Consistency - excerpts from an article by John Cameron

By now you all know consistency is one of the keys to being a good leader, manager, supervisor, boss, or parent. If you don't know why, here is one reason. Say you lead a team of ten people. You are unpredictable enough for your team to spend ten percent of their time wondering how you are going to react. You have lost effectiveness equal to one full time employee. Your inconsistent behavior wasted the equivalent of one employee. You do the math. Leaders need to be able to do simple math.

What lifestyle are you passionate about?

Being passionate about something empowers a person to take consistent action. It is a natural response. That is really living a lifestyle. This is one of the ways you can tell if you are serious and passionate about what you tell yourself you want success with. If the reasons are not right then the consistent actions you take will reflect that.

Quite often you can be enthusiastic about something because it may appeal to you on a materialistic level only, or may just be wishful thinking, but this may not be enough in the long term.

Other times you may get caught in the trap of getting ready to get ready mode. Other times you may be dicing around with the idea that you want to do something but use an excuse why you can not do it today and that you will do it tomorrow.

Being consistent with all these actions can expect the exact same consistent results. You must take consistent action to have any chance of gaining what it is you want, not just talk about it or get ready to do it or do it tomorrow or wish you could do it.

People who succeed in life are people who understand time management and stick to schedules consistently. They also understand time principles.

If you want to build your social media presence in the marketplace, then you need to consistently work at growing your Facebook friends or increasing your twitter followers.

How do you do this? By consistently providing good content to Twitter, Facebook and Linked In. Over time this will pay off, but, you have to consistentlyput it out there.

Being consistent in any daily activity you wish to excel in is very important. Once consistency is achieved positive results and progress follow. Once you start getting consistent results you can identifywhere those results are coming from and start to optimize those campaigns by increasing your intensity,repetition, and your efficiency to really get your progress moving and to ultimate start freeing up your time so you can start using the same principles to start doing things and mastering things that you have always wanted to do.

For instance, the 80/20 rule. The 80/20 rule basically means that the 80 percent of the ground work you do to build your business may onlyreap 20 percent of actual business. But if you are consistent then the other 80 of you business will come during the last 20 percent of your of your ground work.

So dont ever be discouraged when building a businessbecause all of your ground work comes back in business in a big way if you are consistent and are being consistent with the things that are going to ultimately free up your time. That is what I think real freedom is. It is time freedom and money freedomat the same time.

"The secret to winning is constant, consistent management." - Tom Landry

"In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but whatwe do consistently." -- Tony Robbins