A person who spends a great deal of energy ignoring the consistent patterns of truth will eventually find themselves at the crossroads of double negative choices. Sooner or later two choices will be pitted against each other and without a consistent foundation of the acceptance of consistency, one of these choices will rub the other one wrong. True success is boring.
It does not matter how true you are trying to be, you will be damned from one of these sides if your truth is inconsistent. However, if consistency is protected at the cost of truth, a collapse of your support system from others will occur. Your leadership will die.
Being true to irregular interests instead of consistent to a single purpose, is also a poor choice. Most fail to recognize what to be true to. Consistency teaches them what is true. Those who fail to try consistency may actually contradict themselves more often than those who try to be “just” consistent.
The true man only professes what he truly practices. If he is not consistent in his practices, he cannot be consistent in what he professes. He will appear inconsistent to others he endeavors to share with his time. They will eventually learn to distrust his actions and stay away from growing too close. Being true and consistent is a combination that adds value to his life.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to set our course by the stars and not by the lights of every passing ship. Omar Bradley
The fellow who is consistently rowing the boat, stoke after stroke, line after line, is not likely to rock the boat and tip it over.
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