I think the most important part of achieving consistency is detaching yourself from the outcome of each individual work session, whatever that might be. Here are some example ‘work sessions’ from my life:

• A particular workout
• Releasing a song
• Releasing a blog post
• Doing a stream
• Making a youtube video

Attaching yourself to the outcome (e.g. number of views) will only set you up for failure, since inevitably one of the work sessions will ‘flop’.

To detach yourself from individual outcomes, you have to love the long-term journey of whatever you’re doing. The absolute most important part is simply being there, day after day, week after week, over a long period of time.

This can be compressed down to “Showing Up = Winning”.

If you can reframe the requirement for “winning” from “getting a lot of views” or “breaking my personal record” to simply “I showed up”, you give yourself a massive psychological advantage.

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P.S. One extra tip:

An extra tip for the creatives: Reframe each release as another piece of progress in building your large public body of work. It may not be today, but someday, your large public body of work will make it all happen for you — and every release is a step towards that, no matter how “well” it does.

P.S. another tip

Establish the habit by simply doing the activity at the same time each week/day and scheduling your life around that as much as possible. Ideally find a time slot with the least contention against other things that come up.

For streaming, I found that Sunday afternoons was usually free and didn’t compete too much against other plans.

But the “scheduling your life around it” is where the rubber really meets the road. That’s where you prove to yourself that you consider this a high priority to you by putting your time where your mouth is.