Doing it repeatedly

Consistency is you doing something over and over again, repeatedly to achieve a purpose or goal.

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I do this thing where whenever I'm about to take my bath, I always make sure to have a song on just so that I could have my own private concert in my bathroom. Well today, just as I was scrolling through my phone, trying to find the perfect song to put on, I saw a song that I wasn't very familiar with and this was because I had only just downloaded it last night.

Funny enough, when I first heard that song on tiktok, I hated it because it wasn't the kind of music that I like, but then some girls on tiktok had turned it into a dance trend and everywhere I looked for the past week or so, I saw someone dancing to the song online...and for some reason I found myself singing along to it, and that was when I knew I had to have it on my phone.

Thinking about it, I knew there was no way I would have ended up getting the song on my phone if I had only heard it once and didn't see it anywhere online again, but because it was everywhere I looked, it felt like I had no choice but to actually give it a listen and due to how frequent it was online, I found myself liking it.

What I'm trying to say is that most times in life, when we do something for the first time, we may or may not like it, but if we keep on doing it, keep on forcing ourselves to keep at it, a time is going to come where we would find ourselves liking that thing.

Sometimes it gets even better because the further we keep at it, the easier it gets because we start to learn shorter and easier ways on how to get the work done and then before we know it, things that usually takes hours for us to get it done, we find ourselves during it in a few minute.

A good example was back in the day when I recently starting learning ui/ux design, I remember how hard it used to be back then for me to do even the most basic stuff, but then as time went on, I got introduced to certain command keys and shortcuts that made the work a lot easier but still gave the same or even better results.

Another example was this video I saw online of some work working on these oil rigs on the ocean. It's one of those works that required them connecting and disconnecting heavy metals that went up and down while covered in grease. One look at that work and you'd work that it's a very difficult thing to do but if you saw the way those men in that video went about the whole thing like they were making music and all of the cords were just connecting seamlessly, you would it wasn't real.

But the truth is that they've been doing that thing for so long that they almost could now do it with their eyes closed. And what's crazy is that this works for almost anything you put your mind into, be it something right or wrong, but hopefully we only use that mindset for the right things.