Consistency Over Perfection

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The word is consistency over perfection. When I first started on YouTube, it would take me 5 hours to make a twominute video. Why? Because every time I started after saying the first sentence, I would stop and redo it again because either I said it wrong, it didn't sound authentic or real, or it just didn't feel right. So, I would do that over and over again until I felt like I got it right. And honestly, by the end of it, it wasn't real. It wasn't authentic because it was rehearsed over the course of 5 hours. And so over the last few years, I felt like the Lord has been leading me to get to this place of talking authentically to you on camera because we're real people, right? We're all trying to progress in life. And you see on social media, things are perfect in other people's lives. A pastor once said, "We are so in the midst of everything, we see everybody else's highlight reel and think that is life." It's not true. So, how can we take a step today, not toward perfection, but with progress? What is one step we can take? Whether it's posting the social media clip without spending hours and hours recording it or editing it, and just being real, asking people questions like, "What is the thing you feel called to do right now?" Maybe it's, "I don't have enough time to be able to record content." Me neither. I'm running on a treadmill right now. I have to be able to exercise. Just saying, "Gee, I'm also fighting through a cancer diagnosis right now." So, what other time are we going to sacrifice? Because we have to have things perfect. Let's take a step toward progress today, not perfection. Consistency is the word. Not how do we do it once, how do we do it over and over and over again. And sometimes it does require us to do three things. One, we already talked about it. Multitask. Again, it doesn't have to be perfect. You could do it while you're walking. You could do it while you're getting ready to go to bed at night or if people do makeup routines, all those types of things. So figuring out how it can work in the current flow of your day. Second, it doesn't have to take forever. Give yourself 5 minutes, whatever maximum amount of time that you're going to use to do it. Give yourself that and make sure that you're hitting it in that window and post it. Do whatever it is, whether it is posting on social media or just doing the thing and getting it done, do it within that window. And then finally, have some type of accountability system. Whether that's telling a friend to help hold you accountable or something reminding you on your phone, like a reminder saying something like, "Hey Siri, remind me every day at 8:00 that I need to do this." And something that you can check off your list showing that your progress and something that is reminding you, right? So today, I would love to hear from you. What is the one thing that you can do today to take a step toward consistency and progress?