum out there sets out to actually do 10K in revenue by focusing on their system, which is working their ass off.

I hope this article was of help to you. Thank you for reading, and, as always, I’ll see you next time. Bye.

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