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Consistency Over Perfection: The Mindset That Fuels Growth

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Working towards any goal whether it’s fitness, career, or personal development can get easy to get caught up in creating the “perfect” plan. Spending unnecessary hours fine tuning parameters, building routines, and designing ideal strategies. All of us experience it at least once but the real best plan is the one you can stick to. It’s not about getting everything perfectly aligned but showing up consistently, even when the conditions aren’t ideal. It’ll be great when the stars align but to wait for it to happen each time can be damaging to your progress.

Perfect parameters can feel comforting, but they often become a form of procrastination. You don’t need the perfect time, environment, or strategy to make progress. Try just starting and keep it going. Each consistent action compounds over time, building momentum and proves that rigid perfectionism can never deliver. The pursuit of perfection can paralyze action, while consistency builds confidence and growth. With consistency allows for adaptation. Being able to adapt to crazy schedule changes or unexpected events makes the unpredictability of life way more digestible. Your energy, schedule, and circumstances will shift towards your favor if you create this consistency. If you’re flexible but consistent, you can continue moving forward even when things change. That means doing what you can with what you have, rather than waiting for perfect conditions. In the long run, the person who keeps showing up wins, not the one who planned the most but hesitated to act. Consistency builds habits, habits build results, and progress thrives in persistence, not perfection.

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Written by:

Dan Aquino

BS, ASFA-CPT

 

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