One of the things that most people, including myself, have been guilty of is the lack of consistency. We may make an effort to do something that will help us realize our goals and guess what?  Many of us will simply stop doing the things that are necessary or we may be inconsistent in doing them.

I remember when I was at the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas last year and I watched at the pilot of one of the planes (US Airways) would walk around his plane and do a detailed examination as the maintenance people were working to get it ready.  I later found out that this particular pilot was consistent in making sure his plane was flight ready in every way… He’s never had a problem.  You may have seen the same thing with other pilots.

Another pilot, Captain “Sully” Sullenberger, was the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549.  As was reported in the news and later during his interviews that was transpired during the event were his actions came about from his decades of consistent learning of wanting to improve. Besides piloting a powered aircraft, both commercially and for the military, he also was an accomplished glider pilot.

That came into play during the events of Flight 1549. His whole life was about consistency. Even his academic career he consistently was in the 99th percentile.  He was a consistent learner, especially in aviation and industrial psychology (which he earned his masters in from Purdue University).  He wanted to know as much as he could in the event that something like what happening in Flight 1549 took place.

He and his co-pilot along with the crew, were able to save everybody aboard. His actions during the flight showed what consistency in preparation meant.

Consistency in taking action is important in every category of life. Whether running a business or chiseling away at a block to marble to reveal a statue that lay underneath. Consistent practice on a piano will eventually lead to mastery of it. Consistently eating healthy and exercising will eventually lead to a body that is healthy and fit.

Just do something each and every day, no matter how small or how big.  And if you’ve ever read Aesop’s Fables about “The Crow and the Pitcher”, the premise of it is “little by little does the trick.”  It’s those consistent little actions that lead to the big goal.  And as Brian Tracy says, “Everything counts!  Everything, everything, everything counts.”

So get into consistency….