How do you create consistency in your life?
Showing up, fully engaged is a big part of work. Being a machine, like Seth Godin, like NameTag Scott is the way to have wild success, wild wealth, and more of what you want. The quality of your ideas is less important–by far–and less novel–by far than the execution.
Ideas are everywhere. Execution is 90% of it or more. “Idea guys” are worthless. Utterly entitled useless pieces of crap. The idea isn’t the novel thing, and the older and presumably wiser I get the more I know it. It’s easy to have a dazzling idea, a new and novel thing that you could make some day.
It’s hard to get up every day, look people in the eye and serve them with all of your heart, mind, mind, soul & strength. It’s hard to show the patience and confidence you need. It’s easy to be the smart kid, it’s easy to be the one with the answers. It’s hard, really hard, to show up every day and have the enduring faith that it takes to work towards your goal, especially when instant results are out the window.
How many exciting, great ideas have you had that would be AWESOME if they were put into practice?
How many NBA players had roughly the same physical gifts as Michael Jordan (Dominique Wilkins, Charles Barkley, Anfernee Hardaway) but didn’t hit the same heights? MJ’s mental gifts were far more novel than his physical gifts.
Right now, I’m trying to learn to develop the consistency needed to get past the ‘next level’ and go to the one beyond that. It’s not about intellect, acumen or acuity, it’s about just blocking out distractions and doing it. It’s about getting up and rolling. Not getting-ready-to-roll. Preparation has its place, but only in moderation.
Lots of little things help. Keeping a list helps. Clearing a schedule helps. Paying a little bet on a debt every day helps. Morning pages helps. I’ve come farther along than I thought possible. But I need to be hitting it hard.
How do you create consistency? Are you really doing it? Are you being honest with yourself?
Ideas are everywhere, and without execution totally worthless. A mediocre idea executed with passion and fervor will beat the hell out of genius ideas that sit in drawers.
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Lots of potentially great REALTORS have left the biz because they could not put their plan into action. Good post. Thanks.