A lot of people find persistence to be a difficult thing to cultivate. If people feel like they’re struggling to understand or perform a task, they might give up, but the only way to create a new path is to craft it yourself. The book you’ve always wanted to write and the exercise program that you’ve been thinking about will only happen if you make a consistent effort to do them, but why does it have to be consistent? In the next page or two you’ll find a discussion on the importance of consistency.
Get Connected to Your Desires
It takes a lot of thought and planning to get to a goal, but if you’re allowing a lot of things to cloud your mind it might be really hard to do any of that. You might have a lot of negative self-talk that happens in the quiet moments by yourself. The strategy here, would be to start taking specific control of thoughts during those times.
Actively tell yourself that you don’t have time to consider those things at the time you have allocated for getting thinking done. If these thoughts persist, it’s a good idea to take time to learn some meditation techniques. During this process, you can also seek out activities that make you feel some kind of excitement or inspiration. That could be in the form of a new hobby like learning a new instrument, or it can just be a new skill that helps you work more efficiently.
Take an Honest Look at Your Consistency
In the grand scheme of things, a large portion of people use more of their time-consuming the work of others instead of moving forward with their own. With things like journaling, the benefit is more perceivable when you’ve been keeping up with the journal. That’s the only way to get a clear and more complete view of the ways that you spend your time, react in various situations, and how behaviors can change or stay the same over a period.
Without the consistent collection of information, it’s a lot harder to make determinations about your choices because the story isn’t complete. It’s essential to create the space and time that is needed to make journaling a habit that you are ready to carry out every day. If you feel like you’re missing days, then you might even want to write that down, and create a plan that allows you to work up to journaling on a daily basis. During that process, you want to spend some time reflecting on being grateful as well. That will help you to attach positive feelings toward your process.
Identify Obstacles You’ve Created
The fear of failure or success can be a really strange thing. Fear of changes like these can make people carry out all sorts of bizarre behaviors. One of the primary ones you see with people who are trying to achieve things is that they create obstacles for themselves in different ways. It’s important to discover what those are and prevent them from happening.
Frequency Is Better Than Binges
Practicing a new skill is great, but the way you practice makes all the difference. It can be hard to be consistent, so it’s natural to feel that if you spend a bunch of extra time working on it one day, that you’ll get caught up, but it turns out that frequent revisiting seems to have better results than just spending a lot of time doing something every so often.
Persistence Can Create a Great Business
If you look into the recent past, you’ll find that a lot of figures who have seen massive successes have nearly all had similar types of experiences. At some point early in their career they were faced with some difficult obstacles that they needed to face, but persistence won the day. These obstacles were difficult, but something in them made them want to keep going instead of stop, and this is usually the faith that they can succeed.
Sticking to their goals showed people around them how serious they were, and the little positive things that came their way showed them that they were on the right path to achieve their success. Entire entertainment and product industries have been built on this strange power that comes from the belief in success. There are a lot of people who would like to be the leader, but not a lot of people who want to do the work that takes them to that place. If you want people to believe in you and your ideas, then you first have to believe in yourself.
Persistence Can Inspire Others
When you’re focused on your work and completing things, the surrounding people are likely to notice. That can have a good effect on people when they begin to realize that some things they want to do are actually within reach. That can have a powerful effect on the surrounding community. Sometimes the simple act of sharing knowledge can make a huge difference for someone.
Be consistent in journaling, reaching for your goals and working toward success. You can do whatever you put your mind to.
Good Luck!
Pamela
