Hey everyone, and welcome to episode 41 of the Pathfinder Blades and Business Surviving the Wild podcast. I'm your host, Riley Alexander, and today I wanted to talk about an entrepreneurial skill that you can develop on your own that can generate really great results for you, and that is consistency. Consistency wins even over mass outputtings of energy in a short amount of time. Consistency always wins. It's your secret ingredient as an entrepreneur. The guy who is consistently putting in two or three hours a day of focused, on-point, dedicated work is going to be farther ahead than the person who has all the time in the world and is not being consistent or effective with that time. It always brings me back to the story of the tortoise and the hare, right? The hare was faster. The hare was so fast. He could run really, really fast and he should have been able to win any single race. But the turtle was consistent. He was steady. He was stable. He was very, very consistent. And he just kept moving where the turtle or where the hare would put out these massive amounts of energy and then he'd get tired and he'd lay down, or he'd rest, or he'd goof around, and he would end up losing. You know, that's the fable, right? That's the story to teach the difference between consistency and speed. Now, there is something to be said for speed. Moving with speed is really incredible and can create big things and make big things happen really, really fast. But to get to that point where you can move with speed and with consistency is really important. And to do that, you need to develop the habit of being consistent in all you do. The other day, I was listening to a video on YouTube, and the guy doing the video, it's a motivational channel, and I forget the guy's name, Ernie something. He talks about professional basketball players and how if one of them was to, who I think it was Colby, who got up two hours earlier than anybody else in the league and was working out an extra two hours every single day. And he made the point, he goes, after a day of doing that, there wasn't really a big difference. Even after a week, there wasn't a real noticeable difference. Three months down the road, there still isn't a hugely noticeable difference. He goes, but after about a year, six months to a year, he goes, you start seeing him start to stand out a lot more. And then in five years, he's way ahead of everybody else. And after 10 years of that consistent behavior of showing up every day, two hours before anyone else, in 10 years, he's completely untouchable. Now, as an entrepreneur, what would your life look like if you were putting in two hours a day? Ultra-focused, consistent work. And I know for some of you, you're out there, you're building your business, you're doing it full-time, and that's not realistic to only work two hours a day. But what if you took and said, two hours, for these two hours, I work very consistently, uninterrupted. This is my time. You know, what if you focused on two or three hours or four hours where you have this window of working consistently with no interruptions, what could you accomplish for your business? What could you do for yourself? And it goes for anybody, even if you're trying to start your own business, you know, what, what would your, your side business look like if you got up every morning, two hours before you had to go to work and you invested that into your business, or if maybe your goal is a health goal and you, you put two hours into your body every single day working on either prepping foods or working out or whatever it might be. Where would your what would your life look like a year down the road? What would your life look like two years down the road, five years down the road, 10 years down the road? Where would you be? How would you be set up? You know, that that's the key with all of this is the consistent behaviors, behaviors, the consistent habits, and showing up every day over a long period of time create results. When we do it over a short period of time, I think that's why people get so frustrated and New Year's resolutions are kind of a joke is because people, they make these resolutions and they show up for a few weeks, but then they quit. You know, it's not convenient anymore. Somebody needs help or, oh, I had this job commitment or, oh, there was this family obligation. So I'm not going to do it today. So I'll just do it tomorrow. And then tomorrow becomes tomorrow and tomorrow becomes tomorrow never comes. Right. And I think that's a lot of the reason why people fail with their desires. People fail with their dreams is because they don't set up and they don't create a consistently workable plan where they can be consistent every day. And then they don't make the commitment to that consistency for a long enough period of time. You know, let's take the gym, for example. If you want to drop 10, 15 pounds, and if you only go sporadically for two or three weeks to the ...
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