Heyyy. Welcome to another issue on Self help? Nah. Self Bash, Self Pick-up.
Today is about inconsistency and this issue will be short. I've not been in the right mental space to write, writer's block, but I wrote nonetheless.
I'm so consistent at being inconsistent.
You see, I'm the most inconsistent person you'll meet in your existence. No, don't shake your head, I mean it. I assure you, you will not meet anybody who beats me at being inconsistent. I don't think it's possible.
Inconsistency is really just one of the products of sloth and procrastination. You keep putting off things to do at a later time and soon you find that the pattern your earlier discipline had created has been destroyed.
It all starts with snoozing my alarm, to muttering to myself, “I'll do this later” to finally waking up the next three days and I'm like, “Damn, I really haven't done this still. I'll do it later today.”
And honestly, can I say, inconsistency is shameful. For someone who says she's shameless, my inconsistency always finds a way to remind me that I can be shamed.
The most painful kind of shame is the one you shame yourself. For me, it's not the one others shame me, it's the one I shame myself that hits most and probably, that's why I achieve more whenever it happens. (I really should start shaming myself more, in a healthy way of course.)
I've battled with inconsistency and procrastination, because they work hand in hand, for a long time. Maybe that is why I never really finish most of the things I start. I usually abandon them halfway and move unto the next without batting an eyelash. Funny enough, I used to be like this with books too. No matter how crappy they were (to me) I always stayed to finish it but these days, yeah no. Once I read the first three pages and it doesn't hit, I automatically assume it never will. Same with movies.
Anyways, all I'm here to say is, please be consistent.
“If you show up everyday, you'll never miss a lucky day.” I know it sounds a bit yahoo-y, it's not a lie tho. Consistency builds your tower, one brick a time. Just like cutting down a tree, if a tree is to fall the 100th time it is hit, you'll never have it down if you stopped at the 99th hit. You get me? You have to show up everyday and strike it.
I'm speaking to both of us now. We have to learn discipline and if you already have, fine. (I'm alone in this, I guess.)
I need to learn discipline. Infact, I'll learn it tomorrow.
I'm kidding but yeah. That's all I have to say. Be consistent so you don't miss a lucky day.
Byeeee and thank you for reading up to this extent. It means a lot to me. I'll see you in my next issue!
XO, Jess.