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🔍 How To Superglue Yourself To Your System
Now, what do i mean by system 🤔 guess you'll just have to read on ->
Aarushi Dubey
April 03, 2025
Hi y’all!
This month, I want to discuss a topic we all need to improve on. Consistency in working towards your goal (or should I say system, I’ll explain what that is in a bit 😉 ). So here is what I’m going to cover in my post (btw this is a long post, but it is a universal improvement for all of us 🙃):
How to Stay Committed (hint: motivation or luck is not it): We’ve been told that motivation is the key to achieving your goals, but in reality, motivation is like eating something with high sugar content (cough cough totally no experience with that). You’ll lock in until your goal is completed, but then, when you have no motivation, you’re basically at a sugar crash.
Motivation = 🍬 ✨ → but as time passes on → 📉
In this part, I’ll cover what systems are (thank you, Atomic Habits) and how to create the right one that sticks.
Now, let’s start ✨
Commitment Is A Long Word For A Reason ✍️
Alright, that may not have made perfect sense. But give me a minute. Commitment, just writing it, takes a lot of work, but it doesn’t mean you can’t do it.
When we think of the word commitment, we immediately imagine someone working on the next great thing. Whether it’s working on the cure to cancer or creating a revolutionary product, commitment to a project seems that you have to make big progress every day, constantly. The truth is the opposite. You don’t need to have big progress on something every day— that’s just a common recipe for burnout. Making big progress occasionally has no benefit, and it will just stress you out, leading to constant zero days and no progress.
💡 “Success is the product of daily habits — not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”
Even mathematically, getting better by one percent each day makes sense. This is illustrated in the graph below, where the function that illustrates one-percent progress (green) surpasses the function that illustrates expectations (blue). Exponential functions always surpass their linear counterparts (shoutout to my algebra teacher for teaching me this 👏 ). Alright, alright, I’ll stop ranting about math now.
If you want to see this visually, I created a graph of this concept on Desmos (srsly, go check out the graph I made, it’s beautiful 😊)!
In Atomic Habits, the author, James Clear, illustrates the importance of improving oneself by popularizing the concept of “The Plateau of Latent Potential“. I included more on this below 😉
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