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Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another episode. And if you're committed to making 2026 the best year of your life, join my free two day high performance live workshop this January 14th and 15th where I'm going to teach you the real life tools to stop procrastinating, to take action, follow through and get the results that finally match the potential you know that you have. You're going to leave with the mindset success systems and habits to build the version of you that you know that you're meant to be this year. So go to 2026workshop.com to register for free once again, 2026workshop.com today I'm going to be talking about how consistency is the key to your success. Now I will put all of my money, all of the time on a consistent person over a motivated person. What's really interesting is that people always ask me how to get more motivated, but very rarely do people ask me the question of how do I just stay consistent? For some reason everybody thinks that they want to be motivated and I'm here to tell you you don't want to be motivated if you're sitting there thinking that you need to be motivated before you take any action. You will not get what you want in this world. But you're not searching for motivation. You're searching for consistency. You're searching for for how can I be the person that shows up for myself, for my business, for other people every single day? Cause motivation is kind of like it's kind of like a sugar rush, right? It gives you a quick burst of energy and then it just fades as quick as it came in. If you rely on motivation, you'll only take action when you, quote, unquote, feel like it. And if you only take action when you. If I only took action when I felt like it, I would not be anywhere where I want to be. And I don't think any person would be where they want to be if they only took action when they feel like it. That is the fastest way to fail. Success doesn't come from waiting for the right feeling. It comes from moving forward, especially when you don't feel like it. It comes from saying, hey, I said I was going to do this. I need to get it done. I don't necessarily feel like it, but my feelings should not dictate my actions because my actions are going to dictate the life that I want. So I need to take the right actions. So what you want is you want to be consistent. Consistency wins. When I look at someone who is extremely successful, whether it's in business, whether it's in the relationship, whether it's a professional athlete, it is the person who is the most consistent that always wins. I will always bet, and I'm not a betting man, but if I were a betting man, I would always bet on the consistent person over the motivated one. Motivation is fleeting. It's sometimes here. Most of the time it's not. But I want to be the person who's consistent, who shows up every single day. Think of like the gym, for instance. The person who works out three times a week for an entire year will always beat the person who works out seven days a week for a month and then quits. Motivation is the spark. Consistency is the fire that just keeps burning long after the spark has gone away, long after the motivation has disappeared. So anybody can start something, and most people are really good at starting something. And you can start it when you're excited, but few people can keep it going after the excitement is gone. And so consistency is a character trait that we want to build within ourselves. And just FYI, consistency doesn't mean you have to win 100% of the time. Like, you have to show up every single day for the next thousand days. That's really hard to do. But you need to be more consistent more than you're not consistent. It's kind of like James Clear. One of the quotes that I love from him is that every action that you take is a vote for the person that you wish to become. And he talks about voting and it's like a person, in order to be elected, doesn't have to get 100% of the votes, they just have to get the majority of the votes. And so can you make sure that the majority of your actions are consistent, of you taking the action that you need to to get what you want? So if you're trying to lose weight, I don't expect you to work out every single day for this entire year. That's hard to do. But can you make sure that you show up four days a week, five days a week? Consistency is a character trait. Consistency is not something that you're built with and born with. It's something that you develop within yourself and it becomes part of who you are. It's not pre wired into you. Nobody's born consistent. It's built through habits and it's built through discipline. If you don't have the life that you want, be more disciplined, be more consistent. And because of the fact that it's not pre wired, it means that you can develop it no matter who you are, no matter how great your life is, no matter how crap your life is right now. The most successful people in the world are not the ones that are the most talented or the most gifted. They're the ones that show up every single day. And if you look at it like the thing that I love about sports is that you can see people who are extremely talented get drafted into the NFL number one, for instance, and then they don't work and they disappear into oblivion. They have so much talent but doesn't last. But then you see people like, you know, Tom Brady, who is think drafted like number 199, but he is the most consistent. And he still works out in the mornings, puts up his videos on YouTube and on Instagram and stuff like that, doing the same workouts as if he is going to go back and play a game on this Sunday. So the people who win long term are not the ones that are most gifted, the most talented. They're the ones that put in the work for the longest amount of time. And so what I would recommend is to plan your life as if most days you're not going to be motivated and most days you're not going to want to do it. You may be motivated, you may not be motivated, but when you focus on consistency, when you focus on just planning to get it done no matter what, you win, when you hope and pray that tomorrow. I hope and pray that I'm motivated to grow my business. If you think that way you're going to lose. If you're waiting to feel motivated, it's like waiting for the perfect weather to go on a run. If you're waiting for that, you're never going to get started. Consistency is about creating the momentum so that even on the bad days, you can still take action. All right, well, I was going to go running today. The weather looks like trash. So you know what? I'm just going to walk up and down my stairs for the next 30 minutes. You're still going to get it done. It's not going, oh, it wasn't what I wanted it to be. So I guess I'm going to skip. It's like, no, I'm still going to do it because I said I was going to do it. I'm going to figure out a way. And expecting motivation every day, it's just not realistic. Expecting yourself can be consistent is where the real power is. So if I'm on a weight loss journey, I can work out when I'm motivated. But what happens on the days that I don't feel like working out, that's where most people quit. Motivation says, oh, I'll go when I feel like it. Consistency is the feeling of I go no matter what. Think about that for a second. Motivation. Oh, if I feel like it, I'll do it. Consistency is, I go no matter what. No matter what I feel like, no matter what the weather is, no matter what the world is happening around me, I do it no matter what. That is the mindset that you have to have for whatever it is that you want, whether it's building a successful business, building the body that you want, building the relationship that you want. Consistency says, I will do this no matter what consistency is. Listen, I said I was committed to working out today. I'm not going to go to bed until it's done. Not, oops, I ran out of time. Maybe tomorrow I'll get it done. No, that's not committed to something that's not being consistent. Oh, I ran out of time. Maybe tomorrow. No, it's like, I'm going to get it done. I'm going to move my schedule around to make sure that I have enough time to get it done today. If I run out of time, if it is 11 o' clock at night, I had a busy day and oh my God, I forgot to work out. Got to get it done. And we will be right back.
