Consistency is the key to success

Most people get enamored by the overnight success. They see someone go from rags to instant riches.

This shifts our perspective. We start to feel that the overnight success is more common than it is. We don’t realize when someone spent years working on their craft, we only see them turn into a smash hit, not the journey they took.

But in life we must value the long journey. Life is long. Sure it often seems to fly by. If we don’t realize how long it is, we get caught up in the comings and goings in life.

We slip into our routines and the days pass. We realize it is already fall when summer seemed to just start a few weeks ago.

That is why the systems and habits approach to improvement puts so much emphasis on remaining consistent. Being able to remain consistent in our approach to improvement helps solidify those actions.

Those actions become habit. Those habits form the routines in life that take us through our daily comings and goings.

If we ignore this, we can easily lose sight on improvement and fall into routines that keep life mundane. Unfortunately, when we aren’t improving certain aspects of life (health, finances, etc.), those start to degrade.

When that degradation adds up over time, it will seem to be quick, when it really took months and years.

The same pattern emerges when you use the systems and habits approach to improvement. Instead of that slow degradation, it becomes slow improvement.

When we capitalize on slow, consistent improvement, it adds up over time. Nobody notices because we aren’t the flashy overnight success.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable. Just because our attention gets pulled to the rags to instant riches story doesn’t mean that we can’t slowly build the life we desire.

We must remain patient. We need to be able to avoid the normal degradation and shift to slight improvement instead.

Life is a long journey but goes by in a flash. If there are things in life that you wish were different, start to use consistency to build the right steps that will take you towards that idea of success.

There will still be challenges. There will still be adversity. Sometimes things will change and there will be times when everything seems to be against you. But if you remain consistent in your approach to improve, you will get closer and closer.

Always remember that your life is yours. It is up to you to define what is important to you in life and then design the systems and habits in your life to get there.