Is Consistency Stopping You?

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Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

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And I wanted to start out with saying is consistency.

The thing that's stopping you is consistency.

Is your ability not the issue?

Is it just your ability to be consistent?

That's the issue.

There was a quote from the rock to said, success isn't always about greatness.

It's about consistency.

Consistency and hard work leads to success.

Greatness will come after that.

That's the rock.

And so I think what we need to do is just do an audit of how has your level of consistency been with the process?

Not even necessarily with the results because I'm so confident that if you're not lying to yourself

and you're actually being consistent in doing the work that leads to the result consistently, I know the results come.

So the results are going to show.

But how consistent have you been in the process, let's say, over the last 90 days, of the things that in your key metrics?

And whatever your business is, whether you're in the business of professionally trying to punch in choke somebody else as a fighter or a professional coach or a teacher or an athlete or whatever it is, what are your measurable outcomes that you want that you could tie into the process and ask yourself over the last 90 days?

How would I rank myself on a daily and weekly basis to my commitment to the process on a scale of one to 10?

But you can't use seven.

So like on a seven day, like seven days a week in a month, how many of those days are you committed to the process?

Because you could still be committed to the process even if even if you're somebody that says, well, Sunday for work, I'm not doing much work on Sunday.

I'm just giving time to my family. I'm going to church, whatever it is.

There's still the ability to get better in the process, whether it's, I got to bed on time. I got up early. I ate the right foods.

I invested proper focus and time into my into my family. I went to church.

I got up early just so I can have an hour of self development where I poured into myself and overlook my schedule coming up for the week.

And I made sure my meeting for Monday was on point and planned out with fire.

So I planned all that before our day got started. And so there's a way to get better every day and to stay committed to the process every day.

If you're measurable is let me ask you if I were to ask you what your goal was, what percentage of the people that do what you do obtain that goal?

So if it's win a world title, that's less than a, that's probably less than 1% of people.

So what percentage of people typically obtain whatever goal you have in your mind that you're going after?

And then you have to adjust the work accordingly or you have to adjust your goal.

I think when people get better is when the work that they're willing to do does not equal out to what they want.

There's nothing I saw something I forget who said it, but there's nothing worse than a lazy ambitious person.

So like somebody that wants it all, they think big, they want it, they want big, they want greatness, but they don't want to put in the work.

Those are the people that start hating on other people.

Finding reasons why they're successful and you're not in blaming it on things that they're doing that they shouldn't do or cheating or whatever it is when you're not willing to pay the price or you get better and negative towards whatever is going on.

And so I think you got to measure up and say what work am I willing to do?

So if what your goal is is 1% of the world or 1% of the people in your industry does, then you got to be willing to do what 99% of people aren't willing to do.

If you could don't make the goal that big, if you don't want to make the work that big, maybe you say, you know what?

I just want to be top 10%. Well, now you only got to do what 90 or 89 people are not willing to do out of 100 versus 99.

Can you put yourself in the top 10 of the process, not top 10 of what you're telling yourself you're telling is not top 10 of what you used to accomplish 10 years ago.

Top 10 of what you want to accomplish right now, that means if 10 people are doing something, you got to be the one out of 10 that's willing to do something different in the process.

Or you shrink it and say, I just want to be top 20% okay. Now if there's 10 people doing something, you got to make sure that you're the two out of 10 that are taking the right path.

And when you look at it that way, you understand how finite it is to attain the level of greatness that you want, but the exciting thing is it's so achievable, so attainable, it's just, you got to look at it and say out of 10 people, I got to be the one that does the work consistently.

I got to be the one that does or out of the 10, I got to be one of the two.

And the other eight people could take off Saturday, but I got to be one of the two.

And then once you get that mindset part down, then you got to put the work on paper and say, all right, here's what the process is going to require.

This many days of work, this many hours, this many reps, this many meetings, this many this, this many role play sessions, whatever it is,

and schedule it on a week to week basis, have a schedule that already dictates where you'd like to put your time.

And then it comes down to the person in the mirror, am I willing to execute this? Then you just got to execute it.

Now we roll ourself into disciplines, cousin is consistency and consistence is discipline.

And so now we go from, all right, we understand the glue or the bridge to that consistency is now discipline.

Let me give you a picture of discipline and consistency.

So let's say what I'm talking about is you got to be committed to the process seven days a week.

It doesn't mean you got to work 100 hours a week, 15 hours a day, seven days a week.

You got to be committed to the process of, I for sure will get better. I'll do what most people are not willing to do seven days a week.

If you do it seven days a week and let's say somebody else does it five days a week, in the other two days they go backwards.

They don't do anything to get better.

Matter of fact, they do something to get worse.

They took five steps forward. Now they took two steps backward. They got three and you went seven days.

You got seven points. What's the difference in that? A three to a seven.

Double, right? That's 100% increase.

So the person that got focused for two more extra days.

Increase their productivity and growth typically by 100%.

I'm not saying you can't rest on one of those days.

But you could still get better through your discipline of the way that you rest.

Like there's something called active recovery.

So sometimes like let's say I have a Sunday where I'm not doing major heavy lifting work.

I'm going to invest it into my family. I'm going to invest it into going to church. Whatever.

Those are the days where I'm trying to invest it into myself.

Or maybe I'll make sure I still get a book done or I'm listening to some motivation or I get up a little bit early and I plan my week out.

And I make sure that my meetings are on point for Monday. I still do something to get better.

More often than not.

So if you look at yourself and you do that seven days a week for a month that's 28 points right.

And let's say somebody does the five minus two dance. That's three points a week times four weeks. That's 12 points versus your 28 points.

That means you got doubled out of it over just staying focused for two days.

So what would take somebody and it's more than double.

And then that compounds right.

So would take somebody three years to obtain.

You might be able to get that done in one year.

Would take somebody typically 10 years to obtain.

You might be able to get it done in three or four years.

If you're on this approach.

Of it.

Not to mention. Some people they don't they don't just do the five minus two.

They already start Friday going backwards or not doing anything.

So if you're on this Friday Saturday Sunday as three days they go four four word three backwards. They only get one positive.

They're plus one. You're plus seven.

They're plus four at the end of the month. You're plus 28. That's seven X.

So you'll see somebody that's in a business for two years and they accomplished more than somebody that's been there 10 years.

You've seen this happen where you're training as a wrestler or as a boxer as a grappler.

You see somebody that comes every day for two years straight committed locked in.

And they're better than people that have been doing it for 10 years two three days a week.

Or you're in a business situation.

And you watch somebody come in and within two years they've built something bigger than somebody that's been there for 10 years.

It's the exact principle that I'm explaining to you typically.

That's called discipline and consistency.

That's the greatness and the hallmark of excellence we know as consistency.

Even one more day done the right way and not blowing it will make a big difference.

So for example, let's say you're getting in shape and you hire a personal trainer.

Out of seven days a week, how many days do you think they're going to tell you you could have a cheat day?

Probably one day.

And even on that cheat day,

they're not saying from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed, just eat everything in sight.

It may be more like yeah, on that day, you can loosen up a little bit on the carbs, have some pancakes, treat yourself to one thing or you know a couple things.

But it's not like an all day event.

Mayhem.

Definitely ain't two three days.

Or if you just do it by meals, you know, let's say you eat six times a day,

seven days a week, 42 meals, let's say 40 meals.

And you got a personal trainer and you ask your trainer, how many times can I cheat out of 40 meals?

How many meals can I have that are like cheat meals?

They may say three, four.

So that means out of 30 out of 40, you got to have 36 good ones, 90% commitment, 90% discipline to the process.

And it'll show.

You know what I'm talking about?

If you get super disciplined to an exercise regimen and a diet regimen, super disciplined for 60 days, like no cheating at all,

you know what happens if you've done it.

You know what your body looks like.

You know what you feel like saying goes with life.

You people will get blown away at what they can accomplish in a six month period, if they just went all in with discipline and consistency.

And then they had accountability to measure their progress of the process that you have somebody that's holding you accountable.

What is accountability?

Answerable.

To be answerable to somebody or something about what you cut out, what you said that you would do.

Most of the time as an adult, a lot of the people that you have to hold you accountable are people that you pay.

Like you'll pay a nutritionist, you'll pay a personal trainer.

I got a friend of mine in his 40s.

Looks better at 41 than he did at 31.

And he got a personal nutritionist coach.

And every week or two, he got to send him a picture of his body, of the progress.

And I'm telling you, grown man millionaire, he'll be coming up to me freaking out.

Like man, I cheated a couple days ago.

Shouldn't have did that.

I'm just going to starve myself tomorrow.

I ain't going to eat nothing.

I'm going, I'm fastened because I got to take this picture and send it to him.

That's beautiful.

That's called accountability.

But the great, see what's great about that is he sought somebody out and is paying the person to hold him accountable.

To give him the answer is to hold him accountable.

Do you understand most of you have people for free that are coaching you to get better?

That will hold you accountable.

That you're not taking a serious...

as the person that's paying somebody to hold them accountable

and they don't even need to do that.

The difference is this is a high level person.

This is the way you think.

And so the way you think starts at all.

When you hear accountability, when are you here?

Do you run from it?

Do you know you need it?

Have you given somebody in your life responsibility

for accountability?

Have you given somebody your approval of, hey, coach, boss,

friend, mentor?

I want you to know this is my goal.

You have free reign to hold me accountable.

And let's check in once a week or every two weeks.

Let's check in and wear a mat with my progress to the

measurables.

And they know that they're down to hold you accountable.

You got that feeling of like, oh crap in two weeks.

I know I got a week left.

I know this person's going to hold me accountable.

I got three days left.

That's what you need in your life is some accountability if

you want consistency because most people don't have the

discipline without somebody holding them accountable to have

the consistency that's necessary to take their life to the

level that they want to go.

Because anybody can have a great play.

But can you be consistent through the whole game?

Or can you be consistent because anybody really you can

have a good game?

Can you be consistent through a whole season?

Like you at least got to make it through a whole year, a

whole season of consistency.

If you want a big contract in the major league sports,

like you got to put together a season or two of

consistent greatness if you're hoping for a second

contract.

But if you want to go to the next level, the hall of fame,

like there's a difference between, all right, people I

think people athletically can make it to a certain level of

making it to the pros.

You still got to have some discipline and consistency in

your life.

But that athleticism can get you to some places.

So to make it to that level, a lot of people can get by on

just their level of athleticism.

But now to sign the second contract, when you get it, I'm

just going to use NFL as an example.

Second contract in NFL, you had to ball out for three, four

years of consistency.

And so I got I got I earned a second contract, which

typically hired in the first contract.

Now you start to have longevity.

That consistency gets you paid.

That consistency takes you to the next level.

Now you go up to the next notch of like, all right, we're

getting compensated for consistency.

We're a real professional.

We made it because NFL stands for not for long.

3.5 years is the average tenure.

You made it past that your own second contract.

Great.

That was discipline and consistency plus talent.

But then you look at those folks.

And then you got a whole another level of the all pros and the

people that will that'll be talked about or considered for

Hall of Fame.

And I've had an opportunity to learn about be around Hall of

Famers or potential Hall of Famers.

And one thing that stands out to me is that they were all

drafted in different rounds of their undrafted.

It ain't like all the first round draft picks are the ones that

go to the Hall of Fame.

A lot of times the ones that go to the Hall of Fame were not

the first one took.

They were the sixth round draft pick, Tom Brady.

They were the undrafted.

J.J. what?

Was he undrafted?

Think he was undrafted.

Or was he a walk on in college?

Undrafted.

James Harrison.

But the Hall of Famers, the people that are considered talked about

a lot of times what I learned is their work ethic and their

consistency is impeccable.

Because to have to be in a Hall of Famer, it's not a one year deal.

It's not a one game deal.

It's not even a two year deal.

This is like over a lifetime, over a 10 year span, over a 15

year run, over a 20 year run.

What have you accomplished?

Those people have discipline and consistency.

And so if those of you are listening out there, you want to be

Hall of Famers, you've got to have discipline and you've got to

have consistency together.

And some of that comes with you being OK with having people hold

you accountable.

The problem is some people don't want nobody to hold them accountable.

And as soon as somebody starts holding them accountable, they

complain and they're pushing back there instead of woke.

The greats are welcoming accountability and they're consistent in

the process of the work that leads up to the result, not just the

result.

So remember, as we set out this week to be great, we set out this

week to be consistent because the hallmark of excellence and the

test of greatness is consistency.

Don't let consistency be what stops you this week.

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