Your ideas drive your actions, and your actions produce your results. If you believe this is true, starting with a consistent attitude is step one of attaining your goals. The only difference between success and failure in human life is determination and perseverance. Success in life comes with constant consistency. People who are constantly on the move, one day they will bring their boat to shore and those who are discouraged, their boat is always stuck in a whirlpool. It often happens that people get excited after getting inspired by a task, they get motivated to do the task. It starts and the hobby does not remain the same as before, until one day the work which was started with great enthusiasm begins to look cold-blooded and gradually begins to freeze around it. Even the end result is nothing but loss.
Consistency leads a person to the destination. People who are not consistent cannot find a destination. Their intentions keep changing. They are never happy about what they have done. Home economics students are landlords and agriculture students work in hotels, experts in Islamic studies work in banks, and commerce students teach Islamic studies. Someone is the imam of a mosque after doing MA in political science, while someone is memorizing the Qur’an and is in politics after doing MA in Islamiat. Some people open a general store but after a short time start a fruit business, then open a fertilizer shop. Most people do not adopt consistency and do not stick to one hobby, they keep changing their hobbies, they keep changing their hobbies because they do not know what their real hobby is which is from Allah Almighty. They are specially endowed, but if the passion becomes clear to the servant, he never misses.
Many students gather the necessary materials for their education, study for a few days with enthusiasm, and then get tired and express their desire to go to another valley. In contrast, there are some students who do not have much interest in education but their hard work is consistent, they study all year round so success kisses their feet. It turns out that the secret of success lies in hard work and perseverance. Doing something consistently leads one to the destination.
Of course, you need the perseverance to be steadfast. The fact is, you can’t have consistency in your life without commitment and habit development. These things can take time, so don’t be discouraged if you still force yourself on these things and they don’t feel natural yet. Be patient and do not be discouraged. Some studies show that it takes 21 days to develop a new habit. Another study found that it can take up to 66 days for a new habit to become permanent. To change your life and make it more permanent, you need to maintain a consistent drive to achieve consistency. Don’t give up. Finding perseverance can give your life more stability, more satisfaction, and ultimately more happiness.
Hard work works, working really hard is what successful people do. Ram Chandra Das, a 50-year-old man from the Indian state of Bihar, worked hard for 15 years to cut through the mountains and build a road ten kilometers long and four meters wide. With the construction of this road, the distance of his village from the rest of the area was reduced from seven kilometers to two and a half kilometers. Today, everyone is using the road he built.
The famous Muhaddith Baghdadi (may Allah have mercy on him) writes that a man was interested in acquiring knowledge but he was not succeeding. He got tired and decided that he would not acquire any more knowledge. One day he passed by a mountain whose water was dripping and falling on a rock which caused a crack in the rock. Then he said that when water, despite its sweetness, can create cracks in the dense rock, then by Allah, I can also acquire knowledge.
Life situations are often complex and unpredictable. One day you can be sure that everything is perfect and the next day you can question any of your decisions. If you want to be consistent in life, you need to be consistent in your ways, habits, and way of thinking. Finding consistency can help you go through difficult times and periods of personal doubt. It starts with building a more stable lifestyle and extends to other areas of your life.
The most obvious thing in the lives of all the successful people in history is their consistency. The idea of success without consistency is like living without oxygen. Adopt consistency and give your life a new direction that will guarantee you happiness and well-being. Those who are inconsistent go from one thing to the next, never reaching their goal because they are unwilling to accept progress, seeking an immediate result. When the result isn’t quickly produced, they change their goals, adjust the vehicle they were using to pursue their goals, and start over again, only to repeat the pattern forever.
