Funny, twice in a row, who would've thought so?
Three months ago I wouldn't have even made a post about this topic, but today I am because I have been incredibly consistent with work related stuff, but I've been alarmingly inconsistent with everything else in life over the past couple of months.
But today is consistency day.
I already had this post topic in mind but the I got a comment from @jimmy.adames in one of my Threads where I shared how this is my third day walking for over one hour - added up in two sessions - on my home gym's treadmill. He literally replied with the exact words I was going to title this post, so now I had to think of something else, thanks for that Jimmy.
That's exactly why I wanted to make this post. I desperately need to stay consistent in all the aspects of my life that I deem important but for one reason or another I've neglected for way too long.
I used to - and I still do - think that every single one of my posts should have a level of quality high above the median quality of Hive posts, and that in order to get rewards from my publications I should keep a standard. A standard that I have always kept high as fuck - with bad words and all - for very long. This means that I would stop myself from posting low quality stuff even at the expense of getting post rewards, which is something to consider when you have so many people supporting your content day on and day off.
You should see the extent some people go through to keep posting every day or twice a day, no matter what happens, and you should see the rewards they get for content that well... why go down this negative path? I won't continue, sorry about that detour.
You should see the amount of drafts I have on my profile. It's populated with concepts, ideas, half assed posts and many finished posts that I am just not publishing because they are not on par with the content quality I've held myself accountable to for so long.
But I digress, back to consistency. That's the whole point of this post, right? That's why I am making myself post this, because once you get on the proper mindset and you start gaining traction, your posts basically write themselves provided you have a fluent mind, proper knowledge and you have certain writer's abilities to just keep writing.
I used to be able to write a whole post, a quality one, out of any single topic that crossed my mind, and now I am struggling to make this post be at least 1k words. Not that length equals quality... because we've seen in countless occasions how long posts are filled with shit. But if you think about it, when it comes to the Hive ecosystem, length equals quality - and short posts deserve the downvotes while long posts deserve the praise, no matter how good they are or the quality of the writing.
Which is maybe why projects like dBuzz - is that the name? - and other Twitter-like projects built on Hive targeting short form content were never fully adopted, and it is why Threads is getting so much traction now. Short form content that doesn't farm trigger automatic votes and increases engagement on every front, is gold.
I've been using Threads consistently for months now. I have no idea if I am doing so because of the convenience of just going in, writing something, reply to a few other Threads and be done with it for the day, or if I am more consistent there because the expectations - both from other people towards me, as well as from myself towards myself - are low, but maybe it is a mix of both.
Either way, consistency as a mindset is key if we want to excel at anything.
Just look at me, I went from being a 600 ELO chess player to being a percentile 3 a year after - that's above 1500 ELO by the way, in case you are not versed in Chess terms like 99.99% of the population. I got where I am because of consistency. I wish I had the same consistency for everything else though. Had I dedicated half the hours I've put into chess to something else like, say, learning how to code, I would probably be charging $500 the hour as a solidity dev, or I might be on my way to being replaced by chatGPT.
Who knows, either way...
Consistency is key
Picture generated by Dall-e. That's me in my room writing this post, of course.