Summary
- Nothing is more important than consistency in pursuit of any goal in life.
- It is your consistence and commitment to your goal, not necessarily intensity that that will bring victory. Intensity is only good is accompanied by consistency.
- One key enemy of success is bad habits that we often struggle to get rid of.
Some years ago, I was introduced to a gym by a friend. On the first day I did some good workout that impressed even the coach.
However,
the following day I had difficulties waking up, walking, even laughing.
Every part of my body that could ache was aching. So, I stayed away
from the gym for about four days to recover. When I showed up the fifth
day, my coach looked at me at told me that if I wanted to get benefits
from the gym consistency is more important than intensity.
As
I reflected on his simple advice, I discovered actually it’s not in the
gym only where consistence is king. In business and in almost all
aspects of our lives we need consistency more than intensity to get
quality results and breakthrough.
In school we were
told that it is not reading overnight when exams are near the corner
that makes a student excel in exams. It is studying consistently
throughout the term.
Finance experts tell us that we
can improve our financial wellness by saving consistently, however
small amount rather than saving a large amount of money sporadically.
In business we generally invite mediocre performance when do what need to be done so well but irregularly.
Processes
like customer care, prospecting, sales and marketing are supposed to be
done regularly and consistently to get results.
Every
time when you find things are not working well in your business or life
you need to find out one or few things that if done consistently would
turn around your situation.
Most of the time you find
your enterprise is shaking because of a crack or weakness in one key
pillars. It could be your sales promotion, your prospecting, your
product development or spending habits that need to be given a
consistent attention.
Right away if you paused and
asked yourself one question and answered it right you can easily change
your life in a way that can only be described as miraculously. The
question is: What is the one consistent thing or behaviour that I know
that if I implemented it consistently it could lead to a breakthrough in
my business or life?
Basically, it does not need to be
a mega thing. It could be as simply as writing two pages daily for
those who aspire to be authors; making few sales calls per day, saving a
little amount of money every month, praying daily for spiritual health
or observating a healthy lifestyle daily.
Nothing is
more important than consistency in pursuit of any goal in life. It is
your consistence and commitment to your goal, not necessarily intensity
that that will bring victory. Intensity is only good is accompanied by
consistency.
One key enemy of success is bad habits
that we often struggle to get rid of. The only known cure for bad habits
is to replace them with good habits which must be practised
consistently until they become part of your character.
Mr Kiunga is a business trainer and the author of The 7 Pillars of Financial Success. murorikiunga@yahoo.com
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