Are you waiting for motivation to strike before you take action? That’s the fastest way to fail. The secret to success isn’t motivation—it’s consistency. In this episode, I’ll break down why consistency always wins, how to build it as a habit, and how to stop letting your feelings dictate your results. If you’re tired of starting and stopping, this one’s for you. Want to learn more about Mindset Mentor+? For nearly nine years, the Mindset Mentor Podcast has guided you through life's ups and downs. Now, you can dive even deeper with Mindset Mentor Plus. Turn every podcast lesson into real-world results with detailed worksheets, journaling prompts, and a supportive community of like-minded people. Enjoy monthly live Q&A sessions with me, and all this for less than a dollar a day. If you’re committed to real, lasting change, this is for you.Join here 👉 www.mindsetmentor.com My first book that I’ve ever written is now available. It’s called LEVEL UP and It’s a step-by-step guide to go from where you are now, to where you want to be as fast as possible.📚If you want to order yours today, you can just head over to robdial.com/bookHere are some useful links for you… If you want access to a multitude of life advice, self development tips, and exclusive content daily that will help you improve your life, then you can follow me around the web at these links here:Instagram TikTokFacebookYoutube
Chapter 1: Why is consistency more important than motivation?
What's really interesting is that people always ask me how to get more motivated, but very rarely do people ask me the question of how do I just stay consistent? For some reason, everybody thinks that they want to be motivated. And I'm here to tell you, you don't want to be motivated. If you're sitting there thinking that you need to be motivated before you take any action,
you will not get what you want in this world. But you're not searching for motivation. You're searching for consistency. You're searching for how can I be the person that shows up for myself, for my business, for other people every single day. Because motivation is kind of like a sugar rush, right? It gives you a quick burst of energy and then it just fades as quick as it came in.
If you rely on motivation, you'll only take action when you quote unquote, feel like it. And if you only take action when you, if I only took action when I felt like it, I would not be anywhere where I want to be. And I don't think any person would be where they want to be if they only took action when they feel like it. That is the fastest way to fail.
Success doesn't come from waiting for the right feeling. It comes from moving forward, especially when you don't feel like it. It comes from saying, hey, I said I was going to do this. I need to get it done. I don't necessarily feel like it, but my feelings should not dictate my actions because my actions are going to dictate the life that I want. So I need to take the right actions.
So what you want is you want to be consistent. Consistency wins. When I look at someone who is extremely successful, whether it's in business, whether it's in the relationship, whether it's a professional athlete, it is the person who is the most consistent. that always wins.
I will always bet, and I'm not a betting man, but if I were a betting man, I would always bet on the consistent person over the motivated one. Motivation is fleeting. It's sometimes here, most of the time it's not. But I want to be the person who's consistent, who shows up every single day. Think of like the gym, for instance.
The person who works out three times a week for an entire year will always beat the person who works out seven days a week for a month and then quits. Motivation is the spark, consistency is the fire that just keeps burning long after the spark has gone away, long after the motivation has disappeared. So anybody can start something, and most people are really good at starting something,
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Chapter 2: How can consistency be developed as a habit?
And you can start it when you're excited, but few people can keep it going after the excitement is gone. And so consistency is a character trait that we want to build within ourselves. And just FYI, consistency doesn't mean you have to win 100% of the time. Like you have to show up every single day for the next thousand days.
That's really hard to do, but you need to be more consistent more than you're not consistent. It's kind of like James Clear. One of the quotes that I love from him is that every action that you take is a vote for the person that you wish to become. And he talks about voting and it's like a person in order to be elected doesn't have to get 100% of the votes.
They just have to get the majority of the votes. And so can you make sure that the majority of your actions are consistent of you taking the action that you need to to get what you want? So if You're trying to lose weight. I don't expect you to work out every single day for this entire year. That's hard to do. But can you make sure that you show up four days a week, five days a week?
Consistency is a character trait. Consistency is not something that you're built with and born with. It's something that you develop within yourself and it becomes part of who you are. It's not pre-wired into you. Nobody's born consistent. It's built through habits and it's built through discipline. If you don't have the life that you want, be more disciplined. Be more consistent.
Chapter 3: What role does discipline play in achieving success?
And because of the fact that it's not pre-wired, it means that you can develop it no matter who you are, no matter how great your life is, no matter how crap your life is right now. The most successful people in the world are not the ones that are the most talented or the most gifted. They're the ones that show up every single day.
And if you look at it, like the thing that I love about sports is that you can see people who are extremely talented get drafted into the NFL number one, for instance, and then they don't work and they disappear into oblivion. They have so much talent. but it doesn't last. But then you see people like Tom Brady, who is, I think, drafted like number 199, but he is the most consistent.
He retired a year and a half ago at this point, and he still works out in the mornings, puts up his videos on YouTube and on Instagram and stuff like that, doing the same workouts as if he is going to go back and play a game on this Sunday. So the people who win long term are not the ones that are most gifted. The most talented are the ones that put in the work for the longest amount of time.
And so what I would recommend is to plan your life as if most days you're not going to be motivated and most days you're not going to want to do it. You may be motivated, you may not be motivated. But when you focus on consistency, when you focus on just planning to get it done no matter what, you win. When you hope and pray that tomorrow, I hope and pray that I'm motivated to grow my business.
If you think that way, you're going to lose. If you're waiting to feel motivated, it's like waiting for the perfect weather to go on a run. If you're waiting for that, you're never going to get started. Consistency is about creating the momentum so that even on the bad days, you can still take action. All right, well, I was going to go running today. The weather looks like trash. So you know what?
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Chapter 4: How do successful people maintain consistency?
I'm just going to walk up and down my stairs for the next 30 minutes. you're still gonna get it done. It's not going, oh, it wasn't what I wanted it to be, so I guess I'm gonna skip. It's like, no, I'm still gonna do it because I said I was gonna do it. I'm gonna figure out a way. Expecting motivation every day, it's just not realistic.
Expecting yourself can be consistent is where the real power is. So if I'm on a weight loss journey, I can work out when I'm motivated, But what happens on the days that I don't feel like working out? That's where most people quit. Motivation says, oh, I'll go when I feel like it. Consistency is the feeling of I go no matter what. Think about that for a second. Motivation.
Oh, if I feel like it, I'll do it. Consistency is I go no matter what. No matter what I feel like, no matter what the weather is, no matter what the world is happening around me, I do it no matter what. That is the mindset that you have to have for whatever it is that you want. Whether it's building a successful business, building the body that you want, building the relationship that you want.
Consistency says I will do this no matter what. Consistency is... Listen, I said I was committed to working out today. I'm not gonna go to bed until it's done. Not, oops, I ran out of time. Maybe tomorrow I'll get it done. No, that's not committed to something. That's not being consistent. Oh, I ran out of time. Maybe tomorrow. No, it's like, I'm going to get it done.
I'm going to move my schedule around to make sure that I have enough time to get it done today. If I run out of time, if it is 11 o'clock at night, I had a busy day and oh my God, I forgot to work out. Got to get it done. You know, I used to run this challenge at the beginning of every single year. Originally started off as 60 days called the Iron Mind 60.
And part of it was that you had to do five different things every single day for 60 days straight. And one of them was working out. And I remember it was me and my wife. We were doing it. I was running the entire thing. I had a thousand people. They were doing it as well. I had to show up, right? I remember my wife and I were traveling and we went to Denver. Get into Denver. We get into our hotel.
I'm at the event. I go to the event. I have everything I need to do. We get done at the event. Then we have dinner. It's like 1030 at night. And I go, oh my God, Lauren, we forgot to work out today. And the requirement was you have to work out for at least 30 minutes. And she's like, well, what do we do?
I'm like, I can't tell people to work out every day for 60 days in a row and take a cold shower every single day for 60 days in a row and to not drink alcohol every day for 60 days in a row and all of these other requirements that we had. I was like, I have to get it done. We have to do it.
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Chapter 5: What practical steps can be taken to ensure consistency?
And so her and I, at like 11, 1130 at night, after all of this traveling, an entire day at an event, all of that, We ended up just taking, no joke, took all of the towels that we could find in the hotel, put them down on the ground. And then we just literally did our workout. We put on YouTube and we got our workout done and acted like the towers were our yoga mats. We built up a sweat.
Then we're like, all right, well, now we got to take a shower, go to bed. So we went to bed later than we had been planning. And maybe that turns into less sleep tonight. But at least I got it done and I can plan ahead to make sure I get it done tomorrow. And we will be right back. And now back to the show. Consistency is saying, it's not saying, oops, I ran out of time.
It's, I was committed to working out today. I will not go to bed until it's done. Because that is how you build confidence within yourself. People always say, I want to be more confident. How do I be more confident? Do what you say you're going to do. There's always one person watching you and it's you. So consistency is saying, listen, I was committed to making 100 calls today.
I will not leave the office, even if it's midnight, until I make 100 calls. Consistency says, I said I was committed to posting on my Instagram today for my business, so I'm gonna figure out what I'm gonna post and I'm gonna get it done no matter what. Consistency is, I said I was committed to shooting and editing my YouTube video today.
And even though I've got no following right now and nobody cares, I'm still gonna get it done because I said I was gonna get it done. And it matters to me to show up for myself more than anything else. Because the way you do one thing is the way you do everything. If you break small commitments to yourself You'll break big ones too.
If you're saying, oh, nobody's watching, it doesn't really matter. That's when it matters the most. Consistency is not about being perfect. It's about being disciplined enough to show up even when it's not your best day. And you have to make it a non-negotiable. Remove the mental struggle. There's no option. I got to get it done. You don't debate whether or not you should do it. You just do it.
So it's kind of like, you know, as I say, the great Marshall Mathers, you know, the philosopher, great Marshall Mathers says, success is my only motherfucking option. Failure is not. You don't even give yourself a chance to fail because you're just not going to not do it. You know, how many times have you given up? If you really want to succeed, just stop stopping. Just keep going.
Hey, I said I was going to do it. I'm going to do it no matter what. It's not when will I get it done? It's I will get it done. And when you rewire your mind to remove the option of quitting, everything changes. And this is what I think is a big thing.
And I used to be a great person of not doing what I was supposed to do and making excuses and blaming everybody else and blaming why it wasn't my fault. But when you just rewire your mind to remove the option of quitting, there is no way to quit. There is no other option. Your entire life starts to change. Most people don't fail because they're not capable.
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