Writers 
The Power of Consistency
Consistency is absolutely vital to your focus. Have you ever tried eating once a week? Or showering once a month? Or working out for an entire day only once a month? Obviously, problems would arise if you did these things sporadically.
The same applies to everything you do. You may scoff at this idea and say it does not matter if you work on your goals for 10 hours once a week, or 2 hours a day for 5 days a week. I’m going to demonstrate why it DOES matter.
Every action is a form of energy that you are directing toward a specific end result.
And the greatest thing about energy is that it is accumulative in nature. The average person probably brushes their teeth for 2 or 3 minutes twice in a day. Let us round it up to 5 minutes for the sake of demonstration. So, 5 minutes twice a day equals 10 minutes of daily tooth brushing, or 70 minutes in a 7 day period. (Bet you did not know brushing your teeth was so time-consuming, huh?) If you instead decided to brush your teeth for 70 minutes today and skip the other 6 days of the week, would the end result be the same? No, because during the other 6 days bacteria and plaque would be building up on your teeth, promoting decay and gum
disease. Yuck.
Let’ us use another example: the sun. The sun shines for approximately 15 hours in a 24 hour period (depending on the season and geographical location; sometimes less, sometimes slightly more). There are 168 hours in a 7 day period, 105 of them daylight hours (using the 15 hour example).
That means we’ have got approximately 63 hours of darkness in a 7 day period. Imagine if the sun shone for 105 hours straight, followed by 63 hours of darkness.
That would be 4.38 days of sunlight, followed by 2.63 days of solid darkness (a “day” being a 24 hour cycle). How would the plants and trees fare with such a schedule? How would that affect our environment on all levels?
What does this have to do with your focus?
Consistency is what creates the most benefits– in anything. Everything you do begins to ACCUMULATE. The more consistent effort and attention you give something, the faster and bigger it grows.
This works on a creation level (starting and growing something– like goals) and it also works on a maintenance level (like personal development, fitness and hygiene).
If you devote a large chunk of time to something and then slack off for 5 or 6 times the equivalent of the effort you exerted, you are basically starting over each time you begin again. That’s because any benefits you created with your initial effort have begun to stagnate and dwindle away.
Consistency, on the other hand, keeps adding power to what you’ have already accomplished. You create a solid foundation and then keep building on it.
