Habits That Boost Progress
The top three hacks for boosting progress:
Consistency: Practice the same routine each day to help stack new habits that stick. Set a morning routine, maintain appropriate sleep hygiene, and work to replace old habits with new ones every few weeks. Don’t change your entire routine all at once. Instead, make one or two changes, perform them consistently, and only then should you add more to the regimen.
Letting Go of Perfection: Perfectionism is the quickest way to halt progress. Give yourself grace, focus on your successes, and let go of goals that weren’t achieved. Each day brings a new challenge, a new opportunity, and provides the ability to practice letting go of the chains of perfectionism.
Sleep: If we had to list a top hack, this would be it. Sleep trumps it all. A lack of sleep not only creates blood sugar imbalances, hormonal dysregulation, increases inflammatory markers, and causes a shutdown of your metabolism, but it also contributes to increased hunger and cravings. A lack of sleep has been linked to propagation of up to 7 of the 15 leading causes of death. In science, balance of the body is known as homeostasis, and sleep is the key to restoring it.
