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How to be Consistent and Achieve Your Goals
Change is hard.
How hard? Very, almost to the point of feeling impossible. You know this, as do I and looking back over the weeks and years, time is littered with the changes we’ve tried to make, but failed to maintain in the long term.
Ok, some changes we’ve managed. We’ve stuck with what’s needed to be done, even if it’s taken us a long, long time, but we did it. In those successes, we can find the nuggets of why sometimes it’s possible to make the change. They are nuggets of gold.
The problem it seems has a lot to do with how to be consistent. Change requires that we adopt new behaviours and apply them consistently to our lives. We then repeat the new actions until they become habit and eventually replace the old unwanted behaviours. This, we know, is hard.
Aldous Huxley makes a good point:
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Extreme, but true. [Read more…] about How to be Consistent and Achieve Your Goals