Consistency is Key

Well, that’s what they say in all the self-help books and all the health and wellness content. At some point it starts to feel cliche and especially when you’re struggling… annoying and frustrating. Consistency creates routine. Routine compounds small wins over time until you wake up 10 pounds lighter, fluent in Spanish, or something else super interesting you’ve been dreaming about.

Conversations of character, values, and principles have been surfacing in a few of my circles. I have to name drop and give credit to my friend Angela. She hands down has been my role model for the way she’s created, defined, and lived by what she calls her “personal core values”. She’ll give presentations to group and talk about how she measures each and every decision she makes in life against a clear and concise set of guiding principles. It’s the same kind of thing a business does with their values and mission statements, but until I learned from Angela it never really clicked that more importantly than any business having a set of guiding principles, I should too. For myself.

I’m a huge proponent of keeping things like this simple. Simplicity seems to create an environment primed for success. Because when things are simple, they’re easier to stick to. To have consistency.

If you’re not consistent in using your guiding principles and acting on them, can you really… honestly say they’re your guiding principles?

If you don’t intimately know what those principles are, how it looks when you intentionally live by them, and what it feels like to choose what aligns, how will get closer to living out the best expression of yourself?