Consistency vs Intensity
At different points in time and life consistency serves best. Intensity serves better in others. But, how can you determine when, which and how? It’s situational, sure. Let’s say you want to start exercising. It serves you best to be consistent, not intense. Intensity makes you sign up for a gym and on your first day you do a 2-hour work out. Burning yourself out and potentially hurting yourself in the process. Consistency however, allows you to show up 3 days per week for 45 minutes. The consistency will give you a better result than being intense. And you’ll show up more often.
It’s not just with exercise. Consistency as a professional. A parent. A partner. With your money. With other life choices. It’s best to operate under the consistent model. This changes how you behave, your habits and your mindset. The small win is more important than the grand gesture. Your focus is more on the present. Rather than on the end result, which is often attributed to intensity.
Start with consistency in mind. Once you are active in the act, then it serves to have intensity. To maximize your efforts. It’s a chicken and egg thing, which one comes first.
If you aren’t sure yourself, choose consistency and you’ll eventually feel the intensity once you have a consistent habit about yourself
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Thought Provoking Questions : Instead of intensity, how can you be more consistent and where?
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