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title: "Consistency"
description: "Starting is easy. Consistency is hard."
source: "Preetam Nath"
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published: "2020-06-08"
updated: "2021-01-24"
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# Consistency

People say getting started on something new is the hard part.

For someone who starts a lot of things, I say getting started is actually the easy part.

Doing it over and over again? Now that’s hard.

Getting started and exercising for 5 days, or 30 is easy.

Doing it for 365 days in a row? Now that’s hard.

I have been writing daily for just 6 days. The first 5 were easy. Today, I almost failed and skipped.

But I didn’t.

Someone reminded me that I’m unlikely to beat out a brilliant piece if I write just now.

But I am definitely unlikely to write a brilliant piece without maintaining this consistency.

So here I am, writing about consistency because it’s all I thought about for the past 30 minutes before I sat down to write.

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## About Preetam Nath

Preetam Nath is an entrepreneur and indie software builder. He writes about building profitable SaaS businesses while leading a good life, from first-hand experience: he co-founded SuperLemon, a WhatsApp plugin for Shopify stores that grew to $25k MRR, and DelightChat, a customer support product for ecommerce and D2C brands.

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