If you want to get better at anything, there’s a simple formula: show up every day. I know it sounds painfully obvious, but it’s actually harder than it sounds. If you’re like me and have trouble getting back into your routine after a holiday or time off work, here are some easy ways to make sure that you’re getting in the right amount of practice each day…

Showing up is 80% of the work.

It’s a common saying in many sports and fitness circles, but it holds true: If you want to get better, you have to show up. Every day. This is where the rubber meets the road, and this is where most people go wrong.

They want results without having to do anything or make any sacrifices whatsoever; they want immediate gratification but don’t want to put in any effort or work for it; they expect things to be handed to them on a silver platter with no strings attached…but those things don’t exist because this isn’t a fairy tale! If you want something done well, you have to do it yourself—and sometimes that means putting in extra time after practice when everyone else has already gone home so that nobody sees how much effort (or lack thereof) goes into achieving excellence at whatever it is that interests us most deeply as individuals regardless of which sport we’re playing or whether our goal involves winning medals instead of just showing progress over time…

Set an alarm clock or another alarm to wake you up early enough that you really can show up.

You’ll want to set your alarm a minimum of 30 minutes before the time you want to get up. Set it in a place where you can’t just turn it off and go back to sleep, like on the other side of the room or in your bathroom (flushable alarms are great!)

Don’t use your phone’s alarm feature; if you do, be sure that it doesn’t need charging overnight. That way you won’t have any excuses for missing your wakeup call.

Finally, if there’s any chance that setting an early alarm could make you late for work or school (for example, if someone else has control over when they set their own alarms), don’t risk it! Choose another time or find some other way of waking up early enough each day so that showing up becomes part of who you are as an employee/student instead of being something forced upon yourself by circumstance

No matter how much effort you put in, you aren’t going to look like a magazine cover overnight, so don’t feel discouraged if you’re not seeing results immediately.

“You have to show up every day,” says Steve. “It’s not going to happen overnight.”

When you’re starting out, it can be tempting to think that if you work hard three days a week and do nothing the rest of the time, then suddenly your body will transform into one that looks like a magazine cover. But that’s not how it works, and Steve knows better than anyone just how much effort it requires to get results. “I’m 63 years old,” he says. “No matter how much effort I put in, I’m not going to look like a magazine cover overnight.”

So don’t feel discouraged if you’re not seeing results immediately—keep showing up every day no matter what, because eventually those efforts will pay off!

The person who shows up every day will progress a whole lot faster than the person who goes hard for three days a week and does nothing the rest of the time.

The person who shows up every day will progress a whole lot faster than the person who goes hard for three days a week and does nothing the rest of the time. It’s simple mathematics: if you do something every day, you’re going to see results—and since you can’t control how much you do, it’s best to focus on doing it often.

The lesson here is that if your goal is to get better at something, then showing up often may be more important than going hard and heavy when you’re there.

When you are being consistently consistent, good things will happen.

Consistency is key. You can’t just show up once in awhile and expect great things to happen. It has to be every day, no matter what. When you are being consistently consistent, good things will happen.

If you do the right things consistently over a long period of time (like a year or more), you will increase your ability at whatever it is that you are doing by a lot—a lot more than if you did the wrong thing for just one week and then quit forever.

The work that got you to where you are isn’t necessarily the same work that will get you where you want to go next.

In this section, we’ll talk about the work that got you to where you are today. We’ll also talk about the work that will get you where you want to go next.

In general, the things that got us here aren’t necessarily going to take us there. The same goes for your career and life goals: if there was one magic thing that made all the difference in your career or life goals, then everyone would do it and it wouldn’t be special anymore! In fact, often times it’s just a series of small changes over time; but they add up in ways that make all the difference in how far we go with our lives.

Keep showing up when things get tough and it feels like nothing is working.

If you want to get better, you have to show up every day. That might mean waking up an hour earlier than usual and spending that time studying or meditating. It might mean going to the gym and practicing your squat form for 30 minutes before work every morning. Whatever it is, if it’s important enough for you, then it will be worth putting in the hard work.

It’s easy to get caught up in our own pity parties and compare ourselves with others who seem more successful than us at this point in their lives—but the truth is that no two people are alike and everyone has a different story behind their success (or lack thereof). If someone else is doing well by their standards today, there’s always room for improvement tomorrow—and if someone else isn’t as successful as they would like yet again today? Tomorrow will be another opportunity for them too!

It’s better to show up and do less than it is to do nothing at all.

If you want to get better, you have to show up every day.

You can’t do less than your best and expect to see results. Your brain won’t change overnight, but it will if you consistently work with it through daily practice. It’s better to show up and do less than it is to do nothing at all.

Conclusion

You can do this. You can be better. But you have to show up and do the work every single day. And if that’s all we leave you with today, then I guess that’s okay too because it’s not like anyone is going to remember this anyway—right?