It is easy for you to get inspired once from a movie and go
and do fifty push-ups without stopping, but then months pass
by and you do not do even a single push-up. It is easy for you
to write a great blog article because of the lessons that you
have learned from a great book that you have read recently,
but then you stop writing and forget that you have a blog at
all. It is easy for you to get up early and start working on
your most important tasks once a year and then you get back to
your normal procrastination mode of not doing your tasks until
it becomes almost too late.
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Tag: consistency
We are all impressed by success stories, like how incredible was Michael Jordan in basketball, or how smart was Bill Gates in programming to develop such a great operating system. These stories tend to orient us into thinking that these types of results are easy. We only see their results, and nobody mentions the efforts they put and the pain they had felt during the journey of achieving that desirable level of expertise which then produced remarkable results. Moreover, our process of thinking tends to picture them as incredible and as good since their beginnings as they were during their peak performances. Continue reading
