Commit to Consistency

In part 3 of this I don't know how many parts post on consistency, I address a comment I received on yesterday's post. While consistency is a good thing, the fact that we could be doing something consistently wrong would not be taking us in the direction of our goals, unless our goal was to fail or not do the right thing.

It reminds me of my coaching days. We tried to get our players to be consistent in their fundamentals to be successful. Often, players who had grown up shooting a basketball a certain way or throwing with a certain motion would have a difficult time breaking the habits that had become ingrained in their actions. Many times, these players struggled to be consistently good, showing flashes of success, but unable to maintain that throughout a game or season.

We, too may find ourselves heading in the wrong direction, if we're not paying carful attention to what we're doing. The commitment to taking consistent action doesn't help much if we're not willing to always reflect and evaluate on where the action is taking us. It's a little like driving the car, flying a plane, or riding a bike. Rarely is the vehicle going in a perfectly straight line, but continuous micro adjustments get us to the intended destination. It's very similar in our daily lives, professionally and personally. If we are to arrive at our intended goal/destination, we must continually see where an action leads and make adjustments if it is not in the direction we are traveling.