5 Things to go from Good to Great

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Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

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We're going to go over five things real quick, five things that take a person from good

to great in anything.

Whether it's business, fitness, marriage, leadership, mindset, faith, all of it.

These are, to me, universal, repeatable principles that should apply to all different things.

So first one we're going to cover is self-honesty, keeping it real with yourself.

Let's call it that, right?

Self-being ruthless with yourself and really looking yourself in the mirror, in auditing

some of your habits, auditing some of the things that you do, things that you say, you know,

and I feel like if you want to be okay or you want to be good, you can just stay in

that position to comfort and not really take a deep dive and looking at yourself in the

mirror.

But if you want to be great, it starts with when you look and tell yourself the truth.

Where you're slipping.

Where are you being inconsistent?

Where are you relying on talent instead of discipline?

And I think most people lie to themselves about their effort, but the greats don't.

The greats call themselves out.

Even if you don't see it happen in publicly, they call themselves out when they know that

they're not giving max effort.

They know that they're not being all that they could be giving all that they can give.

The great thing is going to be learning to accept and embrace consistency, which means

you got to master the boring stuff.

That's basically what we mean by consistency is, this my mentor always says that the test

of greatness, so the test of greatness, it means if you want to be great, here's the test.

The hallmark of excellence is consistency of not, cannot be great for a month, not

can be, cannot be great for a year, cannot, cannot be great consistently.

Greatness isn't energy.

It's repetition.

The boring reps over, over, over, over again, the early mornings, the extra 10% that you

give, showing up consistently, making yourself get fired up to just take the reps that are

boring after you've done it over and over and over again, consistency beats intensity every

time.

Number three, seeking out the hard things on purpose.

Think about it.

People that you admire that have taken things to the next level in anything and you'll see

what I'm talking about, but just seek out hard stuff on purpose.

Good, if you want to just stay good or be decent, you just avoid the struggle.

But greatness, you choose the struggle.

And I think the more you learn to do hard things, the more confident that you become, the

more resilient that you become.

And you start to build that identity that says, I do what others won't do.

That's what greatness is.

And to me, that identity becomes your competitive advantage is that I'm willing to do what other

people ain't willing to do.

Most people ain't willing to do what I'm willing to do.

And it's that confidence that breeds the success over time.

Number four is having high standards.

High standards for yourself, high standards for things that you're going to accomplish,

high standards for the output in your mind and the back of your head making it like a non-negotiable.

To me, greatness comes from having standards, not just goals.

Here's my goal.

You know, my goal is, that's great, that's your goal.

But you go fall to the level of your standards.

So goals are hopes.

Standards are like rules.

Like we're going to make this happen.

This is my standard.

We're not going to make anything less.

We're not going to do anything less.

This is the standard.

Examples of elite standards would look like this.

My standard is I don't skip workouts.

The standard is I don't lower my character.

Just examples.

I don't complain.

I don't negotiate with excuses about why it's okay for me to be lazy.

To me, the standards that you set become your ceiling.

So if you set low standards, then you're going to hit your head on a low ceiling.

If you set high standards, the higher the standards, the higher the ceiling is, the higher

things, the bigger things you can accomplish.

And the fifth one we're going to cover.

Last one, fifth one we're going to cover is that you build, you build an environment around

you that forces growth.

What does that mean?

Build an environment around you that forces growth.

Well, to me, you know, again, you look at average environments, good environments create

comfort.

Great environments create pressure.

Great environments create accountability.

Great environments create momentum for you.

But a lot of times that environment that creates greatness that takes you to the next level,

people run from.

They don't want the pressure.

They don't want the accountability.

They don't want the competitiveness.

They don't want the intensity.

All that stuff is what it takes in order to go to the next level.

So you got to put yourself in those environments.

And who you become is really the people, places, and things.

You know, like the people that you hang around, the places that you put yourself in, the habits

that you create for yourself is what creates you.

You surround yourself with winners.

And suddenly winning and doing the things that creates winning becomes normal.

No different than, you know, like my son, I try to put my son in environments that he's

eight years old.

I'm putting them in harder classes.

I'm putting them around people.

I told him the other day, went to wrestling.

And I'm like, man, I want you to pick the toughest ones.

I want you to try to win, but I want you to pick people that you lose to all the time.

Those are the ones I want you to go with.

If you get five, I want you to pick the best five you can go with.

Put yourself in an environment that you're going to get uncomfortable because when you

keep going with the grades and you start watching what the grades do and you get used to

being around the grades and pushing around the grades, then when you get to normalcy, everything

else becomes easy.

And so my wish for you, my hope for you because you've already invested the time to be here

with us is that you go from good to great.

I want you to just audit yourself in these five areas this week.

Maybe write down some goals, some standards of like, all right, here's some things in

each area that I know I can grow in and I can put action to.

We can't just listen to these things and then go on about our day.

It's like, what are you going to execute from this?

What can you implement from this?

Because my hope for you is that we would go from good to great together consistently.

So I appreciate you as always.

The only ask I have is can you share this if there was value add, don't just do it for

the heck of it.

But if you think there's somebody out there that we can impact and maybe would find value

from this, share it with them and I appreciate you.

As always, you could have been doing anything else with the last 10, 15 minutes.

I've alone we've been on here and you chose to be here with us and so we appreciate it.

So grateful for the bottom of my heart.

Thank you for joining us on another episode of the Grand Casse.

Get ready.

It's a new day.

We'll see you guys next week.