How to be consistent
How to be consistent
Your biggest power in any thing meaningful and worthwhile comes from Power of Consistency.
Having been with some awesomely successful people and having had opportunities to observe them in very close proximity taught me exactly the same, what the original story of Tortoise and Rabbit is telling us from the time immortal.
Most successful people I have studied were consistent, patient and focused on long term impact. Their major focus was for winning the war rather than few battles. In fact, they let go of few battles in order to build momentum in the right direction.
I was addicted to the adrenaline that flows with ultra-fast driving, and as a result thereof got heavily fined by cops, but I found that even if I am driving at 120km/hour and those who were driving at say 80km/hour and whom I overtook, many managed to reach me at the next signal or the next break I took.
How many of you think about and how many of you spend your time, money, energies and efforts for
1.Instant weight loss
2.Instant name, fame, recognition
3.Becoming rich fast
4.Be the first in class without the mandatory inputs of time, effort, understanding, practice etc
5. Having that great figure or Hollywood actress beauty
6. Being happy and succeeding overnight
How many of you want success, results, changes fast, real fast in all aspects of your life.
Most people especially this generation are programmed by our society and education and the reality shows, to do things fast.
Wanting things/results/success/happiness fast actually does opposite.
The greatest problem with going fast is that for how long the machine [or yourself in life] can run at 150km/hour, before it gets heated up and needs refueling and recharge.
On the contrary going fast burns out your ability to run for longer duration.
Great Athletes follow the laws of consistency.
Financial wizards and fitness expert have always maintained that regular disciplined monthly investments and regular exercise routine of 30 minutes a day is always a big scorer in long run.
If you can please read "I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi" , "Common Sense on Mutual Funds by Jack Bogle", "The Millionaire Next Door" or books by globally acclaimed hall of fame athletes.
Warren Buffet is at the forefront of propagating this principle, incidentally as claimed by few articles, Warren Buffet made 99% of his money after the age of 60.
Intellectuals tend to spend more time imagining the future. They let the results that they have to accomplish and the obstacles overwhelm and intimidate them from being consistent.
Few so called Dumb people keep on moving, focusing on the regular and deal with the futures and obstacles as and when they come.
This is another reason for not being able to be consistent or giving up, which comes from being too much focus on the outcomes [to let them get overwhelmed by the magnanimity of the tasks or challenges] rather than on the process and actions.
How many of you have let go of opportunities for growth or even failed to continue with many important tasks/resolutions that later became severe pain in your life, because of inconsistency.
How many of you started with great passion for exercising, reducing weight options, actions for changing habits and attitude but fell back to your old routine, very soon.
I was the model of creating time-table for studies, but if anything, even very small deviation happened from my perfect time-table then I did not follow it for that day & you know it never happened that everything that I planned as per my time-table actually happened.
This perfectionism is another of the major challenges of being consistence.
Now how many of your parents said [and probably you are saying to your own kids], if you study regularly, you would do very well without stress.
I never really studied until the moment it could not be postponed further.
Have you ever wondered how some people achieve phenomenal amount of amounts of success, while most of us work harder and harder yet achieve very little.
This is another well-established myth that derails us, many times by telling us that, Only by working hard consistently You can get you that result/success/outcome.
Of course, hard work is required for anything worthwhile, but it is not only that.
To convince yourself for the Power of Consistency, please Identify a skill that you good at like playing instrument, dancing, cooking, a different language. Did you learn it overnight or within few days. No way.
If you are real good at anything it would have taken you maybe weeks and months and even years and you developed it because you practiced, failed, started again did that regularly.
What is then being consistent or consistency
1.Understand that in your success many factors like, intelligence, having big passionate dreams, maybe even luck – but the most important ingredient is taking the right actions consistently
2.Understand that being consistent happen if you form the habit of operating from discipline, dedication and committed action taking
3.Consistency is about building small empowering habits and rituals that you partake in every single day that keep you focused on your highest priorities and goals.
4.It your ability to hold yourself accountable for the daily choices you make without any excuse, blame and complains
5.To be consistent means to focus on the present moment while maintaining a long-term view that helps you measure your results and the impact of your daily actions
6.Consistency all about repetition. Repeating the same actions those which are effective and builds up the pathways towards your ultimate big picture
7.Habit of consistency isn't about obtaining quick results. It's rather about making incremental progress and improvements over an extended period of time
8.Consistency-in-action is not purely about repetition. It's rather about evolution and about learning, growing and adapting your actions in away that can help us lead to greater rewards
9.To be consistent means understanding that the greatest power lies in the present moment
10.Typically success in any field of endeavor initially requires that we commit ourselves to taking consistent daily action for next-to-no-reward
How to achieve massive amount of success on a regular basis
1.Become aware of your thought process, if you catch yourself thinking too much about the future, stop. Just focus on the next step forward
2.Set crazy, big, outrageous goals. Plan well working backwards from the final big picture to the daily action steps but once done, don't spend too long thinking about how to get there
3. Why People Struggle with Consistency4.They find it difficult to stay consistent because they can't shut themselves off or handle distractions
5.Most of us, if we don't get immediate results from our actions, don't see any reason with continuing with those actions anymore.
6.Create specific and realistic goals
7.Create a schedule for yourself
8.Place reminders around your home, workspace, and belongings
9.Never Make promises make commitments
10.Reward yourself when you get something done
11.Even if you make a mistake keep going do not give up
12.Plan for how you would handle your mistakes, setbacks and failures
13.Understand that Consistency is not the synonymous of perfection, meaning If you miss a day at the gym or fail to read your child a book at night, encourage yourself to start again the very next day
14.Take time off to recharge
15.Enroll mentors and support group
16.Find things that motivate you like maybe gardening, trekking, watching videos of unusual people listening to great motivators
17.Hold yourself accountable
18.Be patient, it takes time to see the visible change
19.Create boundaries in your personal relationships, read my blog on this
20.Build your willpower, read my blog if will power does not work what to do
21.Create ritual for when you are at the peak of energy and clarity for doing the most toughest and essential tasks
22.Use your will power in miserly way to Do those things that you like but have to be done
23.Take complete ownership for taking actions and following process not the outcomes and results
24.Identify and do what you love
25.Use reminders in your environment
30.Do not force yourself, instead find ways to like what you want to do
31.Make a conscious decision to remain consistent.
32.Mange your energy, read my blog on this
33.Do one thing at a time
34.Just do it, even if you do not feel like it, till you get that refreshing second wind
35.Identify your highest priorities and junk what are non-essential
36.Be lazy, read my blog on this
37.Identify and work out a plan to counter all the various distractions and counterproductive tasks that could divert you from what's most important
38. Maintaining a Steady Focus – read my article for additional DIY tips on focus39.Take short breaks of only a few minutes in between your focus-time
40. Understand the power of doing things for small time in a long term
I. The Power of Reading 30 Minutes every Day can make you read maybe 10 book in a year
II. Investing small amount every month from the time you start earning can make you a millionaire before you even think of retirement, read my two blogs on creating wealth
III. How just 30 minutes exercise can keep you healthy for life
41.Exercise, breath and Practice meditation
42.Sleep well
43.Eat healthy
44.Invest in your important relationships
45.Create Balance between your social, personal, family and professional life
52.Understand Doing is better than planning
53. Identify few role-models draw Inspiration from them 54.Self-Discipline is internal because Discipline is Freedom, instead of what is widely believed that discipline is restricting and confining
55.Practice Gratitude
56.Be Honest with Yourself and don't beat yourself for mistakes, accept them and move on
57.Identify your core values and practice Integrity
58.Start slow then gradually advance
59.Slowly Stop relying on motivation
60.Don't start behavior patterns, actions that you are aware, you can't maintain. If you can't keep it up, don't set the expectation.
61.Don't pretend to love anything that falls outside of the realm of your natural behavior. If you hate outdoor sports, don't feign an interest for his sake.
Read the popular [taken from internet]
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
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