The Cost of Inconsistency

I want to release a new blog post every Sundae, and here I am writing without any particular set of motivation - it's Sundae morning. I'm already late!

I don't know exactly what I want to say or how I want to word it, but I guarantee you that if I just keep writing and editing, and thinking, and writing, by the end of this blog post I would have written a blog post... you feel me?

Now, I've been paying to have this website up and running for years - $73.07 Bds to be exact.

And every month, consistently, I get a bill.

I keep paying the price each month thinking "One dae this site will..." followed by all my hopes and dreams of what this corner of the internet could provide for its guests.

I could list a bunch of reasons I haven't been consistent:

• I'm juggling a million things

• My health needs alot of work - I does be tired ALL the time and I does just want to sleep.

• I don't know what to say

• Only 5 people will read it

• I prefer to write in certain conditions (that are too ideal to ever truly exist)

Meanwhile, every year I spend $876.84 to keep an inactive website online.

Inaction costs.

Inconsistency costs.

COST BREAKDOWN OF INCONSISTENCY:

You Lose Time 

If you start and stop over a period of 5yrs, you wouldn't have gotten as far as if you'd kept going from dae #1 to dae #1825. But the 5yrs have passed - spent. There's nothing more expensive than time poorly spent.

You Lose Self-Confidence

The more time you lose = the more time spent re-enforcing the idea that you can't do "it". It happens very slowly, but over time, you don't even believe in the possibility of what you first dreamed. You let the idea get cold and weeks, months, years of reasons start to pile up.

You Lose Momentum

Have you ever had to push a broken down car out of the road before? You know how it takes the most effort at first, but then once you keep your feet moving, the car will move? Well, you ever had to go over even the slightest bump or incline?

What happened when that momentum was lost?

When we're inconsistent, we lose the momentum that was so hard to pick up in the first place. Now look at ya! Struggling to push...

You lose Trust

Now, you don't even believe your promises to yourself anymore. You've tuned yourself out. "You do this every time! You start, then you fall off, do you even know what you want?"

Oh geez now...Now your brain is in a whole spiral. You've lost time, so now that means that you're older now, you've lost confidence, and you don't have the energy to push over the inevitable bumps in the road.

Here's WHAT TO DO INSTEAD:

Do it bored

Do it scared

Do it tired

Do it broke

Do it busy

Do it small

Do it badly

Do it with no audience

But you just HAVE to do it. There's no getting around the work that needs to be done in order to do the thing you've always wanted to do. But if you just roll up your sleeves and work like a horse, you WILL burn out and end up being inconsistent anyway.

Here's HOW TO DO IT:

With grace

With community

With God

With a plan

With time for rest

With curiosity and joy

With faith

Inch, by inch...

Inconsistency is expensive. You don't have to do it ALL, you just need to crawl.

Keep Inching forward!

Anything you want me to expound on? Let me know in the comments!

Love,

Dae.