without a miss!
The FIRST Freedom Focused SAL blog article was published on October 8, 2013—over a dozen years ago.
Publishing was robust and regular at given intervals along the way, but overall it proved intermittent and sporadic over the first seven (7) years. That all changed on August 31, 2020, when I determined it was time to make the blog more CONSISTENT and predictable moving forward.
From that day onward until TODAY, I have not missed a week—for 300 consecutive weeks—a practice that has helped to further define Freedom Focused as an organization by clarifying its features and sharpening its focus as we march onward confidently and courageously into the future.
Roger Federer has many gaudy statistics and achievements to his name, including 103 professional tour-level tournament victories and 20 Grand Slam titles. Among these and other remarkable achievements as a professional tennis player stands a record that rises far-and-away above everyone else, including the other two members of the "BIG 3"—Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal—his greatest opponents who are widely considered to be, along with Federer, the best men's players in tennis history.
Indeed, it is a record that may never be broken in the future.
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| Federer was a grass court specialist, but he had to be elite on hard courts and clay courts to achieve his untouchable feat of 237 consecutive weeks as world #1. |
Second place to Federer in this nonpareil record is Jimmy Connors at only 160 weeks—not even close!
I have always been inspired by this unique record of both consistency and dominance—and have striven diligently to emulate this same kind of elite performance in my own life and career.
Unlike the mighty Roger Federer, I have no world championships to my name. However, it feels good—and is good for my self-worth—to practice and then achieve milestones of consistency in my life and work.
In all, Roger Federer spent 310 weeks as the number ONE (#1) tennis player in the world, good for second place all-time to Novak Djokovic's otherworldy 428 weeks. However, despite Novak's overall dominance as world #1, Djokovic's best streak of consistency atop the world standings was only 122—not even close to Federer's extraordinary 237.
As a forever Federer fan, I take great pride in this unsurpassed achievement of his!
No matter what activities or endeavors I have attempted and pursued throughout my life and career, I—like Roger Federer—have learned through experience the incredible importance and value of a simple consistency.
Truly, CONSISTENCY is KEY to my mastery and success as a writer, speaker, organizer, and leader—just like consistency was key to Roger Federer's mastery and success on the tennis court.
SAL Mantra
CONSISTENCY is KEY
This simple mantra is true of virtually everything in life for YOU and everyone else, including:
Academics and learning,
Artistic, athletic, musical, and other performances,
Financial interest and prosperity,
Habit formation and breaking,
Health, wellness, fitness, weight loss, and maintenance,
Relationship building, cultivation, nurturance, and troubleshooting, and
Skill development of all kinds.
Jim Rohn—that famous business philosopher of the 20th century—once noted the following about SUCCESS and failure...
"Success is a few simple disciplines practiced every day."
—Jim Rohn
"Failure is a few simple disciplines neglected every day."
Once you have developed a habit, consistency gets easier. The hard part is usually developing a good habit—or breaking a bad habit—in the first place.
That's HARD WORK and can be temporarily discouraging!
Habit formation (or breaking) really can be difficult. It takes a lot of up-front effort, energy, focus, will power, and accountability. But, if you are willing to push through these challenges, you will be rewarded with good, strong, and helpful habits that will bring you proficiency and success in whatever you set out to do.
It feels really good to have exercised the discipline to have achieved the consistency of 300 consecutive weekly published articles on the SAL blog. At Freedom Focus this is definitely an achievement worth celebrating!
What is something in YOUR life or career that you would like to accomplish or achieve?
What "simple (or not so simple) disciplines" will YOU need to "practice every day" and what new habits will you need to develop in order to realize your vision, accomplish your mission, or achieve your goal?
We encourage you to begin doing whatever it takes to develop this habit, beginning TODAY!
To help inspire you in your efforts, consider the words of a famous poem entitled, HABIT...
HABIT
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I am completely at your command.
Show me exactly how you want something done,
And after a few lessons I will do it automatically.
And alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
Plus the intelligence of a person.
It makes no difference to me.
And I will place the world at your feet.
I am HABIT!
—Dr. JJ
Author's Note: This is the 517th Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013 and the 300th consecutive weekly blog published since August 31, 2020.
Click HERE for a compete listing of the other 516 FF Blog Articles
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Click HERE for a complete listing of Freedom Focused SAL POEMS
Click HERE to access the FULL TEXT of Dr. JJ's Psalms of Life: A Poetry Collection
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