How do you win a competition? How do you build a great business? How do you achieve success? CONSISTENCY maybe!!??
Life is actually a marathon, it was never a sprint. A sprint means a burst of speed for a short distance, achieving a great timing in that short distance but burned up all the energy, thus unable to go for another run anymore.
To achieve success, you can’t do a sprint, you have to do it the marathon way. Though I had not run in any marathon, I do run in cross country ever.
Day in, day out you do the same thing, you tell others the same thing. Continue doing what you had been doing regardless of any challenges - that is consistency.
If you are in business or want to be in business, consistency plays a huge part to your business and your life. Building a business is a long term affair, never a sprint. Rain or shine your business goes on. You don’t stop because today you don’t feel like working on your business. While you stop building your business, the world doesn’t stop for you. The rest of the world is moving, building as well.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that you can’t take a break. Of course you can rest. I would suggest an intentional rest. Meaning to say the rest day is planned. For example every Sunday is a rest day. That is consistency. For inconsistency means I rest as and when I feel like it.
Consistency applies to life and character as well. A friend who is into cars for a long time, I will consider him the expert in cars. Whenever I need advise on cars, he’s the person that I will go to. Consistency build trust. It builds your character and reputation.
When you met someone who constantly changing what he does every 3 months, what is your trust level in him? It shows a lot of character of this person, isn’t it?
Success doesn’t comes overnight. It takes years and years to build. It takes consistency to last those years.
