The highlights that we see everywhere on TV and social media are not what leads to success. They are the end product. Sports, business, lifestyle, everything. All we see are the highlights.
This is the procrastinator’s dream. Intense action leads to awesome fame and riches! Right? RIGHT!? Wrong.
But it doesn’t. Intense action leads to desperation and pain while you wonder how your life is slipping away.
High performers are the product of consistent action (which naturally leads to moments of intense action) rather than just doing moments of intense action and trying to sustain that–spoiler: you can't sustain that energy.
You think you can cram all that studying and paper writing into the last 30 hours before a paper is due. It’s an awful way to live–even if you get that paper finished.
Consistent action every day feels amazing and is incredibly effective. It naturally leads to the “highlight” moments that you see everywhere.
Start simple, do that simple thing every day for 30 days, and commit to consistently doing that action every single day rather than doing it intensely.
Too much intensity early in a habit-building phase will make it impossible to build better behavior. Let the intensity build naturally. For now, just work on consistency! Every day. Every day. Every day.