August 19, 2024 • 21 mins
Can showing up every day, even when you don’t feel like it, be the true secret to success? On this episode of the Reckless CEO podcast, we uncover how the power of relentless consistency and commitment can transform your journey to achieving long-term goals. From the daily grind to the unglamorous tasks, we explore how high achievers manage to thrive in chaotic environments and build self-belief through unwavering reliability. We draw compelling parallels between dependable parents and successful individuals, emphasizing that success is not about motivational spurts but about consistent, reliable efforts that accumulate over time.
We also break down the critical importance of focus and dedication. Discover why the ability to make rapid decisions and move swiftly is often rooted in years of practice and hard work. Our discussion tackles the pitfalls of unrealistic expectations and the need for persistent effort. We further challenge you to differentiate between inherited beliefs and your true personal convictions, urging introspection to develop a genuine belief system. Tune in to learn how these foundational principles are not just abstract ideas but practical steps that can empower you and those around you to achieve lasting success.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, thanks for listening to the Reckless CEO
podcast.
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(00:22):
or check the link in the shownotes.
Here we go, right.
Check out therecklessgroupcom,or check the link in the show
notes.
Here we go, right.
You're like that buzzer ain'trang, that game ain't over with,
so keep going.
I have thrived, you know, inthat chaos.
How could this be happening?
(00:42):
Did any of you guys payattention to anything I said?
Like get arrested, guess, untilthey get the message.
Welcome back to the reckless ceopodcast, where we keep it real
raw and reckless about businessand life.
They ain't really got the sauceand I ain't got.
You know what I mean it's like.
Here is your host, the recklessCEO himself, michael McGovern.
(01:05):
So today I want to be talkingabout the secret to success,
right, the secret sauce.
I hear so many people.
They're always thinking thenext thing, the thing that's
going to make them successful isanother mentorship, it's
another community, it's anotherjob, it's the next sale, it's
the next book right, you hearthis all the time.
(01:27):
You can hear people when theyget excited about something
because they think that that'sgoing to be the thing that's
going to help create success forthem.
Right, it's like what is thatsecret sauce?
So I want to share with youtoday what I think that secret
sauce is, and what I've realizedis that there is no secret
sauce.
Right, it's a willingness thing.
It's a willingness to do theshit every day that you don't
(01:49):
want to do.
Right, because it's acompounding effect.
There is such a value incompounding, right?
We think that this hustle orthere's going to be this turn
the page and it's going tochange everything for us.
And it's really not.
It's a consistency, it's acompounding effect.
Right, it's doing the thingsthat you don't want to do when
you don't feel like it.
Right?
(02:09):
I heard that Tim Grover talksabout.
He says motivation.
So motivation is like the watercooler, right, motivation is
that place where everybody'shanging out talking about the
things that they're going to do.
You know, getting each otherexcited, getting influenced,
getting motivated.
But motivation is bullshit.
If you look at the mostsuccessful people in the world,
they don't need to listen to anInstagram reel to get them
(02:32):
motivated in the morning.
They don't need to listen to apodcast to get them motivated in
the morning.
I think that there's value in it.
I think there's value in thethings that you are consuming.
What are you taking in on adaily basis that helps to get
you to where you want to be, butif you're relying on that for
the motivation, you're in thewrong business.
My motivation is just the footin the door.
(02:54):
Right?
There is depths to this game,there is levels to this game,
and until you can understandthat, it's about consistency
over and over and over again,and not motivation, right?
So there is no secret sauce.
You already possess the secretsauce.
There's nothing that you can do.
There's nobody that you canconnect with that's going to
unlock this thing for you, right?
(03:16):
You have to unlock it foryourself and you can't be
reliant on other people to helpwith that.
Right, because you have to beconsistent, day in and day out,
and day in and day out, and dayin and day out, not doing it
when you feel like it, doing itwhen they're doing it because
you know you have to do it.
Right.
Because what starts to happen isthe more that you are
consistent, right, the moreconsistent that you are, the
(03:39):
more you start to believe inyourself.
Right?
Have you ever told yourselfthat you're going to do
something and then you did it?
How did you feel right?
Have you ever told yourselfthat you were going to do
something and you didn't do it?
How did you feel right?
Because that consistencycreates belief, it creates
(04:00):
motivation and it createscomfortability and belief in
those around you.
Right, I have learned that mosttype A driven individuals they
can thrive in chaos, right, theyseek the chaos.
Right, and that's actually nota great thing for them either,
because they start to establishthese patterns that consistently
(04:22):
create that chaos.
But what I've learned is thatmost people don't want that.
Right, the guys that create thechaos, the guys that thrive in
the chaos, are the ones thatbuild the businesses, the ones
that step out, the ones that dothe things that people said they
couldn't do.
And that isn't for everybody,and that's okay.
Right, it's understanding whatyou need and what those around
(04:43):
you need, because when you startto be consistent, when you
start to do the things in, andday in and day out, you start to
create comfortability andbelief, not only in you but for
those people around you.
If you look at a great mom or agreat dad, they're consistent.
You didn't have to know, hey,was mom going to be there when I
(05:05):
got off school or was someonegoing to be there to pick me up?
Right?
No matter if they were sick, nomatter if they were down, they
made sure that you were takencare of.
It's those small things, thethings that we don't even
realize, right?
I look at it all the time and Isay you know sometimes the
people that are the mostindependent, successful people
(05:25):
in my organization, sometimes Iforget to even recognize them,
right, because we get so focusedon the ones that are a problem,
the ones that are complaining,the ones that need things, and
all of our time and energy isgoing to these people, right.
But then there's ones that areindependent.
Sometimes they get overlooked.
Sometimes we don't even thinkabout saying something to them
(05:45):
and thanking them and beinggrateful for them, because we
know that they're going to showup and we don't have to worry
about them.
Same thing with, like I said, agreat mom or a great dad.
Think about all the things thatparents have done for you.
And maybe not every one of ushas had a perfect parent and a
perfect relationship and aperfect life.
That's unrealistic, it doesn'thappen.
(06:05):
But whether it's a parent or anindividual in your life that
has showed up consistently foryou, it has allowed you to step
into that next level.
Because you were comfortable,you were secure, you knew that
you didn't have to worry aboutthat.
Right, our business, mybusiness, has grown the more
people that I have put inside ofit that are consistent and
(06:27):
independent.
Right, they allow you to nothave to panic, not have to be in
this scarcity mindset thatwhere's it going to go, because
you know that you've got afoundation right, and a
foundation is what you build on.
When I look back at you know myhockey career.
When I was playing hockey, youknow my dad would pick me up at
two o'clock from school everyday.
(06:47):
We would drive an hour and ahalf to Pittsburgh.
We would be in the car.
We're talking about hockey,we're discussing it.
We're discussing practice.
We're talking about the thingsthat I'm gonna do today.
In practice.
That's gonna be differentconsistently every single day,
seven days a week we were doingthis, but what happened was is
(07:12):
that I was able to accelerateand get to a level of success
inside of that, inside of hockey, inside of that sport, because
I knew that I had somebody therethat was consistently going to
show up for me Right,consistently going to be there.
I didn't have to get off schooland think how am I going to get
to practice today?
No, dad was there.
Dad got me there.
And what happens is when youfind people, or you are
consistent and you create thatcomfortability and reliability
(07:36):
and relatability from otherpeople because of the way that
you're showing up, now, all of asudden, what you do is you
start to create capacity,because the biggest capacity
stealer is when you can't befocused on where you're going
because you're worried aboutwhere you are.
Right, that's the biggestcapacity stealer because you're
worried about all these things,right, fear, stress, the things
(08:01):
that you can't control, right?
And so when all your time andenergy becomes focused on the
things that you can't control,you end up controlling nothing
and you end up going nowhere,right?
If you look at the mostsuccessful people, they're
moving at a high pace, they'removing quickly, they're rolling
there.
If you spend a day with a highlevel entrepreneur, right?
(08:21):
Or a high level athlete, youknow you're going to be worn out
, probably because they'removing fast.
Right, the decisions they'remaking.
The decisions are quick.
That pace is what starts toseparate you, right?
And it's not they justcarelessly run.
No, they have done the work.
They have done these things dayin and day out, consistently.
(08:42):
So now, when the decision comes, they can make that decision
quick.
But it all starts to cometogether, right, it's that
compounding effect.
It's that compounding effectthat you start to create belief,
you start to create success,you start to create patterns.
And now, when a decision isfaced with you, you can make
that decision quickly, right?
So this idea of yourconsistency starts to create
(09:06):
pace, not only for yourself butfor everybody around you.
Right, the average person's slow.
The average person's is slow.
They don't.
There's not a lot of urgency,they don't feel like they got to
get there real fast.
It's kind of hey, you know,I'll get there when I get there.
But what I've started torealize is that they're slow
because they second guessthemselves.
Right, they're slow becausethey haven't done the work.
(09:29):
If you think about, in sports,if you're a basketball player
and you practice your cornerthree-point shot and you
practice it and you practice it.
And every day they talk aboutKobe, the amount of work that
Kobe Bryant was putting in theshots that he was taking day in
and day out.
They said he would be therebefore practice, he would be
there during practice, he wouldbe there during practice, he
(09:49):
would be there after practiceand then he'd be back in the gym
the next day, first person in,last person out.
He's doing that because thosereps create confidence.
That consistency createsconfidence.
That consistency createscomfortability and belief from
those around you.
So now, when you're in the gameand that ball comes to you in
(10:10):
the corner, it's a quick shot,you don't even think about it,
you respond and you reactbecause you have done the work
consistently to create thosedefaults, to create those things
.
That's going to make yousuccessful.
You have to be focused on thethings that it's not sexy.
Consistency isn't sexy.
Entrepreneurship nowadays is so.
(10:32):
Everybody wants to look cooland they want to have the cars
and they want to have the moneyand it's all this stuff.
But guess what?
It's not real.
It's not real without work,it's not real without a team,
it's not real withoutconsistently doing the small
shit every single day.
Most people aren't willing todo those small things because
(10:53):
they want to have an immediateROI, right?
It's like they believe that,hey, I'm entitled, that if I
work hard today, I should get aresult.
They don't realize that it'snot an instant thing.
You can't, you know.
You see somebody that wants tostart working out, right.
They say that.
You know they want to get inshape and they've never really
(11:16):
worked out before.
Maybe they've done it once ortwice.
They've, you know, they've gotinto it, they've fallen off.
They got into it, they'vefallen off.
And so what happens is is thatthey, you know, in this moment
they get motivated, right,they're ready to take on new
levels.
So now they're going to makethis game plan.
You know, I'm going to go fromnever working out to working out
(11:38):
seven days a week because I'mmotivated, I'm inspired.
Now I had a conversation withsomebody that was in shape.
I saw what they were doing.
I saw the life that theycreated.
I said I want that life, butguess what?
You needed to be motivated toget it.
And so you told yourself I gotthe next seven days, I'm going
to the gym every day, right?
And then you set yourself upfor failure Because you're
(11:59):
looking at the end result.
You're looking at thisunrealistic thing that's never
going to happen, because youcan't get there overnight.
That person, that entrepreneur,that person that you see right
now.
They say that overnight successtakes 10 years.
It takes 10 years to have anovernight success.
(12:21):
Everybody sees it pop up and go, but what's the things that you
were doing for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,12 years, sometimes, before you
ever became successful.
See, that's the problem.
I don't think that it's a visionthing for most people.
I think that vision is one ofthe most powerful things that we
can have, because in order toget somewhere, we have to know
(12:44):
where we're going, and so youhave to have this vision.
But I think that every singleone of us has a vision, right?
If I told you and said whatkind of life do you want?
He said I want a better life.
Okay, what's that life looklike?
Oh, this life looks like this,and it's cars and it's money and
it's opportunities.
That's awesome.
You got a vision, sweet.
What do you do with that vision?
(13:04):
Right?
If I said would you rather beable to travel and build
relationships, or would yourather go to work every single
day and do something that you'remiserable doing, what would you
say?
You'd rather do the thing thatyou love, you'd rather have the
vision.
So it's not a vision problemthat you have, right, it's a
belief problem that you have.
It's a depth perception problemthat you have, because the
(13:25):
reason, the reason that you'renot going and chasing these
things and consistentlyfollowing up with these things,
because you think it's going totake a long time right, you
think that you know, if I, if Ido this today, I mean I don't
know if I can get there.
Right, I don't know if I canget there fast enough.
And so you give up.
Right, you give up on thesedreams because you think these
(13:50):
dreams are so far away.
Right, you see what someone'sdoing and you step into that and
you try to do it for a coupledays and it wears you out and
you quit because it's going totake a long time.
And I don't know if I have thatcommitment.
One of the greatest, I'll sayone of the greatest things that
had happened to me is that afterI played hockey, you know, I've
(14:10):
been able to commit to thingsmy entire life.
Right, when I wanted to be agreat athlete.
I committed everything I hadtowards it.
Right.
When I actually got into thecoal mines or got into the gas
plants, right, I didn't havethis idea of an entrepreneurship
right For me in that moment.
I had nowhere to go.
There was no, there was novision, right, I had an idea of
(14:33):
what I wanted it to look like,but it was in my belief.
I was like there's no resourcesfor me to get there.
So guess what I committed?
I committed to working at a gasplant for 40 years.
I told myself I'm gonna be heretill I'm 65.
And I committed to that.
And so every day I just showedup, didn't bitch, didn't
complain and I stuck to mycommitment.
I wasn't happy, I didn't wantthat, but I learned how to
(14:56):
commit to things.
I learned that, hey, man, youhave to stick to it.
You got to do the things day inand day out.
Guess what, if I'm 65 by thetime, I get to enjoy my life?
I guess that's what it is.
I wasn't happy with that, Iwasn't settling for that.
I wasn't content with that, butbeing able to commit to
becoming a great athlete, beingable to commit to becoming a
(15:17):
great bodybuilder, being able tocommit to a 40-year vision of a
dream that I didn't even want.
I was willing to do it.
So when I transitioned into anentrepreneurship, shit, that was
easy.
That was easy because I knewthat I was already willing to do
(15:37):
something I hated for 40 years.
So all I had to do was findsomething I enjoyed, find
something that was gonna fulfillme a little bit.
And that was an easy commitmentBecause, no matter what, where
I was at, even in my worst days,it was better than there.
There was a time in my life Iwas building steel sets in a
coal mine, hundreds of feetunderground, for $12 an hour,
(16:04):
working 16 hours a day, five toseven days a week.
Miserable, hated it.
Hatediserable, hated it, hatedmy life, hated everything.
But guess what?
I showed up.
I was at work every day becauseI made a commitment.
See, most of you aren't willingto make a commitment.
You're not willing to commit tosomething because is it going
to take too long?
(16:24):
What's it going to require ofyou?
Who do you have to become alongthe way?
Right, and it's all of thesethings we're so worried about,
the how we're going to do it,versus just saying I'm going to
fucking do it, I'm going tocommit to this and I'm going to
do everything that I can until Iget there.
And I'm not going to let thepeople around me I'm not going
to let my parents or my friendsor family or whoever it is.
I'm not going to let themremove my commitment.
(16:48):
I'm not going to let them shakeme.
I'm not going to let themchange.
I'm not going to let themchange my direction or control
my direction, because that's upto me.
They don't understand it.
You have to pay attention towho you're taking who you're
taking knowledge from.
Pay attention to who you'retaking advice from.
I see a lot of people out therethat give a lot of advice on
(17:10):
things that they've never donebefore.
They're going to tell you hey,make sure your bills are paid,
because this is going to happento this and you can't go doing
these things.
You're not good enough to dothat thing, you don't have the
ability to do that thing, you'renot capable of that thing.
And then I see people quitbecause of somebody that they
love tells them that they can'tdo something, quit because of
(17:31):
somebody that they love tellsthem that they can't do
something.
And I believe that it's notever really about that person
telling you that you can't dosomething because they don't
believe that you can do it.
They don't believe that theycan do it.
So their filter, their love foryou, the lens that they're
looking through is their ownlens.
It's their own experiences.
They tell you can't dosomething because they know that
(17:56):
they couldn't do it and theyhad no clue how that you could
ever do it.
You weren't as good as them,you were under them, you weren't
as athletic as them.
They didn't make it.
So how can you?
Most people talk down on yourdreams because they've given up
on theirs, which brings me to mylast point today your belief
(18:20):
system.
The belief system is a funnything.
I've actually had conversationsaround this and I've said you
know, I think it's more of ataught system, because most of
us don't actually think forourselves, most of us just our
belief system is really theplaybook or the handbook that we
(18:43):
were given, from those aroundus, from our family members,
from friends.
Right, your belief system isthis thing that's been created
over centuries of traumas fromyour ancestors that came here to
then this person and this, andso, over time, this belief
system just gets developed fromall these things and experiences
(19:05):
that everybody else hasexperienced, not what we have
experienced.
I like to call it a taughtsystem.
That's what I think it is.
They should call it a taughtsystem because that's all it is.
It's just where our beliefsystem becomes the collective of
all the things that everybodybefore us has experienced.
That's not a belief system.
That's your taught system.
That's something that you'vejust been ingrained to believe.
(19:29):
A belief system is what youbelieve, but you have to take
the time You've got to reflect.
You've got to have a vision,you've got to have a commitment.
It's the things that youbelieve in, not anybody else,
right?
Do you believe that you havethe ability to be successful?
(19:49):
Do you believe that you havethe ability to do the same thing
day in and day out and beconsistent?
Do you believe that those smalldaily habits will compound over
time and separate you by 15,20%, 30%?
Next thing, you know you're 50%ahead of all these people
around you.
Do you believe that you can dothat?
(20:09):
Do you believe that yourconsistency will empower people
around you?
Do you believe that you can dothat?
Do you believe that yourconsistency will empower those
around you?
That's your belief system?
Right?
If your belief system is it'snot for me, it's hard, it's
gonna take too long.
Then be honest with yourself.
Is that what you believe, or isthat what the people around you
(20:29):
believe, or those that havetaught you to believe that?
So lock in on your beliefsystem and understand that there
ain't no secret sauce to thisgame.
It's very simple Do the shitthat others won't do,
consistently, day in and day out, and believe that you are
(20:52):
capable.
You can become the thing thatyou want, even when nobody sees
it.
You have to believe it.
Reckless CEO out.
Hey, thanks for listening to the Reckless CEO
podcast.
This is just a quick reminder.
In case you'd rather watch thefull episode, you can find it at
youtubecom.
Slash the reckless CEO.
Well, if you'd like to listen,you're in the right place.
If you find value in thiscontent, please like and
subscribe.
If you are a home service CEO,ready to scale your business and
join an incredible community,check out the reckless groupcom
(00:22):
or check the link in the shownotes.
Here we go, right.
Check out therecklessgroupcom,or check the link in the show
notes.
Here we go, right.
You're like that buzzer ain'trang, that game ain't over with,
so keep going.
I have thrived, you know, inthat chaos.
How could this be happening?
(00:42):
Did any of you guys payattention to anything I said?
Like get arrested, guess, untilthey get the message.
Welcome back to the reckless ceopodcast, where we keep it real
raw and reckless about businessand life.
They ain't really got the sauceand I ain't got.
You know what I mean it's like.
Here is your host, the recklessCEO himself, michael McGovern.
(01:05):
So today I want to be talkingabout the secret to success,
right, the secret sauce.
I hear so many people.
They're always thinking thenext thing, the thing that's
going to make them successful isanother mentorship, it's
another community, it's anotherjob, it's the next sale, it's
the next book right, you hearthis all the time.
(01:27):
You can hear people when theyget excited about something
because they think that that'sgoing to be the thing that's
going to help create success forthem.
Right, it's like what is thatsecret sauce?
So I want to share with youtoday what I think that secret
sauce is, and what I've realizedis that there is no secret
sauce.
Right, it's a willingness thing.
It's a willingness to do theshit every day that you don't
(01:49):
want to do.
Right, because it's acompounding effect.
There is such a value incompounding, right?
We think that this hustle orthere's going to be this turn
the page and it's going tochange everything for us.
And it's really not.
It's a consistency, it's acompounding effect.
Right, it's doing the thingsthat you don't want to do when
you don't feel like it.
Right?
(02:09):
I heard that Tim Grover talksabout.
He says motivation.
So motivation is like the watercooler, right, motivation is
that place where everybody'shanging out talking about the
things that they're going to do.
You know, getting each otherexcited, getting influenced,
getting motivated.
But motivation is bullshit.
If you look at the mostsuccessful people in the world,
they don't need to listen to anInstagram reel to get them
(02:32):
motivated in the morning.
They don't need to listen to apodcast to get them motivated in
the morning.
I think that there's value in it.
I think there's value in thethings that you are consuming.
What are you taking in on adaily basis that helps to get
you to where you want to be, butif you're relying on that for
the motivation, you're in thewrong business.
My motivation is just the footin the door.
(02:54):
Right?
There is depths to this game,there is levels to this game,
and until you can understandthat, it's about consistency
over and over and over again,and not motivation, right?
So there is no secret sauce.
You already possess the secretsauce.
There's nothing that you can do.
There's nobody that you canconnect with that's going to
unlock this thing for you, right?
(03:16):
You have to unlock it foryourself and you can't be
reliant on other people to helpwith that.
Right, because you have to beconsistent, day in and day out,
and day in and day out, and dayin and day out, not doing it
when you feel like it, doing itwhen they're doing it because
you know you have to do it.
Right.
Because what starts to happen isthe more that you are
consistent, right, the moreconsistent that you are, the
(03:39):
more you start to believe inyourself.
Right?
Have you ever told yourselfthat you're going to do
something and then you did it?
How did you feel right?
Have you ever told yourselfthat you were going to do
something and you didn't do it?
How did you feel right?
Because that consistencycreates belief, it creates
(04:00):
motivation and it createscomfortability and belief in
those around you.
Right, I have learned that mosttype A driven individuals they
can thrive in chaos, right, theyseek the chaos.
Right, and that's actually nota great thing for them either,
because they start to establishthese patterns that consistently
(04:22):
create that chaos.
But what I've learned is thatmost people don't want that.
Right, the guys that create thechaos, the guys that thrive in
the chaos, are the ones thatbuild the businesses, the ones
that step out, the ones that dothe things that people said they
couldn't do.
And that isn't for everybody,and that's okay.
Right, it's understanding whatyou need and what those around
(04:43):
you need, because when you startto be consistent, when you
start to do the things in, andday in and day out, you start to
create comfortability andbelief, not only in you but for
those people around you.
If you look at a great mom or agreat dad, they're consistent.
You didn't have to know, hey,was mom going to be there when I
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got off school or was someonegoing to be there to pick me up?
Right?
No matter if they were sick, nomatter if they were down, they
made sure that you were takencare of.
It's those small things, thethings that we don't even
realize, right?
I look at it all the time and Isay you know sometimes the
people that are the mostindependent, successful people
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in my organization, sometimes Iforget to even recognize them,
right, because we get so focusedon the ones that are a problem,
the ones that are complaining,the ones that need things, and
all of our time and energy isgoing to these people, right.
But then there's ones that areindependent.
Sometimes they get overlooked.
Sometimes we don't even thinkabout saying something to them
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and thanking them and beinggrateful for them, because we
know that they're going to showup and we don't have to worry
about them.
Same thing with, like I said, agreat mom or a great dad.
Think about all the things thatparents have done for you.
And maybe not every one of ushas had a perfect parent and a
perfect relationship and aperfect life.
That's unrealistic, it doesn'thappen.
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But whether it's a parent or anindividual in your life that
has showed up consistently foryou, it has allowed you to step
into that next level.
Because you were comfortable,you were secure, you knew that
you didn't have to worry aboutthat.
Right, our business, mybusiness, has grown the more
people that I have put inside ofit that are consistent and
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independent.
Right, they allow you to nothave to panic, not have to be in
this scarcity mindset thatwhere's it going to go, because
you know that you've got afoundation right, and a
foundation is what you build on.
When I look back at you know myhockey career.
When I was playing hockey, youknow my dad would pick me up at
two o'clock from school everyday.
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We would drive an hour and ahalf to Pittsburgh.
We would be in the car.
We're talking about hockey,we're discussing it.
We're discussing practice.
We're talking about the thingsthat I'm gonna do today.
In practice.
That's gonna be differentconsistently every single day,
seven days a week we were doingthis, but what happened was is
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that I was able to accelerateand get to a level of success
inside of that, inside of hockey, inside of that sport, because
I knew that I had somebody therethat was consistently going to
show up for me Right,consistently going to be there.
I didn't have to get off schooland think how am I going to get
to practice today?
No, dad was there.
Dad got me there.
And what happens is when youfind people, or you are
consistent and you create thatcomfortability and reliability
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and relatability from otherpeople because of the way that
you're showing up, now, all of asudden, what you do is you
start to create capacity,because the biggest capacity
stealer is when you can't befocused on where you're going
because you're worried aboutwhere you are.
Right, that's the biggestcapacity stealer because you're
worried about all these things,right, fear, stress, the things
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that you can't control, right?
And so when all your time andenergy becomes focused on the
things that you can't control,you end up controlling nothing
and you end up going nowhere,right?
If you look at the mostsuccessful people, they're
moving at a high pace, they'removing quickly, they're rolling
there.
If you spend a day with a highlevel entrepreneur, right?
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Or a high level athlete, youknow you're going to be worn out
, probably because they'removing fast.
Right, the decisions they'remaking.
The decisions are quick.
That pace is what starts toseparate you, right?
And it's not they justcarelessly run.
No, they have done the work.
They have done these things dayin and day out, consistently.
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So now, when the decision comes, they can make that decision
quick.
But it all starts to cometogether, right, it's that
compounding effect.
It's that compounding effectthat you start to create belief,
you start to create success,you start to create patterns.
And now, when a decision isfaced with you, you can make
that decision quickly, right?
So this idea of yourconsistency starts to create
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pace, not only for yourself butfor everybody around you.
Right, the average person's slow.
The average person's is slow.
They don't.
There's not a lot of urgency,they don't feel like they got to
get there real fast.
It's kind of hey, you know,I'll get there when I get there.
But what I've started torealize is that they're slow
because they second guessthemselves.
Right, they're slow becausethey haven't done the work.
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If you think about, in sports,if you're a basketball player
and you practice your cornerthree-point shot and you
practice it and you practice it.
And every day they talk aboutKobe, the amount of work that
Kobe Bryant was putting in theshots that he was taking day in
and day out.
They said he would be therebefore practice, he would be
there during practice, he wouldbe there during practice, he
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would be there after practiceand then he'd be back in the gym
the next day, first person in,last person out.
He's doing that because thosereps create confidence.
That consistency createsconfidence.
That consistency createscomfortability and belief from
those around you.
So now, when you're in the gameand that ball comes to you in
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the corner, it's a quick shot,you don't even think about it,
you respond and you reactbecause you have done the work
consistently to create thosedefaults, to create those things
.
That's going to make yousuccessful.
You have to be focused on thethings that it's not sexy.
Consistency isn't sexy.
Entrepreneurship nowadays is so.
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Everybody wants to look cooland they want to have the cars
and they want to have the moneyand it's all this stuff.
But guess what?
It's not real.
It's not real without work,it's not real without a team,
it's not real withoutconsistently doing the small
shit every single day.
Most people aren't willing todo those small things because
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they want to have an immediateROI, right?
It's like they believe that,hey, I'm entitled, that if I
work hard today, I should get aresult.
They don't realize that it'snot an instant thing.
You can't, you know.
You see somebody that wants tostart working out, right.
They say that.
You know they want to get inshape and they've never really
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worked out before.
Maybe they've done it once ortwice.
They've, you know, they've gotinto it, they've fallen off.
They got into it, they'vefallen off.
And so what happens is is thatthey, you know, in this moment
they get motivated, right,they're ready to take on new
levels.
So now they're going to makethis game plan.
You know, I'm going to go fromnever working out to working out
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seven days a week because I'mmotivated, I'm inspired.
Now I had a conversation withsomebody that was in shape.
I saw what they were doing.
I saw the life that theycreated.
I said I want that life, butguess what?
You needed to be motivated toget it.
And so you told yourself I gotthe next seven days, I'm going
to the gym every day, right?
And then you set yourself upfor failure Because you're
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looking at the end result.
You're looking at thisunrealistic thing that's never
going to happen, because youcan't get there overnight.
That person, that entrepreneur,that person that you see right
now.
They say that overnight successtakes 10 years.
It takes 10 years to have anovernight success.
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Everybody sees it pop up and go, but what's the things that you
were doing for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,12 years, sometimes, before you
ever became successful.
See, that's the problem.
I don't think that it's a visionthing for most people.
I think that vision is one ofthe most powerful things that we
can have, because in order toget somewhere, we have to know
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where we're going, and so youhave to have this vision.
But I think that every singleone of us has a vision, right?
If I told you and said whatkind of life do you want?
He said I want a better life.
Okay, what's that life looklike?
Oh, this life looks like this,and it's cars and it's money and
it's opportunities.
That's awesome.
You got a vision, sweet.
What do you do with that vision?
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Right?
If I said would you rather beable to travel and build
relationships, or would yourather go to work every single
day and do something that you'remiserable doing, what would you
say?
You'd rather do the thing thatyou love, you'd rather have the
vision.
So it's not a vision problemthat you have, right, it's a
belief problem that you have.
It's a depth perception problemthat you have, because the
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reason, the reason that you'renot going and chasing these
things and consistentlyfollowing up with these things,
because you think it's going totake a long time right, you
think that you know, if I, if Ido this today, I mean I don't
know if I can get there.
Right, I don't know if I canget there fast enough.
And so you give up.
Right, you give up on thesedreams because you think these
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dreams are so far away.
Right, you see what someone'sdoing and you step into that and
you try to do it for a coupledays and it wears you out and
you quit because it's going totake a long time.
And I don't know if I have thatcommitment.
One of the greatest, I'll sayone of the greatest things that
had happened to me is that afterI played hockey, you know, I've
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been able to commit to thingsmy entire life.
Right, when I wanted to be agreat athlete.
I committed everything I hadtowards it.
Right.
When I actually got into thecoal mines or got into the gas
plants, right, I didn't havethis idea of an entrepreneurship
right For me in that moment.
I had nowhere to go.
There was no, there was novision, right, I had an idea of
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what I wanted it to look like,but it was in my belief.
I was like there's no resourcesfor me to get there.
So guess what I committed?
I committed to working at a gasplant for 40 years.
I told myself I'm gonna be heretill I'm 65.
And I committed to that.
And so every day I just showedup, didn't bitch, didn't
complain and I stuck to mycommitment.
I wasn't happy, I didn't wantthat, but I learned how to
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commit to things.
I learned that, hey, man, youhave to stick to it.
You got to do the things day inand day out.
Guess what, if I'm 65 by thetime, I get to enjoy my life?
I guess that's what it is.
I wasn't happy with that, Iwasn't settling for that.
I wasn't content with that, butbeing able to commit to
becoming a great athlete, beingable to commit to becoming a
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great bodybuilder, being able tocommit to a 40-year vision of a
dream that I didn't even want.
I was willing to do it.
So when I transitioned into anentrepreneurship, shit, that was
easy.
That was easy because I knewthat I was already willing to do
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something I hated for 40 years.
So all I had to do was findsomething I enjoyed, find
something that was gonna fulfillme a little bit.
And that was an easy commitmentBecause, no matter what, where
I was at, even in my worst days,it was better than there.
There was a time in my life Iwas building steel sets in a
coal mine, hundreds of feetunderground, for $12 an hour,
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working 16 hours a day, five toseven days a week.
Miserable, hated it.
Hatediserable, hated it, hatedmy life, hated everything.
But guess what?
I showed up.
I was at work every day becauseI made a commitment.
See, most of you aren't willingto make a commitment.
You're not willing to commit tosomething because is it going
to take too long?
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What's it going to require ofyou?
Who do you have to become alongthe way?
Right, and it's all of thesethings we're so worried about,
the how we're going to do it,versus just saying I'm going to
fucking do it, I'm going tocommit to this and I'm going to
do everything that I can until Iget there.
And I'm not going to let thepeople around me I'm not going
to let my parents or my friendsor family or whoever it is.
I'm not going to let themremove my commitment.
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I'm not going to let them shakeme.
I'm not going to let themchange.
I'm not going to let themchange my direction or control
my direction, because that's upto me.
They don't understand it.
You have to pay attention towho you're taking who you're
taking knowledge from.
Pay attention to who you'retaking advice from.
I see a lot of people out therethat give a lot of advice on
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things that they've never donebefore.
They're going to tell you hey,make sure your bills are paid,
because this is going to happento this and you can't go doing
these things.
You're not good enough to dothat thing, you don't have the
ability to do that thing, you'renot capable of that thing.
And then I see people quitbecause of somebody that they
love tells them that they can'tdo something, quit because of
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somebody that they love tellsthem that they can't do
something.
And I believe that it's notever really about that person
telling you that you can't dosomething because they don't
believe that you can do it.
They don't believe that theycan do it.
So their filter, their love foryou, the lens that they're
looking through is their ownlens.
It's their own experiences.
They tell you can't dosomething because they know that
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they couldn't do it and theyhad no clue how that you could
ever do it.
You weren't as good as them,you were under them, you weren't
as athletic as them.
They didn't make it.
So how can you?
Most people talk down on yourdreams because they've given up
on theirs, which brings me to mylast point today your belief
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system.
The belief system is a funnything.
I've actually had conversationsaround this and I've said you
know, I think it's more of ataught system, because most of
us don't actually think forourselves, most of us just our
belief system is really theplaybook or the handbook that we
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were given, from those aroundus, from our family members,
from friends.
Right, your belief system isthis thing that's been created
over centuries of traumas fromyour ancestors that came here to
then this person and this, andso, over time, this belief
system just gets developed fromall these things and experiences
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that everybody else hasexperienced, not what we have
experienced.
I like to call it a taughtsystem.
That's what I think it is.
They should call it a taughtsystem because that's all it is.
It's just where our beliefsystem becomes the collective of
all the things that everybodybefore us has experienced.
That's not a belief system.
That's your taught system.
That's something that you'vejust been ingrained to believe.
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A belief system is what youbelieve, but you have to take
the time You've got to reflect.
You've got to have a vision,you've got to have a commitment.
It's the things that youbelieve in, not anybody else,
right?
Do you believe that you havethe ability to be successful?
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Do you believe that you havethe ability to do the same thing
day in and day out and beconsistent?
Do you believe that those smalldaily habits will compound over
time and separate you by 15,20%, 30%?
Next thing, you know you're 50%ahead of all these people
around you.
Do you believe that you can dothat?
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Do you believe that yourconsistency will empower people
around you?
Do you believe that you can dothat?
Do you believe that yourconsistency will empower those
around you?
That's your belief system?
Right?
If your belief system is it'snot for me, it's hard, it's
gonna take too long.
Then be honest with yourself.
Is that what you believe, or isthat what the people around you
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believe, or those that havetaught you to believe that?
So lock in on your beliefsystem and understand that there
ain't no secret sauce to thisgame.
It's very simple Do the shitthat others won't do,
consistently, day in and day out, and believe that you are
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capable.
You can become the thing thatyou want, even when nobody sees
it.
You have to believe it.
Reckless CEO out.
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