When last year one of my
blogger friends went on a blogging relapse, I took it upon myself to urge her
back. Her cranky, witting and self expressive writing style was something I
didn’t want the world to miss. I did well, she got back some months later.
Just like this my blogger friend,
I too soon went on a blogging relapse. In fact, I have been technically offline
since October last year though this same time has been my most ‘online time’ the most. I appreciate all those that visited while I was on this blogging
hiatus.
My absence made me think
to the point that I had to redefine two words I discovered were my real problems.
Here are my thoughts and conclusions.
1. The
value of consistency and
2. The
redefinition of ‘being busy’.
Let me begin with point 2 –
the redefinition of ‘being busy’.
Before you crucify me, let me ask you this, what do you understand by being
busy? I’m guessing you’ll say to be uber engaged in one activity or the other.
You are very correct, but sorry, you are wrong. If you are actively engaged
doing something that doesn’t add to your bottom line (end outcome) be it in finance,
health, spirituality, relationship, career etc you are actually only whiling away
time – aka time wasting. You are not busy, just wasting aware.
So what am I driving? Bottom
line. The end of a thing justifies the
starting and process. Being busy is to be engaged in an activity that
improves the end outcome of whatever was started – even if you are not entirely
worked up about it. The reverse of being busy is time wasting (which is closely
related to patience the theme of my next post).
The second is the value of Consistency. Show me a man consistent in his ways and I’ll
show you a man who will go places – even if he is consistent in the wrong
things. One of my Achilles heels is consistency. Yes I confess, I have
consistency issues and I’m working hard at changing. These few days, nay months
of blogging relapse really taught me how powerfully disastrous inconsistency
can get.
Here is how I define consistency.
Consistency means staying true to whatever you commit yourself to. Consistency is an outward manifestation of
integrity. You may have integrity without consistency but never consistency
without integrity.
As I look to the days
ahead and my renewed hunger to throw out thought jabs and blows (big ups to
Ali), I look forward to overcoming my fears and weaknesses and churning out
thoughts that’ll help me and you my readers.
Key
Take Homes
Consistency is an outward
manifestation of integrity (tweet this)
Show
me a man consistent in his ways and I’ll show you a man who will go places - even if it's in the wrong things.
The
end of a thing justifies the starting and process of that thing.
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