What if success had little to do with how old you are, the amount of education you have or the degree of experience you possess?

After all, these are the three biggest excuses most people use for not succeeding.

The truth is that there is one primary reason why people fail to accomplish what they want to in life:

The lack of consistency.

When all is said and done, it always comes down to “dropping the ball”, getting distracted or just plain giving up, before the goals are reached. Most people abandon their goals and dreams. They stop applying themselves consistently toward the accomplishment of what they tell themselves they desire.

Consistency is the most powerful guarantee of success.

The reason is, it creates momentum in your life. Movement in both mental and physical action which is focused on a specific outcome. Break the momentum and you have to exert the energy necessary to overcome inertia. It always requires more energy to move a body at rest than it does to maintain the momentum of a body that is already motion. It’s a basic law of physics.

Many failures are the direct result of several starts and stops. Each re-start becomes more difficult because it requires more and more energy. One day, there is simply no more energy or desire left.

What is consistency?

Being focused and taking action toward a specific goal or dream everyday. The biggest payoff of consistency is that it is both leveraged and cumulative. A little bit of focus and action builds from day to day. Over time you will find the the small but consistent focus and actions you take always result in a much larger reaction than the time you spent any given day. It’s like laying one brick each day.

Over time, your consistency will result in your creating and building a wall that would have been impossible to erect. with only the time and energy you had invested in a given day…

Consistency also minimizes starts and stops. Consistency is the most efficient use of both your time and energy.

-Bob Baran