Change: Start Showing Up Better than Before

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

George Bernard Shaw

Jim Rohn was an American business philosopher who had a positive influence on a countless number of people in many countries around the world with nothing more than certain principles, plain wisdom and practical truths. 

Though he wrote and published many useful books on those principles, yet the cornerstone of his entire philosophy is based on one straightforward sentence: “If you will change, everything will change for you.” 

After a deep thought on that one quote, I realize how promising and hopeful it really is. Therefore, this article will prod us— not to change our entire lives but—to change with regard to just one principle: the truth of consistency.

In this life, the people we respect the most are those who are somehow able to do the necessary things more consistently than us. They are the ones with a level of consistency we wish we could bring into our own affairs.

They are the ones who show up and deliver day after day while everyone else struggles with lethargy, procrastination and indifference.

They are the ones who seemed to have figured out the secret of successful living; they are the ones with a Midas touch: the ones on top of their games.

They are the ones who don’t seem to have the time to complain or dwell on past performances. They are the ones highly focused on the process of constant and never ending improvement. 

As proven in the best researches available, consistency is noted to be a key trait of this crop of people; consistency is undoubtedly, their magic bullet as Tynan, the author Superhuman by Habit writes: “Consistency is everything.”

Again, my message today is simply to encourage us to learn to show up as the best show up in important areas of their lives. Put another way: I am urging us to be far more consistent than we have ever been.

Perhaps, this is the only key lesson we need to implement for everything to fall into place. Perhaps, this is all we need to do to step up our game for good. 

Let’s give it a try in response to the words of an American historian, Edward Everett Hale who said: 

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

For example:

To be a better student, suspend improving everything else, just improve one thing: show up more consistently with your deep regular study than ever before.

Do that long enough and you will be surprised at the depth of understanding which you can uncover. Apply the same principle to any other key area of your life, one step at a time.

Finally, understand that we don’t have to change everything at once to see a radical improvement that we envision; we just need to start showing up more consistently than we have ever done.