For some reason, I cannot get the word consistency off my brain recently. As I sit here at 9:38pm tonight to pen this little piece that word echoes almost as loudly as the Spotify playlist coming from the laptop speakers. I don’t want to be sitting here at 9:38pm writing this but due to consistency I am here. It is something that I have lacked previously and to create the habit of good consistency I am having to write this now. I could have easily decided to do it tomorrow or just skip it all together and I would still have been consistent. This was the norm when I decided to write before. I let other things take precedence and allowed others consistency to dictate my behaviors. When you actually give a damn about something it becomes frustrating when you allow it to not happen. I’ve been there multiple times throughout the period in my life that I can recall.
When I wake up in the morning I know what I am going to be doing. The consistency, although mundane and not always the most fun things, brings a clarity that is peaceful. For twelve years I knew my days and nights like clockwork. Recently, I have changed my direction career wise and although the mornings are still the same the work day is considerably different. Consistency is still there but the structure is different. Learning new things has never been something I have shied away from throughout my life. I guess I have been consistent with that part of my life. The lack of consistency has come from my unwillingness to really master each craft and becoming an expert in that field. Comfort and ease of use were the norms and when boredom, which was self-imposed, arose the learning desire ceased to exist. Since I made the decision to make this career change I also had to make a different commitment as well. You see, I have chosen to go into the family business and let me tell you, they are good at it. That being said, I have been in family businesses most of my working career but not under the direction of the family in such a direct form. I was a school teacher, as was my mom and my wife. I was a college tennis coach, like my dad was for a very long time. I had the opportunity to work under his direction for a few years but then spread my wings and did it my way. I am now in the family business with my wife and we work under the brokerage of my father in law and mother in law. They are awesome and have built an incredible business. Michelle has been with them now for five years so I am now the rookie. The excitement and desire to do remarkable things is on the front of my mind everyday but I still have the doubts of consistency that plague my thoughts.
When you wake up tomorrow turn on your TV and watch the news. Get on your favorite social media outlet. Pay attention to your drive to work. You will see the most amazing things. The television news is consistently about the worst possible things that could possibly be happening in your area, the country, and around the world. Now, go talk to the general public and just talk to them. Things aren’t really that bad. Look through your social media feed. The same people who have a shitty day tomorrow will be pissed off at something else or someone the next hour or day. The people who are goofy today will be goofy tomorrow. If you pay attention during your drive and are consistent in your times you will pass the same buses, see the same cars, and might even catch the same lights. Consistency is around us all the time. It is comfort and it’s what keeps many of us from moving on with our life. Maybe I am the only one that feels this way. Maybe I’m the only one who gets pissed because I allow my consistency of complacency to hold me back from being consistently uncomfortable and growing because of it. In my humble opinion if we wouldn’t give so much credence to what is shoved down our throats from our multiple outlets we might think there is more to be had instead of protecting what we safely hold. If we allowed ourselves to see what was possible by thinking a bit more about the positive future and the wants that we have always desired instead of the naysayers telling us it won’t work we might surprise ourselves. I always get a kick out of people when you tell them about something that interests you. It’s either too dangerous, too expensive, not possible, or you can’t find the right people. They are right. They won’t. That doesn’t mean you cannot. It is truly up to you.
What are you going to consistently allow in your brain? You get to decide every minute of every hour of every day. If you really want it there is a way. It may be hard, heck it probably will be hard, but I promise that if you truly want it there will be a reward for doing it. There are guys that I went to high school with and I have watched them, thanks to social media (kind of ironic isn’t it), grow things, sell them, and create more things. I have watched people embrace their careers and take them until the end of their working days. I have seen people love what they do. They pursue or pursued excellence in their chosen tasks consistently. This is something that more of us should follow. Find the positive examples and leave the bitchin’ and moanin’ to the talking heads in the media and those “friends” on social media who are absolutely miserable and need us to help them feel worse.
Hopefully there is a consistent message in here and you will consistently pursue your excellence on a daily basis. I know that I have now stuck my cocky neck out and must consistently be better than I was yesterday. This transition will not only be painful to you but to those around you. We all like those who stay with us. Once we try to better ourselves we become weird, different, or fanatical. The consistency of these emotions will never change.
There is a podcast guy that I listen to whose name is Grant Cardone. He finishes all his podcast with this: “Be Great Because Nothing Else Pays!” Go be consistently better each day and see what happens.
Love your consistency !!❤️
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