Why Showing Up Everyday Can Make You More Successful

As a kid, you were always woken up by either an alarm or your parent telling you to get up and "Get ready for school!". You had to eat breakfast and leave the house at a reasonable time to make it to home room. You'd then go about your day on learning new things.

Being punctual was just a major thing growing up. Even 'til this day, your job requires you to be at work on time or else you face consequences -- a scold for showing up late and if it were a persistent thing, you'd probably get a strike or even worse, fired.

Now looking at it from a bigger picture;

What do you think you've benefited from showing up everyday?

In a journal, write out 3 big tasks that you've been setting aside.

If you feel that the taks is too big, break that task down into the simplest form possible. Work from there and set a time for when that task should be done. (end of day, week, month).

If the task is completed by the end of its due date, this is you showing up.

The Beauty of Showing Up

I'm going to share 5 major lessons that I've learned throughout my years of showing up and showing up ON TIME.

Your peers respect you more. I've come to realize that if you show up even though you don't even want to, it shows character and if you think people aren't watching, you're wrong. Someone is always watching and taking note.
It helps maintain a consistent routine. Going through the motions sometimes feels complacent but what it actually does is unlock a sense of control. If you've ever ran on someone else's time, it doesn't feel good. For example, me going to college at specific class times did not allow me to go about my own schedule. This may or may not apply to you but understand that when you have more control of your schedule, you feel less overwhelmed.
You feel accomplished. Lately for the past 3 months, I've made it a goal for myself to wake up even earlier than when I used to. Since waking up at an earlier time, it helps me get ahead of my schedule and I've been completing tasks sooner.
You learn from your own mistakes. The more you're doing a new task, the easier the task becomes. Your brain will naturally allow you to perform tasks more efficient than the last time you've performed it. Making mistakes and failing is a good thing. Lean into your activities and have intention.
Everything that you plan comes into fruition. There are talkers and there are doers. I believe that it's so important to not announce your plans and just do what YOU want to do. There's no need to go about social media announcing the next big thing that you're working on all the time. Once you do the "big" thing that you've planned to do and not set it aside anymore, you're taking the right steps on completing it. Get your ass up and do the damn thing!

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