{"id":4083,"date":"2021-01-22T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/frontiers\/?p=4083"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T07:31:10","slug":"consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/frontiers\/consistency\/","title":{"rendered":"Consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Being consistent means keeping a promise to yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we are not consistent, we are breaking promises. We lose the power of our handshake agreements to ourselves. 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