I learnt about consistency from my diary

 We all have heard the quote “consistency is the key to success” once in our lifetime. Being consistent is difficult and requires a lot of focus on your work along with all the problems you face in your daily life. 

Sometimes we don’t feel like working!! 

Sometimes we are self pityingly exhausted …... 

Or else we just procrastinate and hope we do it next time...which of Course if does not have any deadline will never work out for you. 

The thing is, for anything you want to achieve or dream of needs a lot of focus, effort, time, and of course demanding work. But even after having somehow passed all these hurdles on our way to heaven we unfortunately fail sometime or to be precise most of the time. 

Then we start to feel envy about every person who once went through all of this that you have faced but the only difference is that they succeeded in this journey and are termed as ‘lucky birds’ by people like us. 

But we never thought about the number of low blows they faced in this journey but kept flowing along the way, this is something we call being consistent for your goal. 

Let me explain to you with an example of my daily diary entries the so-called journaling that we say. 

I started two years back with one day just to write about something which I didn’t want to share with anyone. It turned out that I loved sharing my thoughts and days like this and since then I have consistently been writing for the past two years. The best part is I can reflect upon life and my past at any point from any day. 

This is what see from the one end of any happy and successful journey, how easy it looks like when we read about it and at least once it comes to our mind “God it's not really that hard to keep up with, it is definitely my cup of tea.”  

But what we don’t see are the days when I wanted to procrastinate and would have told myself “Surely I will write from the next day.” 

How many times I wanted to dose off but kept patience till I am finished with writing. Now imagine doing this for 2 years of your life, 2 years in which many of the days were pathetic and sad, many times you felt shit about yourself but still wrote about it. 

This is the simplest example for keeping up with your work or hobby and being consistent for extended periods of time. 

As Dwayne Johnson says “Success is not always about greatness. It is about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. “