Chris Mance II - Mental Skills Coach

Bouncing back from a bad day does not happen by chance. If you leave it to chance a bad day can easily snowball into a bad week, a bad week can turn into a bad month, and a bad month can lead to a bad year. So, bouncing back from a bad day is the same process as coming back from a bad year. That process starts and ends with establishing and staying consistent with a daily routine.

A daily routine is nothing more than a commitment to do very specific things each day to move the needle on specific goals. Establishing a routine takes more than just writing down what you will do on any given day. That’s just the first step. Routine building is just like strength building. Just like discipline doesn’t make you stronger, discipline doesn’t make you follow your routine.

Bouncing Back from Bad Days, Weeks, Months and Years

First, you must have clear and concise goals. Moreover, your goals must provide you with the self-motivation to act on them daily. For a goal to fit this description, it must be broken down into small, short-term, attainable goals only difficult enough to push you slightly out of your comfort zone. Any goal that is too large or too difficult won’t provide you with motivation, and as a result will likely go unachieved.

Second, the more routines you have related to your goals, the more likely you will achieve those goals. So instead of having to constantly decide on what to do next, you decide once on a set of routines and just execute repeatedly until you reach your goal.

However, this leads to the question what is the process for creating a daily routine for your goals? I recommend a 6-step process.

1. Break down the activities or skills required to progress towards your goals into 3 or 4 essentials. An essential is a skill or activity that is absolutely necessary or extremely important to the process of making progress.
2. Identify what correlates directly with these essentials that you either enjoy or because it’s effortless (your strengths).
3. Identify what correlates directly with these essentials that you don’t enjoy or it’s too difficult (your weaknesses).
4. Create a daily routine that incorporates one or more of your strengths from #2.
5. Create three different weekly routines you can do on three different days that leverage your strengths from #2 in a way that helps you overcome the most essential weakness from #3.
6. Finally, create a monthly routine to measure progress, get feedback from outside mentors, and adjust course.

If you would like to know more about my 14-day virtual coaching program to help you develop a routine based on these steps, please contact me here to learn more.