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dee
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Rock Hill, South Carolina
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what is they key to staying consistent?
Every time I'm doing good it seems like I always get this feeling to where everything feels like its ok but really I'm just getting by. how do I keep a focused mindset or what are some practices I can do to help me stay consistent with continuing to do good.
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Roberto Fernandez
Servant Leader Apprentice
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Miami, Florida
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Roberto’s Answer
This is a very mature question that is going to (hopefully) follow you all your life. We always need to be self aware and constantly evaluate ourselves and our response to our environment; then adjust accordingly.
Discipline is the big word here. For you not to limit yourself, you need to set your sights further and higher than where you currently are at any given point on time. Discipline is the skill of sticking to your plan and principles. Assuming that you are still a very young student, I'm sure you will have the opportunity to move your goal post forward many times.
Today I would recommend that you start by establishing a few "guiding principles" between three (3) and five (5) personal qualities you have (or want to have) and always evaluate your goals and actions against those. You can call those your "Core Values". What this is going to do is to establish a basic but powerful element of discipline that you can expand into more complex activities.
There are many to choose from. My own, for example, are "Loyalty", "Competence" and "Persistence". Yours can include one or none of those because there are many others. Because you are talking about not having limits, you maybe could adopt "Growth" and check any plan or decision you make against it. In this case you would ask yourself: "by pursuing X, Am I pursuing Growth?" an so on.
This is just to get started, the road to a limitless attitude will be paved with doubts and real setbacks, but if you have the discipline of always checking against your plan, and that plan is checked against your "Core Values" you will, invariably; go over your doubts and recover from setbacks.
Good Luck !!
Discipline is the big word here. For you not to limit yourself, you need to set your sights further and higher than where you currently are at any given point on time. Discipline is the skill of sticking to your plan and principles. Assuming that you are still a very young student, I'm sure you will have the opportunity to move your goal post forward many times.
Today I would recommend that you start by establishing a few "guiding principles" between three (3) and five (5) personal qualities you have (or want to have) and always evaluate your goals and actions against those. You can call those your "Core Values". What this is going to do is to establish a basic but powerful element of discipline that you can expand into more complex activities.
There are many to choose from. My own, for example, are "Loyalty", "Competence" and "Persistence". Yours can include one or none of those because there are many others. Because you are talking about not having limits, you maybe could adopt "Growth" and check any plan or decision you make against it. In this case you would ask yourself: "by pursuing X, Am I pursuing Growth?" an so on.
This is just to get started, the road to a limitless attitude will be paved with doubts and real setbacks, but if you have the discipline of always checking against your plan, and that plan is checked against your "Core Values" you will, invariably; go over your doubts and recover from setbacks.
Good Luck !!
Gabrielle Dillworth
Executive Assistant
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Concord, California
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Gabrielle’s Answer
Make promises to yourself, and stick to them. If you can't keep promises you make to yourself, it's often hard to make promises to others. The ones you make to yourself are often the easiest to dismiss and deprioritize but are the most important. I would start by being intentional in everything you are trying to achieve. Set goals for yourself and WRITE THEM DOWN. Break those goals into steps and create lists for yourself that include all of those steps. Your intentional plan is your promise to yourself.
When you can begin to be that intentional and create promises and standards for yourself and who you want to be, your actions will follow the consistency and structure you set up for your self, equating to consistency. Be disciplined! You got this!
When you can begin to be that intentional and create promises and standards for yourself and who you want to be, your actions will follow the consistency and structure you set up for your self, equating to consistency. Be disciplined! You got this!
Raven Gerald
College Basketball Coach
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Washington, Washington
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Raven’s Answer
The key to consistency in anything you do is building great habits. An example of a habit that can lead to greater consistency is time management. In order to manage your time and become more consistent in everything you do, I would suggest setting goals at the beginning of every week. This list should consist of whatever tasks you want to get done that week. This can even include steps that you want to take toward a long-term goal. Then, set yourself a schedule for each day throughout the week and prioritize those goals that you wrote down by making sure that you make time get those things done or at least take an intentional step toward achieving it. This will help you become more consistent and progressive rather than just getting by.
Jeffrey Boylen MBA
Engineer
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Eugene, Oregon
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Jeffrey’s Answer
Building a good schedule and sticking to it. Create health habits and stick with them. Find what works and replicate it over and over. Don't walk back your commitments.