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I used to chase many things.
Many skills.
Many ideas.
Many shortcuts.
But mastery whispered
Only one word
Consistency.
One thing.
And one thing only.
Not intensity.
Not talent.
Not motivation.
Consistency.
I remember what Bruce Lee once implied
He didn’t fear the man
Who practiced ten thousand different kicks once.
He feared the one
Who practiced one kick
Ten thousand times.
Repetition
Builds familiarity.
Familiarity
Builds precision.
Precision
Builds confidence.
Confidence
Builds mastery.
One inch punch
Wasn’t magic.
It was memory
Built into muscle.
Decision
Built into instinct.
Movement
Built into identity.
Nature does the same.
One water droplet
Seems harmless.
But ten thousand
Fall in the same place —
Rock begins to surrender.
Not to force.
But to persistence.
Out-of-box thinking
Isn’t doing something new
Every day.
It’s doing the same
Important thing
Relentlessly.
Writing daily.
Training daily.
Learning daily.
Showing up daily.
Consistency
Ignores mood.
Consistency
Ignores applause.
Consistency
Ignores boredom.
Because progress
Is quiet.
Until suddenly
It isn’t.
Results appear
Gradually.
Then unexpectedly.
Like stone breaking
Without warning.
Like speed emerging
Without thought.
One thing
Repeated
Transforms.
Skill becomes habit.
Habit becomes identity.
Identity becomes outcome.
So I choose
One thing.
And I do it
Again.
And again.
And again.
Until effort
Becomes nature.
And nature
Becomes mastery.