Entrepreneurship Does Not Need Motivation But The Essence Of Consistency Borne Out Of Positive Habits

The Essence of Habits

Octavia Butler in his book “Bloodchild and Other Stories” said that we must FIRST forget inspiration. That HABIT is more dependable. That Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. That Habit will help you finish and polish your projects. Inspiration won’t. That Habit is persistence in practice.”

How I wish everyone could understand and see just how profound this statement is. I thought inspiration is what drove the engine of entrepreneurship. Ten years into building three of my core businesses, with blood, sweat, and prayers and I realized, with pain in my heart that habits tramp anything from talent to motivation. The engine of habit is daily persistence. Something I wish I had learned in school.

As Aristotle once said, “Excellence is a habit.” I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work that he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. Habits are the ecosystem that creates the needed inspiration.

It does not matter how gifted you are or how talented you are or how connected you might be. From my own experience and from others, consistency in doing something will tramp all these. Hence, consistency is a KEY habit that will lay down the needed foundation for success. Consistency is the denominator of habits.

Habits are the building blocks for sustainable and visible success. The essence that defines success. The reality that puts the aspect of motivation into its right place. Habits create the needed motivation. Not the other way round.

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Baltasar Gracián, in his book titled “The Art of Worldly Wisdom One,” says we should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.” Paradise or hell is at the tip of what habits we create and nurture.

What is a HABIT?

Habit, in psychology, is defined as any regularly repeated behavior that requires little or no thought and is learned rather than innate. A habit—which can be part of any activity, ranging from eating and sleeping to thinking and reacting—is developed through reinforcement and repetition. The essence of consistency in entrepreneurship.

Oxford Dictionary defines HABIT as a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up. Imagine developing amazing awesome habits that drive your business and they become hard to stop or give up. That’s how you create amazing outliers in sectors.