Consistency with your work is important. It gives you momentum, improves responsibility, and it keeps you from having to constantly start over. It’s the wheels that make your vehicle move. It pushes your goal into achievement.
Being consistent gives you momentum. Having momentum helps us move forward and grow at a steady pace. Everything is going in the direction it’s supposed to go. Once you pause, or stop, things begin to drag. It’s hard to build that force back up to where you had it going. That’s why it’s called being consistent – you do it in the same way everyday and you can see the growth in your goal. Consistency gives you something to measure your work with. You won’t be able to get a good picture of how things are going if you’re not consistent. There needs to be a reliable way of measuring your progress and being consistent provides that.
Consistency is also good for irresponsible people, because it makes them practice how to be more responsible. When you’re responsible, you show that you are mature and dependable. There’s something magical about doing things in a rhythm, while developing your goal. The fact that you do good work, regularly, is amazing in itself, because a lot of people give up before they finish. The moment you miss something, that one step that you normally do everyday, you will notice. No matter how small it is, it may throw everything off, simply because you weren’t consistent. Being consistent holds you accountable for doing what needs to be done everyday. It improves your ability to be more responsible with your work an creates a strong foundation for the goal you’re in the process of achieving.
Everyone has been in a situation where something happens and you have to start over. No one likes having to do everything all over again. When you’re consistent, you’re always moving forward. People will start on a goal and they’ll stop because they were tired or because they felt they weren’t making any progress. Months, and sometimes years, will go by and then they’ll want to start again, on the same goal. At that point, you have to start over and regain the momentum that you lost. Who wants to keep starting over? It’s like when someone goes on a diet and they eat junk food one day. Then they let it go on to the next day and so on. After a while, they want to lose weight again, but now, they have to start over. Don’t allow one thing to shut down your plan. Keep going.
Consistency has a great deal to do with how your work will turn out. When you first start anything, it seems like you’ll never get there – the picture looks too big. After being consistent and working at it day by day, months later, it all comes together nicely. Like a puzzle, you won’t see the entire picture until you’re done, but you first have to put the small pieces together. Once that’s done, you’ll be proud of the masterpiece you’ve created.