Day 071

Dear dreamer,

Consistency

If you think it gets easy with each time, I don't think you have the statistics perfect. It might be easier but it does not become effortless. It requires you to keep coming back to do the same thing time and time again.

It's been more than 70 days that I started writing the blog, I can only try to write each one every day because I have to keep coming back. It does not mean it has been easy to do it severally. In my case, I have frequently thought of quitting at some point which is not an entirely bad idea but the time was not right. I had to persistently keep the streak.

This is what I apply as a daily principle. You don't quit it because it's hard. That's the one excuse that is never enough for me to quit. I could take breaks to re-strategize but I keep coming back to them. Consistency was the one thing that kept me coming back to all my projects and I knew inside of me that none of them were necessarily over. I was definitely coming back to attend to them later. 

It's important for us to be persistent with all our goals, dreams and work. It means not quitting because it's hard, taking breaks and coming back to it with new ways to tackle our challenges. It's hard the first time, second time and every time you are at it. That's not the sign to throw your hands up and walk away. My first project has somehow played in recently. I have another opportunity to do the same thing again. It is equally as hard as it was when I wanted to start it but I had done a little previously so it was not supposed to be hard.


                        ~A Penniless Dreamer

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