One of the best thing I love about writing is the fact that you can improve over time. By investing a little effort, on your grammar, on your vocabulary, on your knowledge and other elements that makes a decent and good post, you're able to develop a skill that requires very little technical knowledge. Considering that almost every technical skill now requires a level of proficiency about a particular software, many techie-but-not-really people like me appreciate the fact that to blog, tweet or e-mail demands very low skill on software use, if not none at all. Improvements, when done regularly, snowballs into great updates on one's knowledge and skill-set.

The most important thing about improvements is consistency. One has to be consistent in what he or she does. It won't be easy to improve on something, especially if you're use to doing procrastinating or worse, just halting things, over and over again. For expert procrastinators, consistency means you do everything at the last minute, on a regular basis. Unfortunately, however, the last minute is not good enough, because you should have spent the first hour to get the task done. Many would argue that it brings out the adrenaline, the best in you, the finest version of you when you do things at crunch time. I'm still wondering if that applies to those whose dreams have been fulfilled.

If there's a characteristic I've observed in great people, is that they have been consistent. No matter what they do or where they are at a stage in their life, they were doing the same thing, improving upon it and mastering along the way. When they have an idea, they don't go on producing more ideas that are just inked and filed, but they act on it. They use all their energies into one thing in order for them to be able to grow what little they have. They are stewards of their abilities by regularly enhancing their mind with knowledge and skills that will complement their over all goal. They are decisive, driven and determined. And they are in that state, although not absolutely all the time, on a regular basis, especially when needed.

Consistency for me is a struggle. Blogging is one thing. I've tried and attempted to maintain a blog, but it never works. I never was able to finally launched something or grow something that has my name on it (or at least not my pseudonym). This will be my attempt to maybe, just maybe, build upon something and finally, grow up.