How to Maintain Consistency; The Key to Achieving Success
Maintaining consistency in any given area is tough. Even though we’ve heard people say that it is the key to success, sometimes we all get stuck or lack the motivation to be consistent.
If you think about it staying consistent looks very simple on the surface but there are too many distractions that can keep you away from being focused, committed or disciplined enough to stick with it.
“Keeping possibilities alive requires a consistency of thought and focus.” ― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
One problem I’ve realized people struggle with is the desire to obtain quick results. So instead of making steady progress and improvement over a period of time, we stop continuing because we don’t get immediate results from our actions.
Becoming consistent means fully committing and engaging in completing a task, goal or activity without disruption. Professionally or personally whatsoever you want to achieve in life, you have to show up each and every day and practice to become a master.
Your life is your responsibility. You call the shots and make all the choices to get what you want. Therefore it is important to hold yourself accountable for the choices you make without complaints or excuses.
“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.” ― Anthony Robbins
Develop habits and routines that you can perform daily to keep you focused on your priorities and goals. In other words, consistency is about the repetition of your actions over and over again and getting the discipline of habit which gets you closer to achieving your goal.
The great thing is that when you focus on being consistent, your able to measure your results and the impact of your daily actions. You get to see what is working and what isn’t. This, in turn, helps you to learn from your failures and mistakes allowing you to adjust or change your course of action accordingly and stay on track towards your goal.
“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.” ― E. James Rohn
When you gain the momentum of being consistent your productivity increases significantly. You’re motivated to keep going and do better every time. As a result, your confidence is raised and you become more assertive and self-assured in the decisions you make.
We all want to be consistent whether in dieting, exercising, parenting, investing, employment or running a business. However, the key ingredient to the success of any field of endeavour is Consistency.
At the end of the day, you need to have discipline, focus, patience and take actions to maintain consistency and reach high levels of achievement.
