2026-10-22: I found these old writings when I was cleaning up some stuff and added them here.
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One of my favorite words is consistency. It is the one quality which has the ability to trump others and lack of it can also many a times make sure that you don't reach to a level where your other skills and character traits may be capable of leading you to.
Consistency is showing up every day regardless of whether you feel like it or not and do that work. It might be consistency in writing, reading, exercising, coding or anything else. If one consistently practices their craft on a daily basis, they sure can master it and surpass anyone in their fields.
Stop expecting radical change
One thing we must protect ourselves is from expectations of radical change. Yes radical changes are not impossible, but they generally don't sustain. People try to change many of their habits at once and succeed for some-time. Afterwards when some obstacle occurs in even a single one of those changed events it can cause the person to derail from their journey. Thus to generate lasting changes one needs to focus on small but consistent change. It is as John Maxwell said:
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
Developing Habits
Consistency helps us in developing routines which build-up momentum and in turn form our habits. The execution of these habits then becomes our second nature and takes very little (if any) effort.
Be Deliberate about Consistency
You can't just have something happen everyday and declare that you have been consistent about it. The type of consistency that helps you grow has to be deliberate. You must yourself establish that whatever happens, I will make this happen everyday.
False Estimations
Human beings are very poor in estimating things, especially their own capacities. The estimation also leaks our tendency to focus on radical changes and underestimate compounding returns of consistency.
It is famously said that,
"We always overestimate what we could get done in a year but simultaneously almost never fail to lowball ourselves as to how much we can possibly get done in a decade."
Today I would like to wrap it up here with a famous classic from kids' book:
Slow and steady wins the race.
This once again points our attention towards the fact that radical change (rabbit) has a much sharper burnout curve while consistency and starting small can be sustained for a long time.