I Can Be Consistently Inconsistent

I hit the walking track this morning for the first time in several days. Walking is good. It’s healthy for your body and gives you uninterrupted thinking time. One thought led to another. Yes, I really do need to make the effort to walk every day, or at least more often. When the word consistent popped into my head, I remembered a statement I heard years ago at a seminar, “You may not be consistent, but you can be consistently inconsistent“. Okay, I can do that.

I may not walk every day, but I do walk. I may not write daily like I should, but I still write. Sometimes, I even get a touch of consistency with my writing, for a week, or a month, or a year before life intervenes and disrupts the pattern. I am consistently inconsistent. Sometimes I’m slow. Sometimes I stall altogether, but words do get written. I haven’t quit.

I even have times where the words flow so effortlessly that I have to depend on my family to make sure I come out for meals. I wish those times were far more often, and I’ll bet you do too. That’s what the Blog Challenge is all about. It helps build habits of daily writing, or restores lost ones.

It’s encouraging, I think, that even when we can’t be consistent, we can be consistently inconsistent and still move forward.

Happy Writing