Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:22 PM

I was randomly scrolling through reddit one fine day and came across this.

Being a highly ambitious person, this hit me hard. This is one of those quotes that has stuck with me since that day. It gets me out of bed and working. Working towards being the kind of person that I know I have the potential to be. And the way to get there is the topic of today's email. It's inspired by this non-fiction book I've been skimming through these days called "The Slight Edge" Today, I want to talk about consistency. Heard this word lots of times, in a lot of ways but never applied it much. Doing something again and again and again. Repeatedly. Sounds easy to do but it never is. I feel consistency is interconnected. Whenever I think of it, this below comes to my mind. Consistency -> Habit -> Compounding -> Structure Fundamentally, we all take pretty much the same actions every day. We eat, sleep, think, feel, talk and listen. We have relationships and friendships. We each have twenty four hours a day, 168 hours a week and we fill these hours one way or the other with a sequence of mundane little actions and tasks. Successful and Unsuccessful people both do the same basic things. Yet, there's a difference. What is it? The difference is the awareness, understanding, and application of the tasks they do everyday in their life and work. The mundane things. We brush our teeth daily. It's a boring task. Yet, this same boring task that we do daily keeps our teeth clean and maintains its health. Everything I need to do to transform my life from a giant chaotic mess into a neat, organized and healthy life is easy to do. It's easy to become healthy, fit and vibrant. It's easy to become financially independent. It's easy to become great at whatever I want to be great at. It's just a matter of mastering the mundane - of repeating simple little discipline that, done consistently over time, will add up to the very biggest accomplishments. But of course, it is just as easy not to. The simple, seemingly insignificant error in judgement, compounded over time, will ruin my chances of success. It's the choice I face everyday, every hour. A simple, positive action, repeated over time. A simple error in judgement, repeated over time. So easy to do. So easy not to do. It all depends on what I choose daily. P.S. Got a little late today, but no worries. Here's something that you'll find interesting.

Best, Shreya