Why Consistency Beats Talent Every Time | Power of Consistency

If you want success at anything in life, this what I'm about to talk about today is the biggest key to success. It's not hustle, it's not genius, it's not IQ, it's not talent, it's not the perfect plan.

It's consistency. It's the slowest, the quietest, the most boring, not sexy thing that you can concentrate on. But it is the most powerful tool in your toolbox for anybody who's trying to build their life into something that matters.

And so in this episode, we're going to unpack a few things: why consistency always wins, even if you're not the best at what you do, why you struggle with being consistent, how consistency is the compound interest of success and the studies that actually prove it, and then how to finally become the type of person who shows up consistently. And so, I'm going to teach you something called cockroach consistency, which sounds really weird, but stay with me, I'll explain what it means. So, let's dive into it. Consistency, why is it the most underrated superpower? Well, let me set the scene for you just to kind of understand it, right? Consistency is like compound interest. If you've ever heard of compound interest, it is as uh Einstein said, the eighth wonder of the world. You got to think about it this way. It's like a a bank account or an investment account.

That you deposit a little tiny bit every single day. And then what happens is over a little bit of time, that becomes a massive amount of money bits inside of that bank account.

Or the investment account. So, let's say that you invest $10 a day, right? That's the price of lunch into a basic S&P 500 index fund. Historically, that fund is going to get you about 8% annually. So, if you put in $10 a day, that's $3,650 per year. If you do that for the next 20 years, well, you will have saved $73,000. But with compound interest, that $73,000 turns into $172,000.

If you keep going for 30 years, that $10 a day turns into $340,000. All from doing one simple tiny thing every single day.

And so I want you to understand, it's not magic, it's compound interest. And that's the same thing that consistency does. Same thing with your investment account, with your body, with your mindset, with your relationships, with your business, the effort looks really, really small today. You don't feel like you completely move the needle today.

But over years, it multiplies, boom, it's exponential pay off.

And so think about it.

You know, if you if you work out once a week, you might feel good for a couple hours, but you're not going to see much difference in your body.

But if you work out four times a week for a year, your body, your energy, your identity, your mindset, all of them are completely different.

It's the same with everything in your life, with the content that you need to create, with your business, with your relationships, with your mindset.

It's the difference between 10 reps and that's just done one time and a thousand reps that are dripped out over weeks.

It's exponentially better.

And it's like Tony Robbins always says, most people overestimate what they can do in a year, but they underestimate what they can do in a decade.

And so the part that most people are not willing to admit when it comes to consistency is that it's not some big flashy thing.

It's not sexy.

It's not it's kind of quiet.

It's mundane.

It's like repetitive.

It's showing up day in, day out, not seeing the reward immediately, but knowing that in the future that reward is coming for you as long as you don't stop.

And so we're so trained on immediate gratification, and consistency is not an immediate gratification thing.

It is a delayed gratification thing.

And so, when you look at the people that you admire, the people who are doing the biggest things in the world.

They didn't just do something once.

They are consistent as hell, like brutally consistent.

You know, if I was a betting man, I would always put my money on the most consistent person, not the most talented person, not the smartest person, not the person with the highest IQ.

None of that.

Talent's overrated.

But the person who does not stop cannot be beaten.

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So let's talk about why you probably and most people struggle with consistency because I always hear, oh, I'm really good at starting something, but I always fall off at some point in time.

If you're like that, you're not broken, you're not lazy, you're just like everybody else.

But let me tell you what's actually happening in this situation.

The first thing it could be is perfectionism, right?

If you can't do it perfectly, you tell yourself, it's not worth doing it at all.

And that is just an unconscious tactic that your brain uses to keep you stuck.

That is classic self-sabotaging inaction right there.

And so you never finish and complete something because you're constantly trying to make it better.

And that is really, more than anything else, something some if you're the type of person that's a perfectionist, you're really somebody who's been being driven by fear, is what it is.

You're afraid of something if you're a perfectionist.

You're afraid of judgment or you're afraid of failure, you're afraid of success, or you're afraid of other people's opinions.

And so what you need to do is you need to figure out if you're a perfectionist and that's what's holding you back from consistency, what's the actual fear that's holding you back?

Remember this, done is better than perfect.

I would prefer 80% effort a thousand times more than 100% effort three times.

So if you feel like you're a perfectionist, remind yourself that you don't want to be perfect, you just want to get it done.

Done is better than perfect.

The next thing that holds people back from being very consistent is this all or nothing thinking.

You know, you you started a gym routine, you go for a couple weeks, you miss a day, and you think, oh, well, I blew it.

That's not discipline.

That's shame pretending to be disciplined.

It is another classic self-sabotage tactic.

So you turn one skipped day or one skipped workout into a story.

Oh, I always mess up.

I'm such a screw up.

I'll always be fat.

I'll always be such a loser.

I never stick to things.

Whatever it is that you say.

That's not truth.

That's just your trauma loop.

And your trauma loop is trying to keep you in the exact same place that you've always been, which is where you currently are.

What's really happening is that your brain is become addicted to extremes, and it thinks if it's not perfect, it's pointless.

But once again, that's some sort of fear that's driving you in some sort of way.

So you need to become aware of the fears, the fears of judgment or opinions, fear of success, fear of failure.

What's the fear that's driving this all or nothing thinking?

Because that mindset is the very thing that's killing your progress.

All or nothing people usually end up with literally nothing.

You don't usually end up with all of it if you're an all or nothing type of person, right?

And so the reframe that you want to kind of take is, yeah, you missed a day, but just because you missed a day doesn't mean you failed.

When you miss a day, you make micro adjustments.

That's what you do.

Missing a few days and not getting back up, that's the failure.

Failure is not messing up one time.

Failure is messing up and not getting back on the horse.

The real flex is bouncing back when you do screw up.

Success is not this perfect streak over years of your life.

It's the speed that you recover after you screw something up.

And so let the new rule that kind of guides you to be, hey, it's okay to mess up one day, and you know, to to to miss the gym one day, but never miss two days in a row.

For whatever it is.

It's okay to not write one day, but I'm never going to miss two days in a row.

So you can at least make sure you're you're batting above 500.

You're you're more than 50% of the time you're showing up.

What's another thing that holds you back with this?

You know, trying to be consistent, emotional avoidance.

Most people think that they have a consistency problem, but in reality, what they really have is a feelings problem.

You know, so, so they avoid consistency because it triggers emotions that they haven't learned to sit with, like what I've been saying, the fear of success.

What if I become successful and I can't keep it up?

Or the fear of being seen.

What if people actually notice me?