Consistent vs Persistent

Two peas in a pot of success

Hola amigos!

Wordplay is in the newsletter today!

Though these two words may seem so similar, they have their separate meanings, and you have to follow both consistency and persistence to lead the life, you always wished for. Allow me to elaborate on them and help you install them in your lives.

You start the workout for putting your body into shape today! After the workout, you are feeling so good to start it, but see no change? 'obviously, it’s just today that I started, let’s test for one more day if it can work'. You do it the next day, feeling happy and desperate to get the results, but to your surprise-no better results yet! You quit, thinking it’s not working (We just want everything easy and fast duh).….

In contrast, if it’s a belief inside your head, "I don’t know which day, but it gotta give me the desired results some fine day", and you remain motivated to do it daily without caring for faster results, well that is CONSISTENCY mah budd!

Now, again the same example for persistence. You start the workout for putting your body into shape today! After the workout, you are sweating hard, exhausted, hungry, thirsty, and carrying pain in the exerted body parts. This makes you eat and sleep a bit more than usual. The next day, when it’s your Exercise-time, you are reminded of the pain you suffered the whole yesterday! What a pain in the neck it was! But you still stick to it, enduring all the pain it gave and it is giving now. You do it every day for several days and it kinda becomes your habit. You are leaving no stone unturned to achieve what you want. Well, that is PERSISTENCE mah budd!

Consistency is being regular in your work while persistence means standing strong in the difficulty of the pathway to success. You need both to become that person you’ve always wanted to be( or you can create that dream person now, like why not?). Everything happens two times- first in your head, second in reality. Make sure to construct it carefully in the foremost!

Consistency is in waking up early regularly, persistence is in fighting all the 'No! I can’t do that!' Consistency is in reading a book daily, persistency is in killing 'I don’t have time for that'. Consistency is in doing workouts daily, persistency is to survive the pain of some extra pushups you did. They are like two peas in a pot.

Consistency is the key, for sure, but persistence is the hand that can use the key to open the doors to prosperity. Consistency makes you create a daily to-do, and persistence makes you complete the tasks. Consistency requires willpower to continue something and persistence requires the determination of doing it despite the difficult situations it accompanies. For a student, being consistent makes you achieve the same score every time, and being persistent will make you stronger against various difficulties over the period. Consistency allows steadiness, while persistence overcomes challenges.

They both, when coming in harmony, carry the ability to create wonders.

Wanna install a new habit or break a bad one, wanna achieve a goal that seems so far to achieve, or wanna attain mastery in something- you gotta be consistent and persistent to continue taking little steps every day, fighting all odds, becoming 1% better every day, and becoming an inspiration for others. This way, you make your own destiny and rise to a level that appeared like a dream so far.

That’s all for today… I hope it would help you in some way….Share it with the ones you want to see successful at their work and career.

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