Consistency doesn’t count for everything, but it sure counts for a whole lot.
Some of these perks often go overlooked.
The creative mind is much like machinery.
Too much work and you overload it, too little and a decrepit state of rusty thinking awaits you.
Keep the process humming by allowing the steady flow of work to never let the mental cobwebs settle.
When you’re consistent, it means never having to restart.
Consistency Is Integral to Creativity
Writing doesn’t just transfer ideas, it creates them.
The same can be said for all creative work.
The inverse is rarely true, as doing something requires thinking about it.
Consistent work puts you where the good ideas can find you.
With constant work comes constant inspiration.
Ideas are not a predefined bucket that you should live in fear of drying up.
Work creates a state that connects new ideas.
Just be sure to give yourselfsomespace.
Fires only burn when they have room to breathe.
Consistency relieves you of this burden.
I take a stab at put the shit in the wastebasket."
I hope you’re creating enough to have material to trash, because even genius produces a few duds.
you’re able to’t schedule insight, so the worry is that this will make your work repetitive.
When done right, consistency cultivates something that’s repeatable, not repetitive.
(And hopefully I can serve as an illuminating example to you.)
Last year, I stumbled into many of the pitfalls above.
My writingon my siteslowed to a snail’s pace, and I published less than ten essays.
To be fair, I was creating very consistently with my other work atHelp Scout.
What I should have cared about was myaveragespeed.
On average, my progress for writing last year was slow.
It’s easy to make excuses when we don’t commit to a realistic average speed.
Grand, spasmodic effort won’t achieve lasting resultsconsistency will.
I’ll be here, will you?
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Additional image by Dr. Peter Myers.
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