“Small disciplines repeated with consistency everyday lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.” – John C. Maxwell
If you want to have success in reaching your goals, whatever those goals are, you need to be consistent. Being consistent in the things you do has many great advantages and people who consciously practice being consistent, know it! So, if you’re serious about change in any area of your life, you need to be constantly and regularly performing good habits.
By doing that, you’ll find whatever you’re looking to achieve will take off to a higher level. Of course, being consistent isn’t easy. You’ll naturally tend to come up with all kinds of excuses, especially if the consistent action you need to take is very uncomfortable to do. Just remember that the most growth lies outside of your comfort zone.
The Need to Be Consistent
Another killer of consistency is distractions. You can become distracted by losing focus of your long-term goals. That’s because we usually tend to live for short term results. When you don’t see results right away, you end up giving up on being consistent. It’s an easy trap to fall into and it’s unfortunate. So often people will give up just before a big breakthrough.
You have to look at consistency as small steps of improvement for an extended period of time that will lead you to big results. It’s the most well-known mindset of successful individuals. It will take practice and patience, but even the slightest improvements when given enough time will take you to a whole other level. That’s the power of being consistent!
“Consistency is one of the biggest factors in leading to accomplishment and success.” – Byron Pulsifer
Consistency plays such a huge role when it comes to achieving any type of success. So, I’m sure you can imagine that consistency is a key factor in the area of your finances too. Your money habits are formed based on how you constantly handle your money, from saving to spending. As simple as that sounds, you might not have considered how consistency affects different parts of your life.
As with any habits, money habits can also be good or bad. So, in order for you to achieve financial freedom you obviously need to be consistent with good money habits. Good money habits don’t just have to do with saving money. It also has to do with how you spend your money. Let’s face it, if you’re not consistently saving money, then it’s obvious that you’re consistently spending it.
It’s the consistency you have with both of those things that will determine your financial success. Being consistent in saving money is obvious, because you know consistently putting a certain amount of money aside for retirement, emergencies, vacation, etc. is a good habit. You can also be consistent with not saving money, making it a bad habit.
How you consistently spend your money is just as important and often times overlooked. Are you consistently frugal or consistently careless with your spending? You need to make sure you’re building good overall money habits and use the power of consistency to get there. The longer you practice consistency, the more automatic it becomes. That’s what’s great about being consistent!
“It’s not what we do once—it’s what we do once a day…day in and day out…every day that brings lasting change into our lives.” ― Toni Sorenson
It takes a lot of practice and effort at first, but consistency is a key component for success. Being consistent through hard work and commitment is something you’ll be able to take pride in. And it will, without a doubt, give you an advantage over those who don’t use the power of consistency with their finances or in any area of their lives.
Consistency is also a great confidence builder. As you become more confident in yourself, you also learn to trust yourself much more with monetary decisions. Your saving and spending activities will become second nature without having to put much thought into your day to day finances. And it doesn’t only work that way with finances, it holds true in anything you’re consistent with.
You don’t get to where you want to be in life by doing things once in a while. You get there by being deliberately consistent in what you do! It’s about making a conscious effort to form and instill small habits that give you the right results. The kind of results that get you closer to your goals. As you string those small, good habits together on a regular basis, you’ll start to notice bigger results.
If you’re patient, give it time and stick with it, you’ll reach exceptional levels in your life that you thought you never would. Just like any other type of success, there are no silver bullets or magic wands. Financial success is no different. It’s all about delayed gratification and discipline along with practicing good habits over and over again on a regular basis. That’s consistency!
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