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What's going on, my friends, welcome back to the Ryan League Podcast, where we love to keep things short and sweet for you each and every week, every single episode. We're always thinking of ways that we can add value to your life. Your leadership, your relationships, and ultimately, the way that you show up in the world every single day. Today's episode is covering a topic that I believe gives you a competitive advantage in life. You cannot get a degree in today's subject. Today's subject is also not a skill that you can just acquire, but it is a trait that I believe each and every one of us has the opportunity to choose every single day. And when we choose this trait, I believe that we wake up 10 years from now incredibly proud of the person we've become today. I want to talk to you about consistency. Yeah, I want to talk to you about being consistent. Doing the same thing over and over and over again. We gotta be honest. I mean, I'm sure you got some good friends in your life, or at least I hope you would. How many of them are consistent? I'm sure you work with some incredible individuals. How many of them are consistent? How many of them can you count on that you know what you're going to get? When they walk in the room, you might be thinking, well, they consistently have a bad attitude. And I can count on it. That's a whole. I actually wrote a book about that. It's called how to Work with Complicated People. Shameless plug. But, yeah, I think. I think there's something powerful about us being consistent that helps us be who we want to be for the long haul. The problem with consistency is consistency. Well, it's boring. Yeah, it's boring. Let me tell you what's not boring. Going viral, winning a championship, launching a bestseller, closing a huge deal, getting a standing ovation. That stuff is fun. But you want to know what's boring? Doing the same thing tomorrow that you did today. Yeah, doing the same thing tomorrow that you did today. I've actually decided most people don't really know this, so I guess this is a psa, right? Public service announcement. I basically decided that I am going to write a book a year for the rest of my life. Yeah, I'm gonna write a book a year for the rest of my life. Ryan, what are you doing in your life? I'm writing books and talking about it for the rest of my life, which might sound cool until you actually realize what that means. It means that I've basically signed up to go to college for the rest of my Life. There's always homework, there's always reading, there's always researching, there's always refining sentences, there's always cutting chapters and rewriting. What I thought was brilliant last week and this week, it's like, don't ever say that out loud to human beings. It's like if I asked a room full of people, how many of you would like to be a best selling author? You know, people that have that desire, you know, their hands would shoot up. But if I asked the question, how many of you would like to enroll in college for the rest of your life? And oh, by the way, you're never going to graduate, nobody's raising their hand. Why? Because that sounds boring. But the outcome and the process are married. You don't get one without the other. I've got some, some friends that play professional sports and you know, they've got the coolest job in the world. I mean, they get paid a lot of money to play a game, right? But most of their life, behind the scenes, it's boring. Two to three workouts a day, sometimes two to three hour workouts, two to three times a day, same drills, same lifts, same shots from the same spots. Film sessions, recovery sessions, and then some more drills. Sometimes they, they'll walk into like a little room, a VIP room that the team set up for them and it's nothing in there but stacks of jerseys and gear to sign. And they'll sit there for two hours just signing their name. Have you ever done that before? Ever? Just signed your name for two hours? Let me tell you what it is, okay? And you guessed it, boring. But that boring consistency is what allows them to be who they are. When the lights come on, nobody sees the repetition. They only see the result. When you think about business and the companies that dominate their industries, they're usually not the flashiest companies in the world. They're just incredibly disciplined. You think about restaurant chains that can deliver the same experience in every city. You think about the brands that answer customer service emails within 24 hours every single time. You think about all of these companies that in your mind you think, man, they've created consistency everywhere. And they're not always the sexy companies, they're just consistent. Think about the person in your life who's in the best shape of their life. Like, if you look behind the scenes of their life, it's like, well, they got consistent in an area of their life that most people are up and down in. We all wish that we could just wake up shredded because we had one amazing workout. We Went to one hot yoga class and all of a sudden it's like, oh, I'm here. It's like, no. It's a lot of boring workouts. It's a lot of repeated meals. It's saying no to dessert again and again and again. When you think about your relationships and the people who matter the most to you, and you think about your kids, if you got some, and you think about parenting, you think about, like, how you're making an impact in a child's life. Like it's, it's consistency. Like no parent ever woke up and said, I had one amazing conversation with my kid and now we're just close forever. Absolutely not. No. It's a lot of bedtime routines. It's a lot of carpool talks. It's a lot of showing up to practice again and again and again. You think about leadership. Like, you're not one meeting away from being an amazing leader. You're a lot of meetings away from being an amazing leader. You don't become an amazing leader in one speech. No, you build up leadership by creating stability over and over and over again. You think about influencers who are on social media and trying to create this brand. It's like for some people, it's like, we gotta go viral. It's like, I mean, going viral is fun, but you wanna know what actually builds a platform? Consistency. Posting when no one is clapping. Creating when the engagement is low. Publishing when you don't feel like it. Like when you hit that publish button, when you hit that post button, it's like, it's not always going to be fun. And I would argue consistency is better than viral. I do a pre event call with every client I speak for and I always ask the question, like, how'd you hear about me? And more and more lately, I keep hearing from clients, they say, we've been watching you for a few years on social media. Like, we, we've been, we've been following you and we've been, you've been on our short list of people that we would consider for our event. And I just think, man, if I hadn't been consistent, if my team had not been consistent, we wouldn't have the opportunities that we have today. And so. Well, man, if you're in the social space, I hope you go viral. But at the same time, I hope you stay consistent. I hope you're still posting two and three years from now. My friends, what I want you to understand from today's episode is that sometimes the best way to win the race is to simply keep going because most people just don't have long haul in them. They start strong, they're good at sprinting, but they don't, they don't stay. They're not good at staying in the game for the long haul. And I think over time, staying becomes your competitive advantage. And the good news about this is you don't have to be the most talented. You don't have to be the flashiest, you don't have to be the loudest, you don't have to be the most networked. You just have to be the most consistent. And what that requires is something that most people secretly avoid. Boring. Repetition. Routines, disciplines, habits. My friend, you've heard me say it before. I'm going to encourage you with it again today. Fall in love with boring because boring compounds. And when boring compounds long enough, it becomes exceptional. The shot that used to be difficult becomes automatic. The writing that used to take hours becomes sharper. The marriage that felt fragile becomes resilient. The leadership that at one point you were shaky with it. Now it's become steady because he became consistent. Consistency is boring, but it is impossible to compete with. So one final question that I'll leave you with. Is there any area of your life where you are chasing a high? Is there any area of your life where you are chasing some sort of spike? Where you actually should be looking for a system? Where you actually should be looking for some form of consistency, something that you can do every day that can help you become the person you want to be 10 years from now? Pick the boring thing. The thing that everyone else is going to shy away from because it's boring? Yeah, pick the boring thing and do it tomorrow and then do it again the next day and then get your butt out of bed and do it again the day after that. My friends, thanks for listening to the Ryan Link podcast and if today's episode inspired you, I would ask that you don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend. And hey, it would mean the world to me if you would take a moment to rate, review and subscribe. Your support helps us reach even more people with these short and sweet nuggets of inspiration. And thanks for being a part of the journey and we will talk to you next time.