Consistency Is Only the Starting Point
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
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🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I know you talk about the Oprah Night's success takes about seven. |
| 0:02.8 | 17 and a half years, yeah. |
| 0:03.9 | 17 and a half years? |
| 0:04.8 | Yeah, 10, 5, and 2.5. |
| 0:06.8 | Got it. |
| 0:07.2 | Okay. |
| 0:07.5 | Well, I'm at 7. |
| 0:08.0 | 10 years will get you to 50% of the way. Five will get you to 75% of the way and then 2.5 will get to the rest of the... Oh, no, sorry. 10 will get you to 25% of the way. most people will quit, then the next five years will get you to 50%, then two and a half years to get to 100. |
| 0:24.3 | Things happen in slowly, then all of a sudden. Okay, sorry. I got the math right, finally. Yeah, cool. No, something that I've built an identity around. I'm a behaviorist also is consistency, right? Like, that's something that I'm known for and I do well. Yeah. And for whatever reason, |
| 0:37.6 | I was, I was going for a run earlier, I guess last week. And the mind just popped or the thought |
| 0:44.6 | just popped in my mind, which is consistency is not enough. And that kind of like broke me. I'm like, |
| 0:49.8 | wow, I've built my whole life around consistency. And it's kind of the argument I thought of was like, well, do we eventually plateau |
| 0:56.2 | because we're doing the same things over and over again where now we've reached the ceiling |
| 0:59.6 | of like almost saturated potential and now we need to take a new behavior in order to |
| 1:04.3 | maximize to a new potential? |
| 1:05.8 | Or how do you receive that idea of consistency not being enough? |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.3 | Categorically, consistency is fine, but there's sub-behaviors within, like, sleep. |
| 1:23.7 | So if I, when I started my consistent sleep routine, if I stuck to the exact same routine, |
| 1:27.7 | I would not be where I am today because now there's like the eight sleep bed and a whole bunch of other things we've learned about sleep. |
| 1:30.0 | And I'm constantly, what, doing my best, learning lessons and having fun with sleep. |
| 1:34.5 | But sleep is still a consistent behavior of mine. |
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