[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, hey, welcome to another episode of the Eugene Hamilton podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: How you doing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hope you've been having a great week so far.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hope that you've been going, growing, and glowing as you continue to level up listen, we are already in the fourth month of the year.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were just talking to the day how time is flying.
[SPEAKER_00]: How time is this?
[SPEAKER_00]: It seemed like I don't know our side, but if we manage it properly, of course, it's on our side.
[SPEAKER_00]: So today's a very,
[SPEAKER_00]: Important topic and we're not going to be here all day long.
[SPEAKER_00]: So tune in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen very closely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Get your no pad out real quick.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll give you what your voice notes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you got to do because we're going to drive a couple nuggins that I hope will prepare you to prepare For the rest of the year as you make it the best of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's pray God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: This moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: God has lead us.
[SPEAKER_00]: We ask Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is the real key to consistency?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, this is something that I've been asking for 40 plus years, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me exaggerate a little bit, but I've been asking myself for quite some time now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, after I've gotten serious about life, serious about making some things happening in my life, I ask myself, what is the real secret, the real key to being consistent?
[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the things that's important, because to think about making consistency a habit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, some people have habits of
[SPEAKER_00]: being laid all the time, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: They've made procrastination a habit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for some of you, you think it to yourself, man, but it's not, it seemed like it's more difficult to make consistency a habit than it is to make procrastination a habit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that being laid, being lazy, procrastinating, is a default setting for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because of the fact that if you read the Bible, um, because we were born and seen and shaping any Nickely, right, as the Bible says, a default setting for us is just to be lazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not to be on time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's to move what our own pace.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's to be check this out.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's to be inconsistent.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I've been trying, I've been trying to find the key in the secret to being consistent and I want to share with you what I've discovered so far.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I wrote it down so I don't mess it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, here it is, here it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about being persistent with imperfect action.
[SPEAKER_00]: Woo-hoo!
[SPEAKER_00]: Check it out!
[SPEAKER_00]: The key to consistency, the reason why you and I don't embrace consistency like we should is because we think consistency equals perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's where you wrong and that's where I've been wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: oftentimes when we hear the word, oh, be consistent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, uh, uh, uh, make sure you make it a habit to be on time and you always show up.
[SPEAKER_00]: We think we got to show up.
[SPEAKER_00]: with make-up in the right place, with if you've got to show up with our tie already, with our clothes from the Dracula Hunter, with if you've got to show up and look perfect for everybody else.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I just told you that the definition that we've come up with today is that consistency is not about being perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about being persistent with imperfect action.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about showing up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, when I'm not ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hear me out?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about showing up when I don't feel like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about showing up when the alarm clock goes off and I want to roll over and not go to the gym.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about going to the gym, pull, check it out, even when you don't feel like it and here's the worst, even when you're still sore from yesterday.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about being persistent with your imperfections.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about making sure that, hey, I'll show up with my wrinkles, knowing that being consistent somehow will help my wrinkles fall out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Consistency has nothing to do with perfection.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say it again for the people in the nosebleed section.
[SPEAKER_00]: Consistency has, listen, divorced that idea, divorce your mind from that idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you are not perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am not perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, there was only one person that ever walked this earth that was perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not you and that's that's not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: What you've got to do, what I've got to do in order to get better in order for me to work out the wrinkles.
[SPEAKER_00]: In order for me to address the imperfections, I got to show up in perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what if for me to get the proper help, listen, I cannot listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're going through a traumatic time in life, let's say you've been going through some grief, maybe loss a loved one, let's say you've gone through a divorce, you've lost that relationship that marriage that you've been in for so many years, let's say you've lost a job, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you realize that you're going through this transition and you need therapy,
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't get yourself together before you go to therapy.
[SPEAKER_00]: You go to therapy so that they can help you get yourself together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does it make sense, y'all?
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't say, oh, let me give my life together before I go see Dr. Shouanzo.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you go to Dr. Shouanzo to help you get your jump together.
[SPEAKER_00]: The same thing happens when we try and when we approach this idea of being more consistent in our life.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't wait until we are perfectly consistent.
[SPEAKER_00]: We show up without inconsistent lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: We show up and say, hey, consistency, I'm here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jim, I'm here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Job, I'm here.
[SPEAKER_00]: School, I'm here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm imperfect, but you're going to get this consistency out of my imperfect actions.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to show up every single day, just as I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to show up every single day with my imperfect self because my job,
[SPEAKER_00]: It's to find a way to allow whatever is being given to me, whether it be a lesson at school, whatever it would ever is being, what's training at work, that word at church, whatever it is I'm sure I'm up to get.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping I'm praying, I'm believing.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're by my inconsistent, by my, by my, my commitment to showing up with my inconsistent self somehow what I'm receiving will address my challenges with being consistent.
[SPEAKER_00]: So as you think about the rest of this month, the rest of this day, the rest of this week, stop obsessing.
[SPEAKER_00]: over the fact that you are not where you want to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know you start off in January and you start off with your 10 day fast and you will, you were, man, you were ready to rock and roll, but you know, things have fallen backwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: You had the business playing laid out and you were saying this is my year.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the time that I'm going to do exactly what I need to do in order to level up and start my business or start whatever or get a promotion at my job or get that raise.
[SPEAKER_00]: I realize.
[SPEAKER_00]: You haven't reached it yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you'll do yourself a disservice.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you quit and say to yourself, you know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: I should no longer show up.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, keep showing up.
[SPEAKER_00]: You haven't reached it, but you'll never reach it if you don't show up every day.
[SPEAKER_00]: We haven't reached it, but you'll never reach it if you keep quitting and starting and quitting and start.
[SPEAKER_00]: You haven't reached it yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: You thought you'd be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: We recorded two.
[SPEAKER_00]: You thought you would reach it, but you would have reached it by now, but I get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Life happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Life be life.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the real secret.
[SPEAKER_00]: to being more consistent, the real secret to ensuring that you make consistency a habit is showing up when I absolutely have no desire to be where I'm showing up.
[SPEAKER_00]: many people who are millionaires a billionaires, if you've never met, that they only show up when they want to, no, they showed up when they didn't want to.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how they got there.
[SPEAKER_00]: They got to where they were because they showed up when they didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, they learned more thing, talk to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They learned more things when they didn't want to show up than when they showed up and they wanted to be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had to fight through the pain, they had to fight through the brain fog, had to fight through whatever it was so that they could be in prime position.
[SPEAKER_00]: to get what they needed out of that day of the situation and out of that lesson.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope that you were inspired by
[SPEAKER_00]: this brief episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you will find in you the will power, the motivation and the discipline to be more consistent even when you don't feel like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I hope you were in power today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go be great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Most importantly, don't forget to go grow and glow.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll see you next time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take care.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peace.