It is all about consistency. Achieving long term goals does not happen overnight. Maintaining and improving progress does not come without process. I sat down and thought about my very specific goals for my Efficient She Blog. My goal is to post one entry per week for one year. I needed to pick a weekly due date to hold myself accountable.  

I thought about what day of the week has been the most consistent in my life… Immediately I thought it would be Monday. It was when I kicked off and set the tone for my work week. But after much thought and to my surprise, I came to find that it is Thursday. Watching Grey’s Anatomy on Thursday nights has been a consistent process for me. Longer than my career, my decade long relationship with my husband and even longer than any city that I have ever lived in.  

Now I would love to say that my consistency for the last sixteen years involved an exercise, diet, or a skin care regimen instead of watching TV. But as I reflect, I am thankful that through the many ups and downs and changes through those years, I took at least one hour per week for my own self-care. It was something just for me. Though I will never love another season as much as the first two, and characters come and go, watching Meredith change and evolve has remained.  While my husband questions how many times a character can have a near death experience, I appreciate the creativity to keep the show going and Meredith alive for my sake.  

So here is a tribute to my high school girlfriends who watched on the little TV at our friend’s Taekwondo Academy that we hung out at. To my college friends who would watch in the dorm basement and fix our eyeliner before going out for “Thirsty Thursday.” To my roommates watching in my first house after college in our living room. To my boyfriend (who is now my husband) who binge watched with me for weeks to catch up to join me. To my mom and sister with dinner and wine after a day at work. To binge watching all over again during my first maternity leave, to have something familiar playing in the background as I sorted through my new identity as a mom. And to now watching on the DVR after the kids go to sleep, curled up in a blanket on the couch with a cup of tea… Okay who am I kidding, wine, yes wine. And to Shonda Rhimes, thank you. 

So outside of me reflecting on the memories, the point of all of this is to be consistent in making time for yourself. I challenge you to reflect on your personal growth from something you have been consistent with, to start or restart something you love with a specific goal and to join me on Thursdays as I grow, change, and navigate through my new consistent self-care routine!