Consistency ≥= Quantity
You can have both, but you don’t have to
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You wake up to find your routine is about to be disrupted. You realize you have to leave early for work to take your spouse to the airport for a business trip. Your daughter didn’t sleep well last night and is a cranky mess that needs extra attention. Or maybe you’re the one that didn’t sleep well last night and stayed in bed for an extra half hour.
We are creatures of habit and routine helps us be consistent in our lives and produce content or products that we care about, even when we don’t feel motivated or inspired. Yet we are also creatures that thrive on producing quality work. No one that is honest with themselves can look back and be proud of something that they put in half or minimal effort on. As a species, we didn’t evolve into highly complex societies with groundbreaking technology and innovations by half assing it. We got here through both consistency and quality.
Yet sometimes quality may simply not be in the cards for us on every given day. A large part of progression is making mistakes and learning from them, but you will never be able to learn if you are not consistent. If you avoid work because you are not ‘feeling it’ or you don’t have the time, you will reduce your ability to produce quality work because you aren’t allowing yourself the opportunity to learn from mistakes through low quality work. There’s also the potential that creating from a place of adversity will provide high quality work. We are humans that thrive on emotions and maybe those same emotions preventing you from producing will enable you to connect with the an audience or customer that is feeling the same way.
The point is, do not wait for your perfect moment, and if you are feeling stressed or uninspired, create anyways. Embrace those emotions as a part of the process. Maybe the quality will suffer and you will learn from it, but it also might become your next masterpiece.
