Struggling to stick with your goals? Discover the secret weapon that's more critical than discipline or motivation: consistency. Join me, Sam Kaufman, on Never Stop Building as I draw from my own journey to unearth the potent impact of showing up day after day. It's not the high-octane start, but the quiet persistence through the maintenance phases of fitness, diet, or personal growth that truly tests and fortifies our resolve. This conversation promises to arm you with the practical advice and mindset shifts necessary to turn consistency into your superpower, ensuring that your achievements endure well past their inception.
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Welcome to Never Stop Building, where we discuss all things business, growth and leveling up to become the most elite version of yourself. We're here to challenge fear and shatter doubt. Let's dive in what is up everybody. Welcome back to Never Stop Building. I'm your host, sam Kaufman, as always, super grateful to be here talking with you today. Hey, I need you to be more consistent. Let's talk about consistency for a minute.
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I am convinced that consistency is the ultimate separator between those who find long-term success and those who do not. You can be ultra motivated and get a great burst of something. You can be ultra disciplined and really, really, really dial something in, but if you are not consistent over a long period of time, you won't have lasting results. You can be ultra disciplined with your diet and exercise for 90 days, see great results and screw it all up on the back end. You can be ultra disciplined with your finances for a year and then screw it all up on year two, lacking consistency. You can be ultra motivated and encouraged and excited to accomplish something and get a really, really good start, and come out on fire and have no consistency and not be able to maintain it. I see it and I've been through it with everything and I see it with everything. When you tell somebody, hey, you got to post on social media every day to grow your funnel and grow your brand awareness, grow your sales organization, post three times and stop because three times didn't do it, didn't have this grand awakening, I'm telling you from my own experience that only the things I've been consistent with over a long period of time have had legitimate foundation level results. Results where you don't have to constantly wonder if it's real or if they're going to stick around. Results where they just become habits in a part of your life. Consistency is really hard. It's legitimately difficult. It's why most people can't handle it. It's why most people don't do it. It's why people can do it in some areas but not in others. And I think one of the big game changers for maintaining consistency is unlocking your emotions from the decision to do the thing you're supposed to do. And so oftentimes people are good at doing things consistently when they have a big dopamine hit, when there's a big reward on it quickly, and so even weight loss. If you're really, really disciplined and motivated for a couple weeks, you'll see results. You'll see the scale drop, you'll feel good. That's dopamine hit, that's good. That's good. That's good.
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And one of my biggest, the hardest season for me in the health and fitness world is maintenance. That's where I'm at right now. I'm in a maintenance mode right now. We had a lot of weight loss this year, great body recomposition. We've done great work, my coach and I, and as we entered this season of my life with lots of changes going on and decisions and travel and holidays and high performance activity, we went into a maintenance mode.
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It's the worst for me because maintenance mode is the epitome of consistency. It is literally it's like so hard because there's no big dopamine hits, there's no big scale drops, there's no big like. What I'm doing is I'm maintaining a sustainable, low stress, low inflammation eating workout plan so that we're not gaining much, we're not losing much, we're maintaining. Maintaining is the ultimate consistency. See like I've had the year of a lot of weight loss before I've had, but what I've not been able to do historically was maintain. I'd always end up off the rails at some point and so, like this time, that's not going to happen. I know that for a fact because of the way that I am showing up for this, the way I showed up for it this year the way. I will continue to show up for it. So I'm not worried about backsliding or like going back to where I was putting the weight on or whatever. But that doesn't make the consistency of the boring, monotonous maintenance mode any easier in the short term. And we're so many of you were going wrong is you're so bad at the boring, tedious, monotonous maintenance stuff. And that's the stuff that really drives results. That's the stuff that really does it, believe it or not, like saving 10% of your income and investing 10% of your income and donating 10% of your income and living on 70% is a guaranteed path to financial success throughout your life. But nobody wants to do that. They want to make these big investments and they want to dump 100 grand here, 30 grand here, 10 grand. Everybody wants to get rich quick scheme. The get fit quick scheme, the get jacked quick scheme, the blow your career up quick scheme. It doesn't work. It doesn't work and I know this more now than I ever have to.
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The last five years I've been very ingrained in the mastermind communities and the personal development space and man, I was watching a video the other day of my like one of my first on camera pieces of content, for it was 2017. It was six, almost seven years ago. I started going down the making content like y'all don't see, that You've never seen those videos on my old company Facebook or the old company YouTube, like you guys don't see. But I was inconsistent in 2017. I was inconsistent in 2018. I was inconsistent in 2019. I got a little more consistent 2020. I was inconsistent 2020, 2020. My point being I've been around the space long enough now that I've seen every single get rich quick, get fit quick, get anything quit scheme fall apart on everybody, every single person. I'm telling you, bro, from 2020 to 2022, I saw more.
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This is the one. You got to invest in this. You got to do this. Real estate the house flippings the thing. This is the thing. Business acquisition is the thing. Nfts are the thing. Cryptos the thing when everybody lost their ass on everything, not because these investments don't work over time, but because get rich quick schemes are bullshit. Passive income is bullshit. Alex Formosi talks about it all the time. There's no such thing as passive income. You're working for all of your income. You're either trading your time for the exact ROI or you're trading your time to manage the people who get the R, it doesn't matter and like the obsession with trying to not have to be consistent is hindering your progress. I know, because I obsessed about it for a long time and sometimes I still. I still get the shiny object thoughts. I just don't take action on them anymore. I got people all the time oh, dude, you got to invest in this and you gotta do this, and you wanna do this and you wanna invest in this and you wanna do this and we should do this. And, dude, I'm just being patient as fuck. I'm just being patient as fuck.
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I've completely changed my strategy on how I invest my money, how I invest my time, how I invest my energy, my love. Like dude, I'm narrowed and focused because I only want things that I'm willing to be consistent with. I don't need to do anything quick anymore because what I've done is accepted, that I'm gonna be doing this shit for the rest of my life. I'm gonna be making content. For the rest of my life I'm gonna be helping people. For the rest of my life I'm going to be making a good income and increasing that income year over year. For the rest of my life I'm gonna be fit. For the rest of my life I'm gonna pour into my wife and my kids for the rest of my life. I'm gonna extra stress for the rest of my life. God willing, I'm gonna do all this shit for the rest of my life.
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And for so many years I was like there was always an exit strategy and I would quit or I would lack consistently see, because I would get to a point where I realized it wasn't happening as fast as I wanted and I was further away than I thought, and so fuck it. I refuse to live like that anymore, and what I want so badly for you, if you're listening to this, is for you to stop living like that too and commit to your life for the rest of your life. Stop committing just for 90 days or six months, or like 2024 is gonna be your year. Why? Why not make every year your year? Why not make every day your day? Why not just give every day that you're up everything that you have and just give it your all? You owe that to yourself, to your families, to your teams, to your employees, to your friends.
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Consistency changes everything, but you have to do it, and you have to do it every day over a long period of time. Consistency is a long game. Consistency is a mature man's game. Consistency is a grown-ups game. Consistency is for the emotionally matured, that people willing to really really stick around when everyone else flees and things get really really hard because they will.
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For everybody, for me, for you seasons of tough show up for everybody. What I'm gonna do in those seasons is I'm gonna lean on my consistency. I'm gonna lean on the things that worked Well. Consistency is not is it is not perfection. I'm not perfect. I'm not perfect with anything that I do. I'm not perfect in any behavior. I'm not perfect in any thinking. I'm not perfect in any action. But fuck, if I'm not consistent man, and that consistency, even if I'm riding a small rollercoaster because I'm imperfect, I will outlast all of my competition and my competition really is just me. Yesterday and tomorrow, when I get up, my competition will be the version that you're listening to right now and I will outlast that competition. I will outperform that competition and I will out consistent that competition. Consistency is the gap between the successful and the. Maybe I'll see you guys next time.