3 Huge Requirements To Be Insanely Consistent
If you don’t have these, there’s no point.
There’s no secret formula for being consistent.
Oftentimes, when we’re backed into a corner of doubt and impatience, we start rationalizing all of these outlandish ways why we’re not successful at what we do.
We start blaming others and the world around us for our misfortunes. And it’s not because we’re angry at the world (even though it looks like that), we’re angry at ourselves for not getting it right after all this time.
Well, what if I told you that you’re going crazy?
With all due respect, I think you know what it takes to be consistent. You just need someone else to confirm to you what they are. You just need a little nudge in the right direction.
Here’s your nudge. Here are three huge requirements to be insanely consistent.
You have to love what you do so much that you can’t live without it.
If you’re confused about what you’re passion is, you’ll get unconfused really quickly once you start taking action every single day.
Here’s a question I’ll never stop asking people to this day: If all of your limbs got cut off and you couldn’t do X ever again, how would you feel?
You don’t feel anything?
You don’t feel terror, sadness, anger, regret, guilt, etc? Then X isn’t for you.
I’ve been in that situation not too long ago where I felt like a lost puppy with no passion to call home. So I aimlessly wandered into different professions that held promise only to find that they were just temporary shelters; fake passions that I enjoyed at the moment.
Ever since I found writing, I’ve loved every second of it. Even if there are days when I feel like there’s no point in doing it anymore — I’ll never stop.
If you don’t love what you do, you’ll never be consistent. Ever.
You can’t think about the end result.
You can’t fathom the person you’ll be if you’re successful because you’re not there yet.
It’s like one big mystery that not even those meddling kids and their dog can solve. But that’s what makes the process even more fruitful. You want to solve the puzzle right?
The best thing you can do right now is look at other people who are successful in your field and dream of having that type of impact one day. Your potential is too far away for you to think about so what else can you do besides look at other successful people and get inspired?
Um, how about work?
Your learning curve WILL get steeper. You WILL succeed if you just pay attention to your craft and keep it moving. Now I’m not telling you to work twelve hours a day.
But working on something as little as one hour a day (like I do with my writing) can skyrocket your progress with added on compound interest.
Just work on it little by little.
You have to care about getting better at it.
This goes with my previous point about loving the process.
There’s already enough fakers in the world. The last thing anyone needs is another self-proclaimed genius guru who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. In a world where people can sell overpriced, crappy makeup to millions of people without getting penalized for it, it’s important to care about getting better.
I care about getting better at writing. I don’t want to sell anyone some bullshit product they could’ve picked up at a thrift store.
If you want the quality to get better, you have to worry about your quantity and vice versa. Consistency requires quality and quality requires consistency.
If you don’t want to practice every single day, you won’t just lose the marathon, no. At this point — you’re automatically disqualified.
Final Thoughts
Consistency, consistency, consistency is all you hear from any successful person.
You hear it so much that you’re like “OK, let’s go”, then it gets to a certain point that you think they’re lying to you because nothing has happened yet.
Are those people crazy?
No, no one’s crazy over here. They had consistency and that’s something you need too. All you need is a passion, drive, and love for the process. Consistency is as simple as you think it is. You’re not crazy. You’ve been nudged.