Counterpoint: People with the Healthiest Habits Don’t Care About Perfection
The biggest misconception of those who have the healthiest habits is that they are nearly perfect. There is a belief that these admirable people don’t have bad days. From the outside looking in it appears that people who have good habits maintain a strict routine and never get off track. As much as it may seem this way, this is absolutely not reality.
The truth is everybody has bad days, even the people we admire most. What’s more, believing that some people are infallible and you are not is an easy way to excuse yourself from not working on improving your own habits.
The fact is those who develop good habits understand that having a strict routine is not the end all be all. Routines have streaks, and streaks end. Instead of focusing on the routine, focus on increasing the length of your routine streak. This means that your ability to build good habits really only depends on your ability to keep trying to build good habits. Which in turn implies not letting one or more bad days discourage you from continuing onward with starting a new routine streak.
In a word, persistence. That’s it.