Guys, Josh here to give you some double quick-and-dirty examples of people who don’t live a consistent life, and fast track you on the way to a solution.
What a shame! A new poll from Buford Schuck Research Associates shows that 84% of American’s don’t live a consistent life.
And nowhere is this seen more than in the area of American vices.
>>> FUN FACT: If you’re struggling to decide between the road of vice and the road of virtue, you are nine times more likely to be able to live consistently by following the path of vice.
Let’s take a look at some crazy examples
Your average liar
Such a person lies with inconsistency—content to tell the truth while only here and there peppering conversations, emails, and patient documentation with a fib.
It’s hard to respect a liar who can’t be bothered to bring out the lie more than once or twice a week.
Your workplace thief
A paperclip here, a stapler, two or three pens—and this over weeks and months, stricken of enthusiasm, laden with guilt. If you’re going to steal, steal big. If you’re going to pinch, make a plan and get to work right away, without hesitation, without delay.
Maybe you should even set quotas for your sticky fingers to that you can stay in practice but also make sure you’re not lagging behind.
As the Pink Panthers say, life is short, theft is long.
Respecting such a thief is as difficult as respecting a senator known for telling the plain truth and only sometimes obfuscating.
The Manipulative Wife
Then we meet the wife who manipulates her husband every now and then, but most of the time goes along with what he wants.
Have the decency to manipulate with regularity.
No wonder her husband has fallen out of love with her and taken up with the freshman trollop; he never knows what to expect and must be chagrined at her failure to live a simple and consistent life.
Politician’s Flip-Flopping Fail
Like a great hemorrhoid on one’s anus, politicians so obtrude that I bring them up again to mention a plague among congresspersons of all stripes: the failure to consistently flip-flop.
Sometimes we witness a consistent Congressional flip-flopper; most of the time a position is struck and held.
Where have the true flip-floppers gone? Those whose Yes will be No, and whose No, Yes, just give it time?
And where are those who flip-flop on flip-flopping? Where are those who announce that they did not flip-flop, then flip-flop to say they did flip-flop, then flip-flop again to say that they did not flip-flop but only after flip-flopping on flip-flopping?
Awesome Solution: Live a Consistent Life with the Pick and Stick Method
With so many pitfalls, here’s a sure solution to help you become a person of consistency and live a consistent life.
I call it the Pick and Stick Method.
- Pick a vice you like or are driven to of necessity.
- Stick to that vice at all times without wavering. It is your raison d’etre, your modus vivendi, your calling card. Don’t leave home without it.
“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still.”
Be a true thief, a truly manipulative wife, a true flip-flopper, a true practitioner of vice.
Then you will restore our faith that somebody, somewhere, can be counted on to live a consistent life.
