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It’s never the goal; it’s something entirely within your realm of control.
As I reflect on all of the goals I’ve had and have now, the hardest part is never achieving them.
The most challenging part is staying consistent with every distraction, emotion, and impediment that can easily obstruct my progress.
When you’re on a roll with consistent progress, it’s easy not to break the chain, but it’s also easy to break the chain, and in the case you do, you are subject to inertia.
The more you stray from a goal, the more you jeopardize attaining the goal. When you’re not proactively working on a goal, you’re building a habit of not working on the goal. When you are proactively working on a goal, you’re building a habit of working on the goal.
The key is never to stop. Of course, a break here and there is healthy, but for the most part, any worthwhile goal requires consistent, painful dedication.
There’s not an easy way to do anything worthwhile.
So, to achieve your goals, ask yourself how willing you are to be consistent.
If you can be consistent, you will go extraordinarily far – farther than most people ever go, because most people lack consistency.
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