Consistency & Why We All Struggle With It.

"Consistency is always the best teacher." Stephon Marbury

You can say that again.

Yep its me Mr Inconsistent....

I really don't know what happened? I completely fell off the band wagon in terms of writing these posts, I found myself becoming hooked on looking at how many likes and views I was getting and basing these results on if this was actually worth my time?

I completely forgot the reason why I started this blog, it wasn't for me it was for other people, to help others in parts of their life where they might be struggling. It wasn't until a close friend asked me why I had stopped posting my weekly blog. I didn't stop writing in my journal I just ghosted the online platform. My last post was back in August and since then a lot has changed. Reflecting on the last year and seeing flashbacks on social media of where I was this time a year ago its weird to realise just how much can be done by just having a little consistency in your life.

In the middle of this year I was juggling working full time and working on my side hustle whilst the whole time always looking out for a job where I could use my passion and side hustle in my everyday life. I finally landed this role at the start of September and began working as a Marketing Manager in October. I learnt that with every no or blank application it became less of a bother to me and instead motivated me to just keep pressing on as for some bizarre reason I had a feeling that something would just click. I could've settled for working full time with Wren Kitchens and my side or hustle or keep pushing for a role I knew would come along. What I forgot along the way was the promise I made myself and that was to keep up with posting weekly on this platform and sharing my thoughts for others, with this came a slide back into the mundane and dangerous road back into the routine of the 9-5 and working on nothing else. I became complacent but at the same time happy, which has to be the most confusing feeling for someone who likes to keep busy and active.

In my previous job I couldn't wait to get away from it, get away from that classic "its a job and it pays the bills" this blog and my side hustle was an escape from the everyday but I let the new, change my attitude towards the old. Without the consistency in posting and holding myself accountable for doing it everything else slowly started to have a knock on effect. I found it harder to wake up in the mornings to go and train, I dropped off my online mentoring for investing and trading, my diet took an impact meaning my food structure was all over the place and I felt sluggish and lazy most days. This all took place over a month period and I can blame it on getting use to a new routine etc but deep down I think the biggest thing to blame is myself and my attitude towards accountability. Without the consistent need to better myself and knowing I was worth more, I lost the get up and go attitude I had when I wasn't in a career that I wanted to be in. I got the job I've wanted since graduating and I let this take away my motivation. Its amazing what others would consider happiness I can now reflect and call this complacency.

Having time to reflect I have learnt that the consistency I had with applying for jobs and brushing each and every rejection off and carrying on is the same consistency I have to have when it comes to the extra curricular, I love writing and I love helping others (even if I don't know who I'm helping) that one message from a close friend really opened my eyes into the fact that you have to be consistent in life and also be accountable for your own actions.

Tierneys Top Tips "It's a classic, we all have goals and achievements and we think that when we get there we will have this overwhelming sense of accomplishment and achievement but once we get what we want there is always this empty sense of well what next? You can either let that be a deciding factor and you settle or you keep going and consistently look for the next target, you may never be 100% happy or settled but with consistency you will be further ahead then where you were if you settled."

Thanks

T.