A Rut

Often consistency is really a rut by some other name.  "Consistency" has a much more positive tone to it.  "Rut" sounds so bad.  How do you know you are in a rut that you are trying to call, "being consistent?"  I find that a meditative/scripture based spiritual life of prayer can be a good guide.  Here, you feel God calling you into another direction, or pace, or place.  Don't jump on it.  See if it passes.  If it is from God, it will not go away.  Then bounce it off of some friends.  True friends, discerning friends will not let their agenda, their consistencies, get in the way of being open to you.  YOu might then try some shifts or changes of patterns that are not radical, but are shifts none the less.  Some people might object, saying, "But I rely on you."  This is often another name for being lazy.