LET’S TALK ABOUT CONSISTENCY BABY

 

Hi guys, welcome back to my blog. If you are new here, welcome, and if you are an old reader, whoop whoop! I’ll think of something else, please.

Now back to why I called this meeting. Let’s talk about the C-word.

Consistency (read this as a whisper)

That word.

What is the hack because I can’t seem to figure it out

How do you stick at a goal without chasing after every butterfly that comes your way? How do you say no to the tempting offers from procrastination and giving up? How do you keep working while yawning?

If you know the tea, please spill it because we have dreams to achieve. Time no dey (there is no time).

It is easy to go from day one to day five, but for me, day six is when it begins to fall apart (take this in whichever way that you may)

I have abandoned projects only to pick them up years later as if nothing happened.

I think that here is where I issue a disclaimer that if you clicked on this looking for help, I apologize. Like you, I am equally perplexed by this phenomenon.

I can, however, share things that I have done to last longer than six days at my tasks.

1. I try hard not to schedule it. I have celebrated Fridays consistently on my WhatsApp status for over a year. It started as something fun to do, and then it became a thing. One thing that has helped is that I look for my posts when I am scrolling through Pinterest. I don’t purposely go there with that in mind, but as I go about my normal scrolling, I also see things about Friday, which I pin. So, on Fridays, I go to my Friday board and download the picture for the day. No pressure. I don’t even think about it the day before. As soon as I realize that it is Friday, I search for a post and post.
2. The more perfect I want something to be, the more I procrastinate and end up not doing it. When I started writing blog posts again earlier this year, I decided not to focus on making it perfect, but I just wrote as much as I could, left it to breathe, and edited it later. That way, the time spent writing was significantly reduced, and it was easier for me to start.
3. I have realized, lately, that I calculate how much time it would take to perform tasks before I do them. I don’t know how that started, but here we are. If I realized that it would take more time than I was ready to spend, I wouldn’t do it. The upside to discovering this is that I can now stop myself when I start doing that and do whatever I want to do.
4. The more I say “I have to…” the more I don’t do it. It then becomes a chore that I keep on reminding myself that I have to do. What has worked well is just doing whatever I have to do as soon as I remember to do it, and yea.

Even with all these discoveries, I still can’t seem to get the hang of the C-word. What do you do to stay consistent? Help us because our lack of consistency is literally holding us back.