Keep Being Consistent!

Thanks Hormozi.

This morning I was watching videos from Alex Hormozi, and he made me realize something. At one moment, when he speaks about successful business, he shares the idea that the ones who succeeds are the ones who can do the same task, over and over again.

In other words, most people fail because they're not consistent. And, this is true in every walk of life, whether it is business or fitness, it applies to most domains of life. If you can't stay consistent despite not seeing immediate results, not only will you fail at your major life projects, but you will also live a terrible existence.

Being consistent is important. But, the problem being, how to be more consistent? And even tho it's important, does it really work like this? Do you really need consistency, or can you make a "big hit" that will change your life, such as a burst of motivation to do sports or a burst of fame from social media content that will get you millions of dollars?

Mark Cuban, Alex Hormozi, Hamza Ahmed, all of their success is a combination of many years of work. It's a consistent "going back at it" mindset that pushed them to eventually become better.

You can't just do one big hit in life and get all the money, status, fame or health you need forever. This is a fake concept that doesn't exist in real life. It might seem like you're making a once and for all big hit from the outside, but inside, you know that this result is the accumulation of thousands of different failures and wins and factors and branches that led to your current success.

And, that's pretty logical. You can't win without failing once, because if you don't fail, you don't learn, and winning instantly would assume you're one of the most intelligent beings in the world because you don't need to fail in order to win. But, in reality, most of us fail before winning.

We need to get hit in the face to understand how to dodge, we need to get fat to understand why it's so vital to be healthy, we need to give up on self-improvement to realize how crucial it is to our mental and physical health.

So, consistency is definitely important, that's a no-brainer. You've got to be consistent to achieve anything worth achieving in life. That's logical, right? Good. But, the problem now resides in the fact that consistency is hard to achieve, because most of us act on spikes of motivation, and not long-term good-will.

For example, statistics have shown that on average, most gyms lose 50% of their new members within the first six months. This is a LOT, this is half of your members going away in 6 months. And, if you look at the real challenges gym owners have to face, it's how to decrease churn (customers lost).

And why is that? Well, most people tend to quit going to the gym pretty quickly, or doing any sport whatsoever, because there's pain associated to this activity. It's like if we're walking toward a goal, in this case the goal of being healthy for example, but the pain is too hard for us to bear. And, if you actually look at a new guy in the gym, you'll see that the first day he might do quite a good work, he might be motivated, he might have the ability to go through the pain.

But the question is, how long will he be able to take this pain? And, with time, is this pain convertible in a lifestyle, so it becomes painless?

Let me make a scheme to illustrate my thoughts.

That is the basic scheme most people follow. At first, they're motivated to do sports and they over-do it in order to find the big "hit" where they'll suddenly build benefits over night.

The second step refers to the phase of demotivation, where one lose energy and is tired after working out. Seeing no benefits, he gets annoyed. Pain comes very rapidly after this step, as it comes in step 3. Pain physically from the workouts that are difficult, and pain in a more mental way from the lack of results and the burden it causes (one has to take time to workout, has to endure the pain, all of this to not see immediate results, etc).

The fourth step refers to the part where one stops going to the gym, where one signs out. This leads to step five, where one falls back into one's bad habits. Eating junk food, watching TV, not exercising. Finally, this fifth step of "going back to loser state" leads to a loss of confidence, and an overall loss of wellbeing. One becomes sad, and feels like shit, which will lead to him going back to the gym one day in order to do the "big hit", until he falls back into the same inconsistent routine which leads to him going back to his bad habits.

Now, look at this.

This is the scenario we want to go toward. The first three steps are the same. We workout, then lose motivation, become tired and are in pain because of it. But, in this second case, the person understand that progress come with time and that taking each small step is what ultimately build a dream body. A dream body doesn't happen because of big and hard workouts, once here and there. It happens because of consistent workouts. A consistent routine.

And, on the 100th day/step, on the 500thday/step, this stickman continues to work on himself despite the pain, and he sees fairly good results, until, finally, he reaches his original goal, at the 1000th day/step.

This illustrates the importance of a simple rule: if it hurts but it's good for you to do it, then do it. This is discipline. Discipline and consistency are very closely tied, discipline is doing the hard work when you don't feel like it and consistency is keep doing the hard work no matter what. As you can see here, going to the gym hurts the stickman, but he still continues, until on the 100, 500 or 1000th day/step, it only becomes an habit and there is no pain anymore, or barely any.

This is why, motivation isn't something you should count on, and you should rather count on being more consistent and disciplined. And so, the ultimate trick to becoming more consistent, is to simply force yourself and understand that the benefits come later. Give you some "immediate rewards" by being proud of yourself, feeling like a king, putting aside 1 dollar everytime you go to the gym so you can buy nice clothes with these dollars that fit your body better, etc.

Conclusion

I hope this article was of help to you. As always, keep improving.

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