If someone asks me what is the secret path to success, I definitely answer consistency. There is magic in the art of consistency. The weapon that unlocks the path to growth, new opportunities, and innovation and turns your dreams into reality. Undoubtedly, every soft skill has its own magic, but the one thing that holds more power to improve those skills is consistency.
Imagine consistency is the main ingredient of any dish. Let’s unlock the power of consistency through this article.
How does consistency benefit you?
Being consistent makes you more creative and innovative. To stay consistent in anything is itself an art. By being consistent in your tasks and work, you can achieve your goals. Let’s discuss how consistency helps you to be better:
1. It Creates Momentum
While working on a task, It is better to work thirty minutes per day rather than six hours a week. Consistency helps to create momentum in any work. Momentum here refers to the concept of an object staying in motion.
Consistency is all about working in a continuous flow every day.
2. It Enhances Creativity
Consistency increases your creativity. When you’re working and trying regularly, you will get new and innovative ideas, which boosts your creativity.
3. It Improves your Skills
Being consistent increases your skills. For example, if you are learning to play piano and you are taking class daily, no matter if it is for fifteen or twenty minutes, you will eventually get better with time, and your skills will improve.
4. Boost productivity
When tasks become habitual, they become easy for us to complete. This saves time and energy and helps to boost your productivity. You will get more time to follow your other tasks or your hobbies, which will make you happy and positive. Happiness is the essential ingredient to boost productivity.
How Inconsistency Affects Your Success Negatively?
You may not see it thoroughly, but inconsistency affects you negatively. It hampers your goals and reduces your productivity. When you are inconsistent with the work, it creates stress, and you may lose some good opportunities. Growth comes from regular efforts. Without consistency, your skills may not be improved. It also makes people trust you less and less depending on you in any task.
Why It Becomes Difficult To Be Consistent?
Now, the question is why people find it hard to be consistent. When we do the same task every day, we get bored, and this is the point where most of us fail; we leave the task and start procrastinating. Here are some points that affect your consistency.
1. Procrastination: This topic is always on top when it’s related to incomplete tasks. Procrastination is the enemy of consistency. Most people are inconsistent because of procrastination. You remember the poem by Robert Frost,’ The Road Not Taken.’ The theme is about making choices, and when it comes to choosing between procrastination and consistency, most of us choose the easy way: Procrastination.
2. Boredom: As a fan of psychology, the patterns of human thinking excite me very interestingly. When doing something repeatedly, it makes us bored. People try to find things that are easy and fun to do, but not everything is fun.
3. Lack of Interest: You want to learn boxing, and your parents send you to crochet classes. How does that sound? Will you give your full efforts? No, Sometimes the reason behind inconsistency is a lack of interest.
4. Consistent Failure: Sometimes, the reason for inconsistency is a consistent failure. When people keep on failing, they might get negative and leave the task in the middle.
Tips to be Consistent
Now we know the importance of consistency and how inconsistency negatively affects you, and it’s time to discuss how to be consistent.
1. Discipline: Discipline is the key to being more consistent. Taking small steps daily will lead to big results. Make a schedule for yourself to follow and track your habits.
2. Set realistic goals: It becomes easy to work on the task when you have a clear goal. The clearer the goals are, the easier they become to achieve. Set the bars that you can achieve. Having high expectations may lead to burnout and frustration, which will make you inconsistent.
3. Appreciate Yourself: Don’t forget to make time to appreciate and reward yourself. When you achieve something, no matter how small or big, it is important to take some time to reward yourself. This will keep you motivated.
4. Be open to Challenges: Every day will not go as you planned. Sometimes, things may get tough, and challenges may arise, but being open to challenges will help you to be consistent.
5. Positive Mindset: Keeping a positive mindset will help you tackle challenges and keep you consistent. By being mindful, you can become more positive and self-aware of yourself.
6. Take a break: Taking a break will help you to avoid burnout. Taking a break does not mean to stop the work. It means getting good rest when needed.
7. Practice Meditation: Meditation will help to stay calm and relax. Doing meditation will increase your focus and keep your mind healthy.
8. Start with Small Steps: Start with tiny steps. For example, use the 5-minute rule. If things get hard to continue, give 5 minutes daily to do the task, whether you are enjoying it or not. These small steps will lead to making a habit of consistency.
Conclusion
Being consistent is the key to success. It is a habit or choice, not something you get naturally or as a gift. It takes daily efforts to be consistent on a path. Most importantly, don’t forget to appreciate yourself; when you are consistent, you deserve positive words.
Success is not an overnight journey, so choose a routine and be consistent on your path.
