BRX Pro Tip: Why Dailyish is Better Than Daily
Stone Payton: Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips, Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, we have a new word here around the Business RadioX Network, and it’s not daily, it’s daily-ish.
Lee Kantor: Yeah. Daily-ish is a concept I’m trying to get going. It’s a habit I have where I set goals for myself, or I like to have tasks for myself that I do every day, and for me, every day usually gets more things done than, you know, every other day or a few times a week. Daily-ish kind of gives me some grace. Daily-ish means that I intend to do this every day, but I’m not going to kind of obsess about it or beat myself up if I miss a day because something happened, life happened.
Lee Kantor: And what I found is that when I set rigid every single day goals, it makes me feel bad when I don’t do it, or I’ll cheat to do a half-assed version of it, so that kind of was stressing me out and I was actually getting burned out because of that, because if I missed a day, I would feel bad about myself.
Lee Kantor: Daily-ish to me means just be consistent. You want to do this every day. You want to be relentless when it comes to certain activities. But you have to be flexible because, like I said earlier, life is going to happen, things are going to happen that you can’t control. And this way you’re focused really on the progress without really focusing in on the perfection. And perfectionism is not a good strategy over the long term.
Lee Kantor: So, this kind of daily-ish concept, it helps you build and create the habits you need to succeed, but you don’t have that pressure of never missing or keeping that streak alive forever. So, you’re going to be able to have the momentum, but it’s okay to skip a day here or there.
Lee Kantor: But daily-ish does mean daily-ish. It doesn’t mean weekly-ish. It doesn’t mean monthly-ish. It doesn’t mean annually-ish. So, it’s something that you really have to focus in on doing the work pretty much every day, but not every day.
