more consistency

Even though I like to consider myself a very organized and tidy person now, I haven’t always the best at keeping my room clean. In fact, when I was younger, my room was almost always a disaster. If you walked into my room, there was about a 90% chance it wasn’t clean, and you probably couldn’t see the floor most days. However, my mom had a rule that we always had to have the floors cleared for her to vacuum at least once a week. One would think that since I had to have it clean for vacuuming that I’d just consistently clean up after myself, but that was not the case. Every night before vacuum day, I scrambled to clean up my room. Every night after vacuum day, it became a mess again and would regret my decisions a week later when it took an hour to get it back in order. The level of cleanliness in my room was always going from one extreme to another.

My parents would always pester me to just spend a few minutes a day cleaning rather than waiting and letting the mess build-up, but it took me until I was out of the house to figure out that logic. Once I did though, I realized how being consistent about certain things can relieve so much stress. One of the places in my life that I’ve realized I seek the most consistency is in my relationships with others. I’ve recognized that I find myself investing in the people that I know depend on me, and I depend on them for consistency. This might sound like an easy thing to find in a friend, but let me tell you, it’s not. We live in a fast pace and constantly changing society that could care less about being consistent. Relationships, jobs, and places are just used to fulfill momentary wants and desires, and then they’re tossed aside when something better or easier comes along. While there is a lot of value in seeking growth and change, it’s important to consider the things that are meant to be consistent in our lives.

This year has been anything but consistent for all of us, but I think it’s allowed for us to reveal what it is we should allow being consistent with. We should be consistent in our connections with others, regardless of how that happens. We should be consistent in pursuing a higher purpose. We should be consistent with what we choose to root our happiness in. We should be consistent in helping and loving others, and when we do, the consistency we all crave, in some shape or form, will likely come back to us. The

parts of our lives that are constantly shifting can be great, but we all need some level of consistency to ground everything that we are doing. For me, I seek consistency in the people I trust most, the habits I practice morning and night, and the purpose I invest my entire life in that there is more to it all. I know that there will be so much fluctuation in the coming days, months, and years for all of us, but if we choose to find consistency in certain parts of our lives, the rest of it will all fall into place.

What do you need to be more consistent about, and who do you need to be more consistent for this week?

There’s more to consistency.

There’s more to it all.