Your Motivation Is Worthless If It Can't Survive Wednesday Morning
We've all had that moment when something hits us so powerfully that we promise ourselves everything is about to change. We leave the conference inspired, the workshop energized, or the experience convinced that this time will be different.
Then Wednesday morning arrives. The bills are waiting, life gets messy, the bad news comes, and nobody is applauding. What happens to your commitment then?
In this episode, Kellan Fluckiger challenges you to stop measuring your transformation by how inspired you feel and start measuring it by what you actually do when life gets difficult. Because consistency is your identity made visible.
Key Takeaways:
- Why motivation and inspiration often disappear when ordinary life resumes.
- The F.U.C.K. framework: Fierce, Unapologetic, Consistent, and Kind.
- Why Wednesday morning is the real test of your commitments.
- Consistency as the visible expression of your identity.
- The difference between consistency and rigidly repeating the same routine.
- Kellan's Daily Creation Process and the SPEM framework: Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, and Mental.
- Why methods, schedules, and tactics can change while your principles remain consistent.
- How to adapt your commitments when circumstances, health, or fatigue interfere.
- The difference between honoring a principle and becoming enslaved to a ritual.
- Why habits make great servants but horrifying masters.
- Consistency of spirit across work, home, relationships, and difficult circumstances.
- How repeated acts of honesty, forgiveness, love, and commitment compound over time.
- Why keeping your word to yourself is essential to building self-trust.
- The power of shrinking promises until you can reliably keep them.
- How ordinary, repeated actions accumulate into extraordinary results.
- Why kindness must accompany discipline.
- How shame and self-attack turn a missed commitment into abandonment.
- Kellan's practice of getting up, fessing up, cleaning it up, and recommitting after failure.
- How to identify one important commitment and make it real on an ordinary Wednesday morning.
- Connecting consistency with purpose, prosperity, joy, and personal sovereignty.
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We've all been there.
Speaker ASome meeting, conference, church experience, I don't care.
Speaker AAyahuasca retreat.
Speaker AWe get an insight, we make a promise and then Wednesday morning at 9:30, the bills, stuff happens.
Speaker ADo they survive your commitments?
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Speaker AI like people that are committed to serving others.
Speaker AI like people who are trying to get a message into the world.
Speaker AI like people who are living the ultimate life purpose, prosperity and joy and doing it in a way that is service based, you know, conscious business we call that, I love that service oriented business.
Speaker AThat's what I'm all about.
Speaker AAnd if you're that, I want to have you as a guest.
Speaker AWhy?
Speaker ABecause I love hearing your stories.
Speaker ANumber one two, I want to expand your reach.
Speaker AI want to broadcast from my platform.
Speaker AAnd you know, we're not the number one podcast in the world, but we are in the top 3%, which means we have thousands, tens of thousands of regular listeners.
Speaker AAnd I want to give them the opportunity to see your face and hear your voice in another way, like a new way.
Speaker AI know you're already doing that if you're living that kind of life.
Speaker ASo I invite you to come be on the show.
Speaker AThe second thing I want to talk about today is the acronym, the scary one.
Speaker AF U C K. Yes, I know what that spells.
Speaker AAnd I don't cuss in real life.
Speaker AI'm not a person that runs around and, you know, fills life with profanity and so forth.
Speaker AI used to be.
Speaker AThere was a time in my life when I thought that meant something or proved something.
Speaker AAnd so I would run around and say all kinds of profane things, including the F bomb.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker AOh, yeah, I did that a lot.
Speaker AAnd I don't anymore.
Speaker AI don't talk like that.
Speaker ABut I'm using that acronym.
Speaker AYes, because it gets attention.
Speaker AYes, because, ooh, a little shock.
Speaker AShock value.
Speaker ABut the reason is because it stands for four things that I think capture something important.
Speaker AThe world today, if you haven't noticed, I'm sure you have, is full of, like, noise.
Speaker ANoise beyond noise.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker AUnless you're watching the.
Speaker AIt's so much fun.
Speaker AOkay, we have two channels.
Speaker AWe watch three, actually.
Speaker AOne set of channels is the cooking channels and real estate rehab channels.
Speaker AYou know, the fixer upper.
Speaker AThings like that kind of thing.
Speaker AWe watch a lot of those.
Speaker ASo cooking channels Joy loves and, you know, beat Bobby Flay and Alex versus America and the Master Chef with different people and Hell's Kitchen and all that stuff.
Speaker AJoy loves those.
Speaker ASo those are on in the background often.
Speaker ALike, a lot of the hours of the day.
Speaker AAnd I'm downstairs in the basement where I have three studios.
Speaker ABut every time I go up to say hi to my angel, my angel who walks on water, or to get lunch or to do anything, you know, they're playing usually, not always.
Speaker AThe other channel that we watch is.
Speaker AI don't say watch that's on.
Speaker AIs the one that Veronica watches, and she's our Ukrainian granddaughter, and she watches a lot of nature channels.
Speaker ALike, I've learned more about the 72 most dangerous animals and things in Antarctica and Africa.
Speaker AAnd, like, she watches those sometimes for hours, and she absorbs a lot of it.
Speaker AAnd so that's on a lot.
Speaker AThe third one is occasionally we have the news on one or another news channel for a little bit, and it doesn't.
Speaker AIt's so stark.
Speaker AThe difference between one set of channels, you know, National Geographic or, you know, cooking or whatever, it's one sort of whole temperament.
Speaker AAnd then as soon as you turn the news on, it's strident, it's noisy, it's alarmist, it's negative.
Speaker AIt doesn't matter what channel, Right?
Speaker AAnd we live in that world where it's noisy, alarmist, negative.
Speaker AThat is hard on the soul.
Speaker ASo it makes us numb.
Speaker AIt numbs us.
Speaker AWe don't hear anything.
Speaker AAnd so the F bomb is now part of the regular dialogue of society.
Speaker AEverybody's telling everybody, f this and F that.
Speaker AThat's sad.
Speaker ANevertheless, I'm using that acronym to illustrate a point you have a message, I want to hear it.
Speaker AMaybe you have a book, I want to read it.
Speaker AYou have.
Speaker AIf you don't have a book, I'd like to help you write one if that's of interest to you.
Speaker AThen go to dreambuildriteit.com because I can help you get it written, published, and on a track to make 100k from your first book.
Speaker AI know how to do that and I show lots of people in my seminars.
Speaker ABut anyway, so my point is this.
Speaker AF U C K in this context stands for fierce, unapologetic, consistent and kind.
Speaker AWe did the fierce one a couple episodes ago.
Speaker AWe did unapologetic last time and today is consistent.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AIt is easy to go somewhere, like I said earlier, to, you know, conference or church or rally or a workshop or a concert or a political march or a motivational event.
Speaker AYou know, in the church that I go to, there's a conference being held this coming weekend, general conference, and it's held in Salt Lake and broadcast all over the world.
Speaker AAnd it's four two hour sessions and I watch a lot of them.
Speaker AI really enjoy it because why?
Speaker ABecause it gets me fired up and recommitted and loving and, you know, in.
Speaker AIn love with my Savior and you and everybody.
Speaker AIt does all that.
Speaker AAnd I know you go places like that too.
Speaker AMaybe it's not religious and maybe it is.
Speaker AMaybe it's a rally, maybe it's politics.
Speaker AMaybe it's a workshop.
Speaker AMaybe it's a business seminar where you go and you go, whoa, what ideas.
Speaker AI can do this, you know, I can make my gazillions or get out of debt or pay my taxes or whatever.
Speaker AAnd that's good.
Speaker AThe motivational events of all kinds are good.
Speaker AMaybe you cry, maybe not.
Speaker AMaybe that's like, yeah, I don't do that.
Speaker AAll right, maybe you declare.
Speaker AMaybe you buy the shirt.
Speaker AMaybe you fill pages with notes and quotes.
Speaker AMaybe you post one or two or three pictures on Social and then Monday afternoon happens and you've got laundry and Wednesday morning a T mail and bills and a crappy, you know, a crappy piece of news.
Speaker AMaybe you have bad sleep.
Speaker ANobody applauds.
Speaker ASo the question isn't who you are at the march or the rally, at the event.
Speaker AThe question is, how about Wednesday morning at 9:06?
Speaker AHow about that?
Speaker AOkay?
Speaker ABecause that's where the rubber meets the road.
Speaker AAnd one of the things I say is a phrase you've heard a million times.
Speaker ABut I live in the world of rubber meets the road.
Speaker AEverything I do is grounded in reality.
Speaker ALike, what do you do with this?
Speaker ABecause it's easy to philosophize at this level and talk about what could be, should be.
Speaker AAnd here are the secret Wingilis to access the metaphysics of manifestation and Yo Mama production.
Speaker ANo, the question has got to be grounded.
Speaker AIt's got to be grounded in what do I do today?
Speaker AHow do I get actually out of my own way?
Speaker AHow do I get in gear, on the court, in the game on a consistent basis?
Speaker ABecause we all know what it's like to get punched in the face.
Speaker AI think it was Mike Tyson that said, you know, everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face.
Speaker AAnd that's an easy phrase to say.
Speaker ABut I want to ask you for a minute.
Speaker AWhen was the last time you got punched in the face?
Speaker ALike, that's hard, it's immediate, it demands your attention.
Speaker AI use that because I used to do a lot of martial arts, including sparring and competitive martial arts.
Speaker AAnd I remember sparring against a person who was a couple degrees black belt more than me and younger and faster, and a spinning back kick landed on my jaw and broke a tooth.
Speaker AAnd the thing about everybody's got a plan until you get punched in the face was like front and center.
Speaker AAnd so, you know, Mike had to have a plan right then because it wasn't over.
Speaker AThat was just what happened right then.
Speaker AAnd you don't say, okay, I quit.
Speaker AYou can, but that isn't what you do.
Speaker ASo the idea of everybody's got a plan till you get punched in the face has real weight for me.
Speaker ABut anyway, it all happens.
Speaker ALife intervenes and smashes us around.
Speaker AAnd so here's the thing I want you to remember.
Speaker AConsistency is your identity made visible or mine.
Speaker ASo think about that.
Speaker AConsistency is how we make who we say we are visible.
Speaker AThat doesn't mean doing the same action forever.
Speaker AThat's rigidity.
Speaker AAnd it gets boring and stupid really fast.
Speaker ABut let me give you an example.
Speaker AWhen I teach people about how to create yourself, people think of, okay, yeah, morning routine.
Speaker AYeah, I know, I know.
Speaker AI'll get up and stand on the corner on your head for five minutes and meditate and then read a thing and do a thing and then, you know, okay, I know.
Speaker AWhen I teach the thing, I change the name and I do it on purpose.
Speaker AAnd I'll tell you why.
Speaker AI call it the Daily Creation Process.
Speaker AAnd it isn't the same thing.
Speaker AI use the same acronym.
Speaker ASpem.
Speaker ASpiritual, Physical, Emotional, Mental, S P, E M. The reason that I Do is I have arbitrarily divided life into those areas.
Speaker ASpiritual, physical, emotional, mental.
Speaker ABut what I do in each of those areas changes every single day.
Speaker AI have 20 things that might be this one of, or two or three that I use in the spiritual area, in the physical and the emotional mental.
Speaker ASo I have a whole menu of things and I just be inspired about which one works.
Speaker ABecause the intent daily creation process is to have a good loaf of bread.
Speaker AThe intent is to be fully created, powerful, in love with you, with myself, excited about the day, no matter what it is today.
Speaker AI gotta go right after this and get needles and they hurt like heck.
Speaker ANeedles.
Speaker AI'm getting a radio frequency ablation.
Speaker ALook that up.
Speaker ARadio frequency ablation in the right side between discs or Spinal Vertebrae L5 and S1.
Speaker ABecause the disc is gone and it's hurting like heck.
Speaker AAnd I'm scheduled for surgery in a few months, two or three months.
Speaker ABut in the meantime, it hurts.
Speaker ASo what they do is they kill the nerve, Nerves grow back.
Speaker AI didn't know that.
Speaker ABut anyway, so I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker AI already had one on the left side last week and, oh, man, does that hurt.
Speaker AThey stick needles in.
Speaker AYeah, they numb it, but it hurts because one of the needle sticks goes right in the nerve.
Speaker AWhen that happened on the left side, I just about went through the ceiling anyway, so I'm looking forward to that right now, as soon as I get done.
Speaker ABut anyway, consistency means continuity.
Speaker AIt's how we show who we are in real life.
Speaker AIt means doing the same, following the same principles, getting to the same place of being, love, forgiveness, whatever, it is the same place of commitment, the same place of direction.
Speaker AYour method can and will change.
Speaker AYour schedule can and will change.
Speaker AYour tactics can and will change.
Speaker ABut they, you know, they.
Speaker AThey will do that and they have to still produce the same outcome.
Speaker ABecause integrity doesn't.
Speaker ATake Thursday off.
Speaker ALove isn't a weekend's hobby.
Speaker AFierce ownership is not only for good days.
Speaker AService isn't.
Speaker AWhen somebody notices, it's always spiritual connection.
Speaker AThat's not just during some kind of crisis.
Speaker AAnd I say this, and I know that you know it in your heart, but I.
Speaker ABut I'm asking you, is your consistency where you want it?
Speaker ADoes your consistency need a consistency tune up?
Speaker AThat's funny.
Speaker AConsistency is what turns whatever conviction you have into your character.
Speaker AIf I have to think about it before I do it, it isn't ingrained yet.
Speaker ANow, if you watch, I don't know why, maybe because I click on them.
Speaker ABut in Facebook, when I'm scrolling for a minute about in stories.
Speaker AI think it's stories.
Speaker ANot sure of the name.
Speaker AI see a lot of Seth or Steph, sorry, Steph Curry, the basketball player.
Speaker AAnd I don't know, but I'm going, you know, I look at a few of those and I don't spend long time doing it, maybe five minutes.
Speaker AI like volleyball and I like the ones from Steph Curry.
Speaker AI'm not a basketball fanatic and I played it only casually and I wasn't particularly good.
Speaker ABut it continues to amaze me.
Speaker AThe kind of just lights out, close your eyes.
Speaker AThings that shots that he makes, I've never seen.
Speaker AI guess the world has never seen a shooter like Steph Curry.
Speaker AAnd if you're a basketball freak and you think I'm crazy cool.
Speaker ABut anyway, I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker ASo that comes up a lot.
Speaker AAnd he doesn't do a ritual to prepare for each shot.
Speaker AHis absolute bulletproof consistency in practice and practice and practice from any and everywhere on the court is what does what you see.
Speaker AAnd that's true with a person that plays the piano.
Speaker AI saw another thing that comes up a lot is piano.
Speaker AI love jazz piano, so I click on those and I watch, you know, and I'm a pianist and I play really well.
Speaker ABut you know, when they show me some of these Chick Corea licks that are blistering fast, oh, I just drool with envy.
Speaker AAnd I haven't put in time that he had to do that.
Speaker AAnd so it still drools even though I can do 2/3 of it.
Speaker ACan't do the real deal, right, because of consistency that he did and I didn't have it, so.
Speaker ABut I had enough, right?
Speaker AAnd so I love it, love watching it, etc.
Speaker AEtc.
Speaker AConsistency is what turns your story into cash.
Speaker AConsistency is what turns your desired state into real life.
Speaker ASo why it's part of this acronym.
Speaker AYou know that my message.
Speaker AI have a message for 300 million people.
Speaker AIt's about WIPOs.
Speaker AYour worth, identity, possibility, ownership, sovereignty.
Speaker AAnd we've done episodes about all those.
Speaker AAnd the method that I use or the manner, the presentation is where this F U C K comes from.
Speaker AMy message is fierce.
Speaker ANot screaming, not loud, but it is fierce.
Speaker AIt is unapologetic.
Speaker AI know who you are.
Speaker AI know who I am.
Speaker AWe're divine beings and we're capable of so much more than the fanatic and crazy news presents of us.
Speaker AAnd when I go visit the US we live in Canada.
Speaker AIt's not like it shows on the news doesn't feel like that, but it sure created like that for us on news channels, isn't it?
Speaker AWhat a sad thing.
Speaker AThe third one is consistent.
Speaker AAnd here's the reason.
Speaker AIf I'm not consistent, my piano skills don't go.
Speaker AIf I'm not consistent, my character isn't created.
Speaker AIf I'm not consistent, my visibility on social media doesn't go up.
Speaker AIf I'm not consistent, my relationship doesn't grow.
Speaker AIf I'm not consistent in my daily creation, not exactly doing the same thing at all, but the outcome, then my connection to power gets, you know, goes away.
Speaker ABecause consistency is what turns your conviction and belief into your character or who you are.
Speaker ASo let's move on to the next piece because remember, it's fierce, unapologetic, consistent and kind.
Speaker AAnd this goes to exactly what I was saying about the morning ritual.
Speaker AAnd I don't call it that because that's so cliche.
Speaker AThe dcp.
Speaker AWrite that on your forehead.
Speaker ADaily creation process.
Speaker AAnd if you don't have one and you just jump up and cruise into the day, phone in hand, coffee in the other.
Speaker AYeah, what is it?
Speaker AI promise you're missing out on millions of people you could reach and millions of dollars.
Speaker ANow if you don't care about that and you don't care about the impact, the millions you're leaving on the table.
Speaker APeople and dollars live long and prosper.
Speaker ABut if you do, consistency in your messaging and your creation will pay exponential dividends.
Speaker AOkay, so the fourth letter of course is K. And consistency without kindness becomes rigidity.
Speaker AAnd we all know rigid things break.
Speaker AThey're either bullies or they break under pressure.
Speaker AOkay, here's the thing.
Speaker AIf somebody says I never miss, then they're sick and drag themselves through something foolish.
Speaker AOr they ignore their needs of their child or punish their body or refuse to adapt because of discipline.
Speaker AThat's not mastery, that's stupidity.
Speaker AI'll give you an example.
Speaker AI say I never skip my morning creation and I never do.
Speaker ABut I absolutely adapt it to what's going on.
Speaker ASo for example, Friday at 8:00 p. M. I went last Friday to the ER because of trouble with my leg, my left leg.
Speaker AI tore some muscles in the glute and it was bleeding and so it swelled up.
Speaker AAnd you know what happens when you have muscle bleeds and it hurt like I couldn't walk on it at all.
Speaker AAnd it was.
Speaker AI was in a lot of pain.
Speaker ASo I went to the ER to see how bad the bleed was.
Speaker ABecause I am on Blood thinners.
Speaker AAnd I was a little worried about internal bleeding.
Speaker ASo they gave me some pain and took some, you know, did some stuff to see.
Speaker ASo I was there from 8pm Friday night to about noon, 1 o' clock on Saturday.
Speaker ASo about 16, 17 hours.
Speaker ANow what do you think I need to do when I go home?
Speaker ABecause I was awake that whole time.
Speaker AI tried to labs alone a lot because of ERs like that.
Speaker AYou know, they come and do something and then they go away for three hours.
Speaker AThey come and poke you with an IV and take some blood, blah blah, blah, and they go away.
Speaker ASo, you know, I was laying my head down on the, on the stretcher that was next to me.
Speaker AI was sitting in a chair because trying to lay down was way too painful for my leg.
Speaker ASo I didn't get up and do my morning routine the way I normally do.
Speaker AWhen I got home at 1 in the afternoon, I slept.
Speaker AAnd then I adapted it.
Speaker ABut what I also did is during those hours I was sitting alone in the hospital, I spoke my ptac, which is nine pages long and 3,000 words.
Speaker AAnd yeah, I might be weird because they have it memorized, but I did it differently.
Speaker AI did it slowly and carefully, chewing the words.
Speaker AWhy?
Speaker APartly to pass the time, partly to distract myself, but also mostly to live into the truth of adaptation and of asking the question, I'm here with hurt and pain and damage and injury.
Speaker AWhat is the gift here?
Speaker ASo the consistency allowed me to do that and to get real value out of being in the ER and in pain.
Speaker ACrazy, huh?
Speaker AThat is a way to adapt it.
Speaker ANow, if you ignore something you shouldn't, or like stay in a building when it's burning, that's silly.
Speaker AThat's not mastery, that's enslavement to a ritual.
Speaker AAnd that's the opposite kind.
Speaker AConsistency asks this question, what's the principle of underneath the practice?
Speaker AWhich is what I ask and what I honored.
Speaker AIf my two hour practice became impossible as it did because I couldn't do any extra, I can do an honest adapted version.
Speaker ANow I'm using this morning creation as an example, but it applies to everything.
Speaker AI used to destroy myself not with exercise, but I had a story.
Speaker AAnd the story was if I don't get up exactly at 5 o' clock and do this, this, this, this, get all this done and cram this in.
Speaker AAnd then I, I suck.
Speaker AI failed.
Speaker AAnd inevitably, you know how it is when you're that rigid stuff get takes longer than you think.
Speaker AYou get tired for a minute, you get distracted for 10 or 15 minutes, and then you're behind.
Speaker AAnd when I did that, I had what I called the eight ball feeling.
Speaker AI'm always behind.
Speaker AI'll never have you ever had that.
Speaker AOh, man.
Speaker ASo it's the principle.
Speaker ADid you honor the principle?
Speaker ANot go to zero.
Speaker AThat's like people who are on a diet, right?
Speaker AOkay, I ate a donut.
Speaker AOkay?
Speaker AI might as well have 25 donuts.
Speaker AThat's not helpful.
Speaker AMaybe you spend less time.
Speaker AMaybe you adapt it.
Speaker AMaybe you do it different.
Speaker AMaybe full rest is the discipline choice.
Speaker AWhen I went to bed Saturday night, I slept.
Speaker AI was in bed for 11 hours, partly to heal, partly to sleep.
Speaker AConsistency means.
Speaker AAnd listen, I love this phrase.
Speaker AConsistency means complete fidelity to the covenant and not worship of the choreography.
Speaker AI love that phrase.
Speaker AThat's a keeper, right?
Speaker AI want you to write that down.
Speaker AConsistency means fidelity to the covenant and not worship of the choreography.
Speaker AAll right, so now let's talk about cadence.
Speaker AI'd like to move deeper now than habit.
Speaker AHis habit is something we use to serve us.
Speaker AHabit.
Speaker AHabits make great servants, and they make horrifying masters.
Speaker AAsk anyone who's struggled with any kind of a compulsion or addiction.
Speaker AThey make horrible masters.
Speaker AAll right, so here's what we need to talk about.
Speaker AConsistency isn't primarily the gym attendance streak, or even though that's fun, or if you use, you know, you're doing one of those duolingo apps or Spanish apps or French or whatever.
Speaker AHow many days.
Speaker AThat isn't the primary goal, or the journaling streak, or the podcast upload streak, or the daily live streak, or the task list.
Speaker AOkay, Consistency is.
Speaker AWhat is it that needs to be done right now that is perfectly in line with who I am.
Speaker AThat's like when I get up to speak, and I do that a lot at events, I speak a lot.
Speaker AI always have something prepared that I'm going to do.
Speaker AAnd then I look at the audience I have been watching and seeing and feeling, and I make things sometimes different, sometimes a little and sometimes completely different based on who's there and what they need.
Speaker ASometimes fatigue changes things.
Speaker ASometimes opportunity changes things.
Speaker ABut I can tell you one thing.
Speaker AWhen I get up and do that, I just did that at the conference I spoke at a few weeks ago, the ians International association for Near Death Studies.
Speaker AI had a outline of a talk prepared, and I looked at the audience and I talked to many of them over the two days.
Speaker AI was on Sunday, and it was a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, it was Sunday morning, and I had talked to many, and so things changed.
Speaker ABecause of what the audience was and what I'd learned.
Speaker AAnd it was still consistent, completely consistent with the love, the message, what I knew had learned about dying and coming back, the things that they had come for.
Speaker ABut the presentation, the choreography was completely different.
Speaker AI was completely in tune with and lined up with the principle and adjusted the choreography to make it work.
Speaker AConsistency of spirit means the same essential me.
Speaker AAnd I'm inviting you the same essence walks into the boardroom or the bedroom or the studio or the hospital or the airport or church or in conflict, in harmony, in good times and bad, I'm the same person, and everybody knows who knows me, knows who to expect.
Speaker AThat's consistency.
Speaker AOne little aspect of it is messaging.
Speaker ASo when I meet people first online, and lots of people I meet online, and I'm never going to meet in person, or at least I don't see that.
Speaker AAnd sometimes I meet people online that I'm going to meet.
Speaker AI know in a day, a week, a month, sometime in the future, I'm going to be at an event, and they are, too.
Speaker ABut one of the things I say is, you know, same dude every single day.
Speaker AYou see me or hear me or in person, and I invite you to think about that.
Speaker ABecause I used to think at work I was one way and at home I was another way.
Speaker AAnd I used to think that was perfectly expected and normal.
Speaker AAnd it's not.
Speaker AThe way we do one thing is the way we do everything.
Speaker AIf at work I'm professional and understanding and focused and clear, and I come home and I'm impatient or lazy or some other thing, one of them or both is fake.
Speaker AAnd fakeness carries poison.
Speaker AEverybody knows when we're being fake, right?
Speaker AYour BS meter, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, goes off.
Speaker AAnd then anything that person says or does is like, yeah, whatever.
Speaker AThat doesn't mean the behavior is identical.
Speaker ABut if you walk into a boardroom or a bedroom or a studio or the hospital or airport or church or a conference or a conversation with an employee or your partner, whether it's a hard combo or an easy one, whether it's after success or failure, is it the same coherent being with the same values, the same commitments?
Speaker AThat's consistency.
Speaker ANow, I want to talk about something that is the eighth wonder of the world.
Speaker AEinstein, I think, is the one credited with saying compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.
Speaker ANow, if you've ever talked to a financial advisor or someone that talks about infinite banking, where you be your own bank or any of those kinds of things, investments, and so Forth they all talk about compound interest and they talk about, you know, compounded daily and all that sort of thing.
Speaker AAnd that sort of stuff's really important, the compounding interval and everything that's important and powerful and it adds up quickly.
Speaker AWhat you find in compound interest is that the money you put away grows way faster than you think because you get interest on the interest and it keeps compounding.
Speaker AAnd that's what compound interest is.
Speaker AAnd I know, you know, that I want to talk about a different kind of compound interest.
Speaker AAnd that's the compound interest of being.
Speaker AWhat I notice in myself when I live this way and in others is that when we have jackets that we put on, okay, I'm this way at work and I put on a different jacket at home and I put on a different jacket when I go out with friends or, you know, if we be somebody that we somehow think is appropriate to the situation, you don't know who the hell you actually are.
Speaker AWe're fake in all those situations and we're behaving according to somebody else's expectation and that's exhausting.
Speaker AIt's not necessary and you're worn out.
Speaker AOn the other hand, when you know and you've declared who you are, then you have a compounding effect.
Speaker AThat doesn't happen when you don't, when you have these different jackets.
Speaker AOne act rarely changes a life.
Speaker AIt happens occasionally, but rarely.
Speaker ARepeated acts do and they compound.
Speaker AAnd I'm talking a little bit abstractly, but let me give you an example.
Speaker AIf I choose to tell the truth and I use this example because I used to lie all the time.
Speaker AI was a pathological liar.
Speaker AI lied to everybody all the time to manage the frame and get the outcome I thought I wanted.
Speaker AAnd I got really good at it.
Speaker AAnd it's embarrassing to admit, but it's true.
Speaker AAnd that was many, many years ago, but it was real the first time.
Speaker AYou tell the truth in a difficult situation and it's difficult and it's scary and you do that isn't going to change things forever, but it makes the next one slightly easier and, and the next one slightly easier.
Speaker AAnd what happens then is the effect compounds.
Speaker AIn other words, it becomes easier faster than you think and pretty soon it becomes your character.
Speaker AMine is that an eye, personal witness to that about the truth telling piece and other things.
Speaker AAnother thing that that can apply to that I know is forgiveness.
Speaker AI used to tie forgiveness to apologies and I wasn't forgiven unless somebody said I was or I couldn't forgive somebody unless they apologized and had all these rules.
Speaker AThen I learned that forgiveness is something I do, Period.
Speaker AI can grant it, just like a presidential pardon.
Speaker AI can choose to no longer let acts or events in the past have power in the present.
Speaker AThe first time I did that, or chose to do it, it was hard.
Speaker AIt was a struggle.
Speaker AQuestions of worthiness and who deserved what, and somebody deserved to pay.
Speaker AAnd all that sort of dialogue went on in my mind as I repeatedly practiced it.
Speaker AIt became easier and easier.
Speaker AAnd the compounding means it gets easier really fast.
Speaker AAnd it's fun because now, today, as I live, I live with nothing.
Speaker AI hold nothing against anyone for any reason.
Speaker AI have nothing to carry.
Speaker AAnd I forgive everything that happens immediately.
Speaker AEverybody, everything, all the time.
Speaker AAnd it's just light and easy.
Speaker AAnd I'm not pretending to be perfect by any stretch.
Speaker ABut that's the place of consistency.
Speaker AIf you practice anything.
Speaker AI'm thinking of piano.
Speaker ANow back to my jazz example.
Speaker AThe more you practice, the more you get good at it.
Speaker AAnd the improvement compounds, gets exponential.
Speaker AIf you tell the truth repeatedly.
Speaker AIf you practice love, if you practice keeping promises.
Speaker AI want to talk about that one for a minute.
Speaker AI have a little phrase in some of my talks I call a billion dollar phrase, a billion dollar secret.
Speaker AAnd I'm going to give it to you right now.
Speaker AIt's called I said it, I did it, I said it, I did it.
Speaker AAnd what that means is whatever it is that comes out of your mouth, whether you say it to yourself in your head or to someone else, you do it.
Speaker AAnd that sounds simple enough and obvious.
Speaker AI keep my word.
Speaker AOf course I do.
Speaker ANo, you don't.
Speaker AYou lie to yourself all the time.
Speaker AYou promise yourself you're going to do stuff, then you don't.
Speaker AWell, I keep my word to other people.
Speaker AI don't care.
Speaker AKeeping your word to yourself is the most important thing, period.
Speaker ANo exceptions, no excuses.
Speaker AYou can argue with me all you want, but anyway, here's.
Speaker AI said it, I did it.
Speaker AWhen people say, well, I'm trying really hard, we're going about it wrong.
Speaker AI'm going to give you the.
Speaker AThe secret to master this.
Speaker AShrink the promises.
Speaker AShrink the promises.
Speaker AWhen you're learning to do this shrink, shrink them and shrink them so small that it becomes easy.
Speaker AThe promises you make, whether they're especially to yourself or to others, tiny enough that you absolutely do them.
Speaker ASo that I said it, I did it, becomes the cadence and truth of your life because it's really easy to grow the promises.
Speaker AAnd when I said it, I did it.
Speaker AStarting with the Tiniest of promises, especially to yourself, you keep them.
Speaker AYou can have anything you want.
Speaker AAnd I'm looking you right in the eyes and saying that you can.
Speaker AYou can have whatever you want.
Speaker APurpose, prosperity and joy.
Speaker AWhen I said it, I did it is the truth of your life.
Speaker AYou can have whatever you want.
Speaker AAll the money, all the influence, all the power.
Speaker AAnd I'm a witness to that because of.
Speaker AI practice it.
Speaker AI said it, I did it.
Speaker ASo that happens with exercise.
Speaker AIt happens with prayer.
Speaker AIt happens with hearing or feeling, inspiration or intuition.
Speaker AIt happens with loving people.
Speaker AIt happens with creation.
Speaker AIt happens with sales to grow your cash, sales, conversations.
Speaker AIt happens if you're writing, you know, I love writing.
Speaker AWritten a bunch of books, 20 something.
Speaker AIt happens with service.
Speaker AIt becomes the architecture of your being.
Speaker AYou don't have to think about it anymore.
Speaker AAnd nobody sees it.
Speaker AAnd that doesn't matter.
Speaker AYou're not.
Speaker AWe're not doing this to impress anybody.
Speaker AWe're doing it out of a conscious choice of who we are.
Speaker AThat's why worth, identity, possibility, ownership, sovereignty is so near and dear to my heart.
Speaker AI've chosen and I've experienced the joy that comes from that.
Speaker AI want to share it with you.
Speaker AAnd that's the point.
Speaker APeople don't need to see it.
Speaker ARadical excellence is boring as hell from the outside.
Speaker AThe.
Speaker AAnd here's another phrase.
Speaker AWrite this down.
Speaker AThe spectacular is usually accumulated ordinary stuff.
Speaker AThe spectacular is usually accumulated ordinary.
Speaker AI'll go back to Steph Curry.
Speaker AHis spectacular shots are the accumulation of an insane amount of ordinary stuff.
Speaker AOkay?
Speaker ANow let's go to the inevitable, which is what happens when you miss because nobody's perfect.
Speaker AAnd all the stuff that I've said about what I practice and do or what I coach people on or whatever about making more money, growing your business, how you show up, telling the truth, taking care of your body, creating yourself in the morning, all those things.
Speaker AWe're never perfect.
Speaker AAnd that's okay.
Speaker AOkay?
Speaker AAnd here's a phrase you can write down.
Speaker AIt's fun.
Speaker AThose who dare greatly fail greatly.
Speaker ASo carry a big blanket of forgiveness.
Speaker AWhat I used to do is I created every failure as a monster indictment.
Speaker AThe screaming voices from the balcony, in the aisles, in the peanut gallery.
Speaker AYeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker AAnd all that does is discourage you and rip you down.
Speaker ARip you down.
Speaker ATurn down people turning you down when you make proposals and saying no, when you're trying to have sales convos and when you're trying to learn to tell the truth or create yourself or go to the gym or whatever it is and you miss or diet or anything.
Speaker AYou know that voice.
Speaker ABurn it down.
Speaker AConsistency can happen in spite of missing because your consistency can become power or it can become shame.
Speaker ASo you miss.
Speaker AThen what?
Speaker AThe old model is you break the streak, you're a failure.
Speaker AYou have self attack and then abandonment.
Speaker ABreak the streak, you are a failure.
Speaker AStomp, loser.
Speaker ARight?
Speaker AThen you attack yourself and you abandon the goal because it's too dangerous.
Speaker ABecause that attack feels horrible.
Speaker ASo here's the truth, the possibility.
Speaker AI won't say the truth.
Speaker AThe possibility for you in the sovereign model, the model where you take control of your life, you notice you.
Speaker AYou fail, you break the streak, you notice, you tell the truth, you forgive, you evaluate, make some adjustments and recommit.
Speaker ANow that's a long thing.
Speaker AWhat I say in my PTAC is whenever I fall or fail in any commitment, I get up, fess up, clean it up and recommit.
Speaker ASimple.
Speaker ANotice the mistake, tell the truth yourself and whoever matters.
Speaker AForgive, evaluate what happened, make whatever adjustments necessary, and then get back on the horse.
Speaker AYou're done.
Speaker ANo ceremony, no January 1st, no Monday.
Speaker ANo.
Speaker AI blew it.
Speaker AJust recommit.
Speaker AThat's consistency.
Speaker ANow, my work right now is direct, consistent, motivated action every day until something ships and keeping service central rather than ego.
Speaker ANow here's what I want you to do.
Speaker APick one conviction, one commitment to yourself, not ten something that you claim matters.
Speaker AJust one thing.
Speaker AAnd then I want you to ask yourself, what does that commitment look like on an ordinary Wednesday morning?
Speaker AWhat is it on an ordinary Wednesday?
Speaker ANot at a conference or after a breakthrough or not when you're inspired, but Wednesday morning, what is that?
Speaker AAnd then see to it that that happens.
Speaker AFierce gets you moving.
Speaker AUnapologetic keeps you from asking permission to be you.
Speaker AConsistency makes it real every day, even after failure.
Speaker AAnd kindness, of course, makes sure you don't destroy yourself or everybody around you while proving how disciplined you are.
Speaker AYour convictions and mine have to survive those ordinary Tuesday afternoons.
Speaker AI love you.
Speaker AYou have every right and capability to live in purpose, prosperity and joy and to just joyfully bask in your ultimate life.
Speaker ARight now.
Speaker AYour opportunity for massive growth is right in front of you.
Speaker AEvery episode gives you practical tips and practices that will change everything.
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