Consistency Is Overrated

This week I reached over 5000 minutes of meditation. Though I have practiced meditation for several years, I have been wildly inconsistent.

Some days I don’t meditate. Some weeks I don’t meditate. There have been entire months when I haven’t meditated.

If I’d decided that meditation was only worth doing if I showed up every day (or even every week), I would have missed out on these 5000+ minutes of growth and care for myself.

Consistency and accountability have their place, but I’m much more interested in how we can show ourselves compassion. 

In how we pick back up again and again.

In how we can trust ourselves to let things go—or even watch them slip away—and know that we can always circle back.

I truly believe that we don’t have to try so hard.

It’s okay to dabble, to meander, to let things unfold as they will.

To trust that it can all add up to something meaningful and wonderful, even when you think you’ve been an inconsistent mess.

Be gentle, and trust yourself to get there in your own sweet way.