Mundane action with radical consistency

I don’t brush my teeth every day, but once a year I spend all day brushing them to remove all the plaque at once.  

Do you see how ridiculous this sounds? 

Yet we apply this strategy to many areas of our lives. 

We don’t make content consistently because we have a delusion that one day we’ll have all the time we need to make content. We don’t invest regularly because we have a delusion that one day we’ll have a windfall invest all at once. We aren’t grateful for what we have today because of our delusion that one day we’ll have everything we ever wanted and be grateful all at once. 

“We say ‘Things will finally slow down after this week’ every week until we die.” A wise person I know once said this. He also says, “Success is not about radical action but about mundane action done with radical consistency.” 

Whatever it is you’re putting off, I’m confident to say you won’t achieve it unless you start slowly integrating it into your life now. Start with just enough to complete it every day, then slowly increase it. Mundane action. Radical consistency. 

This is the way. 

P.S. I brush my teeth twice every day. Actually, some days I skip brushing before I fall asleep. That happens about once a month. Ok, so for the record, I brush my teeth 1.97 times per day, on average.