Go 10 for 11 !!! It's better than 1 for 1

I know % wise it’s not but I think we get too caught up with streaks and perfection. We hear people say that they’ve done something 10, 20, 100 or 1000 days in a row or that they don’t ever miss a day of doing something and we think that that’s the standard we have to meet.

I used get on streaks of doing something and be feeling pretty good about myself and then for whatever reason I would break the streak. And I would give up. I felt like I had to start all over again and the longer the streak I was on, the more crushed my spirit would be about it. Before I knew it, I was pursuing an opposing streak of not doing it.

At a certain point, I realized that I still had a streak going, it was just a 9 out of 10 day streak or a 2 weeks in a row streak or whatever else. I could make it a 10 out of 11 day streak which could lead to 19 out of 20, 29 out of 30 and so on. And even if I missed a couple more days, that’s fine. Doing something 27 out of 30 days is still pretty good.

We aren’t perfect and we’re going to have setbacks. Don’t let those setbacks send you all the way back though. If you go from 9 out of 9 to 9 out of 10, that’s fine! Make it 10 out of 11! And if you go 9 out of 11 . .. thats fine too! Just make it 10 out of 12. It’s OK.