Consistency is not Perfection

I’m learning that consistency is not the same as perfection.

I can show up every single day but I don’t appear as the same person every single day with the same energy, with the same motivation, or with the same drive. It is therefore very difficult for me to watch people talk about discipline and consistency as robotic features of humanity.

That idea that you constantly are doing the very best every single day and the 100% that you give is the same as the 100% that you can give in your most perfect times is rubbish.

I’m doing this imperfectly I am showing up imperfectly. I am trying my best imperfectly. I am making the most of what I can do, imperfectly. And that has to be enough. I don’t know who I’d be impressing otherwise.

It’s critical for me to be able to be generous with myself. And kind. Understanding, even, that no matter what I have shown up for myself. That I have been consistent as best as I can be. I’ve taken small steps to get to the goal that I want to see.

And it is not my job to impress anybody as I do that.