KEY INSIGHT OF WHY WE FAIL IN OUR LIFE
- Consistency is crucial in achieving success, whether it's in our careers, spirituality, or any other aspect of life. By consistently practicing positive actions and thoughts, we can cultivate success and happiness.
- Our ability to excel in both positive and negative behaviors is a result of consistent practice. We become good at what we do consistently, whether it's beneficial or harmful.
- Lack of consistency is often the main reason behind failure or lack of success. Without consistent effort and dedication, it's difficult to achieve our goals.
- High expectations can be a major obstacle to consistency. When we set unrealistic goals and expect immediate results, we are more likely to give up when we don't see the desired outcomes.
- Focusing on small achievements and celebrating them can help maintain consistency. By setting achievable targets and acknowledging progress, we stay motivated and build momentum towards success.
- Success requires patience and perseverance. It's important to keep going even when we don't see immediate results. Progress may be slow, but as long as we consistently work towards our goals, we will eventually achieve them.
- It's crucial to continue doing good work and practicing positive habits, even when the results are not visible. Consistency in our actions and thoughts lays the foundation for long-term success and happiness.
Consistency is the key to success in all areas of life
If you can define success in one word, the only word that we can find is consistency. This quality is very important for all of our lives, not only in your day-to-day life, not only in your career, but also in your spiritual path. if someone is practicing a spiritual path, consistency is the key to success.
what do you mean by consistency?
Consistency means doing something every single day or without stopping for a long period of time until you get better at it. If we look at our lives, there are some bad habits we all have in them.
why are we so good at these bad things?
The reason why we are so good at bad things is that we have done it for a long time. Every single day without stopping that is the nature of our mind and that is the nature of our life whether it is good or bad if you are doing it consistently or if you are doing it over and over for a long period of time we get so good at it that is why we are so good at distractions that is why we are so good at anger jealousy and all these evil thoughts in our mind because we have practiced it over a long period of time.
Focus on small achievements and don't expect immediate results
Buddha said if you need to cultivate wholesome thoughts and if you need to do And if you need to be successful in your spiritual life, what are you going to do? You have to cultivate and you have to practice this. Hold them wholesome thoughts or wholesome activities for a long period of time without stopping. every single day. let's keep the spiritual life for a part. Let's take the studying and education.
Now if you are someone who is studying and if you are someone who is focused on education, what do you have to do? You have to keep studying. sometimes you find very difficult and very challenging to keep studying because our minds get distracted. Sometimes we lose our focus in that time So many of people complain that I cannot study. I'm distracting always what is the reason why what is the problem with me well the only problem behind the failure or this unsuccessfulness is lack of consistency. sometimes we try to study and then we feel tired and we feel less focused and then then we give up and then after maybe like two or three days again we try to study and then gain the same thing happen and then we give up. In that way you're not going to be successful okay if you want to be successful and in any field of of your life maybe study, maybe in your meditations, maybe in your spiritual life, maybe in kindness, maybe cultivating compassion in your life.
what do you have to do?
You have to be consistent that is the only way to be successful in anything I can still remember when we came to become monks. on the first day our monks gave this first advice to us that is they say that it takes several minutes to become a monk physically. It takes a few minutes to make your body a monk but it takes years and years maybe lifetime to be a monk from your mind. You will fail you will be unsuccessful in some parts in your life but you have to keep going do not ever quit that is the first advice that we were given so to be good at anything to be successful to be happy to be successful in your spiritual life to practice meditations to be good at that in that what are you gonna do keep doing it every single day that is the thing, but there's a problem.
High expectations can hinder consistency and lead to giving up
The real problem or the real enemy for consistency is the higher expectations. We have a lot of high expectations in our lives, and when we are not able to get them, we give up. That is the only thing. So many people complain that I cannot meditate for one hour.
What is the problem with me? I cannot focus for one hour. In the beginning, no one can do that. There may be a few lucky people in this world who can concentrate instantly. If you want to be good at in your meditations in your focusing and your concentration power, what do you want to do? Keep doing it. Do not set high expectations. Aim for the little little achievements, maybe like you can focus and you can think. If my mind became concentrated or well focused only for one minute, that's okay. I'm happy with that one minute. You heard when you focus on that you can easily achieve it. You can do that when you achieve it. Feel a sense of happiness in your life. You feel like you achieved that target. So inthe next day when you meditate, maybe you can focus your mind or you can concentrate your mind for two minutes.
Focus on small achievements and don't expect immediate results
So if you keep on focusing on little achievements and without having high expectations in your life for the first time, then you will be good at maintaining your consistency because sometimes when we don't see results, when we don't get results as quickly as we want, we just give up. That is the biggest problem in our minds to be successful, you need to spend a period of time that you are not seeing the results. one day I was climbing, and we are in Sri Lanka.We have a nice mountain where we climb to see the Buddha's fruit footprint that is called Adam speak or the SRI pada in Sri Lanka.
It's important to keep doing good work even if results are not visible
So once we were climbing, we could not see the mountain top. We don't know where we are going. So one monk said to me, It doesn't matter if you cannot see where you are going, but if you're clear in your next step, take that step and if you're in the correct part, no matter how fast or slow you go, you will go to your destination that you want to go to, so always remember that it doesn't matter how fast or how slow you are moving towards success. The most important thing is that whether you're going to do it every single day in the correct way or not, consistency is the key to success for anything, so keep doing what you're doing, Keep doing the good works that you're doing, even if you don't see the results in your life keep doing it and one day I'm very sure that you will achieve your goals definitely so keep that in your mind may you be happy and well.
CONCLUSION
Consistency is the key to success in all aspects of life, including career and spirituality. By practicing something consistently over time, we become good at it, whether it's positive or negative. Setting high expectations can hinder consistency, so it's important to focus on small achievements and not give up when results are not immediate.
