Keeping the main thing the main thing!

A few years ago my friend Greg Gray told me that the primary focus should be to make the main thing the main thing. I finally got it. I used to have several things going on at once and I thought that it was impressive. I thought that that was just the way that I was and that I needed to have all of these things going on in my life to be productive.
Something happened with one of those things and I took some time to reflect and ask myself if I really needed to do it right now or if I should finish up the first project before I started something else. I finally realized that I should focus on the first thing alone and ride it to completion before starting something else.

What is consistency?

I have learned many lessons throughout my life and the one lesson that I have seen pay off over and over is the lesson of consistency. Too often people start a task quickly expending a lot of time and effort. When they don't see the results that they had hoped for they get discouraged and quit.
I have learned time and time again that consistency is key. It doesn't matter how fast you start but how long that you persevere. Think of the story of the tortoise and the hare. They took off. The hare quickly built a large seemingly insurmountable lead. The tortoise was much slower than the hare, but he was consistent. As you remember, the hare became complacent and eventually the tortoise passed the hare with slow, consistent steps.