5 Lessons That Will Change Your Life

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Consistency creates persistence How can you do something every day and quit? These words don’t even belong in the same sentence. I tell people, look, I just enjoy the consistent, persistent pursuit of my potential every day, whatever it may be that I’m doing—potential as a son when I call my mom, potential as a human being when I work to improve my health by working out, meditating, and eating right, and potential as a business leader when I spend time each day looking for the right new employee to add to the team. It’s the energy of this consistency that is what leads to consistent improvement. And that’s what you need to do to be in the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And I still think to myself, doesn't really matter what I
0:02.7	have in teach you if I can't teach you to be consistent.
0:05.9	This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.
0:08.3	Consistency is the hardest thing for the human body to execute on.
0:13.5	Because there's constant interference to consistency and the mind, the body,
0:18.0	and the soul are stupid, especially the body.
0:21.7	It can't remember. It's so distracting.
0:25.2	Right, but in order for you to be consistent, the body has to use
0:28.6	five faulty senses and a faulty memory in order to remind
0:32.8	ourselves, remind or recollect ourselves or
0:36.4	remember ourselves. We get into theme about how words
0:39.6	remind, recollect, and remember what we're supposed to do in order to
0:43.2	effect what we want. We have to be consistent
0:46.4	and it's hard. I teach discipline. I teach consistency.
0:50.5	I've experienced the benefits of consistency. So how come I can't wake up
0:54.7	the morning and be consistent at everything I want to be consistent at?
0:58.4	Right, whether it's nutrition or working out or how is it I can't be consistent
1:03.6	or even it took me four years to study the course of miracles every day or
1:07.8	nine months to say thank you. I think the guy who stands on the stage
1:10.8	and teaches people to say thank you. Why didn't it take me nine months before I
1:14.1	could do it 30 straight days? The conscious mind tries to protect yourself with
1:18.4	the ego. Well, when you try to do something every day,
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