Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,790.

For those of you who don't know, Kobe Bryant is and was one of my favorite athletes, born

to raised in Los Angeles, loved the Lakers. It was fun to watch him win all those championships.

And I still find myself going back

and listening to some of his interviews and sharing them with the athletes and the professionals

that I work with. And I recently came across an interview that he did. And I just love it.

It reminded me of a quote that I really love. And Kobe goes on to say this.

He says that I wasn't the most athletic.

I had to look long term.

I had to say, okay, this year I'm going to get better at this.

Next year, that and so forth and so on.

And patiently, I got better.

And then he repeats the word patiently. And then he goes on to say,

it was piece by piece. It was the consistency of the work, the consistency of the work.

Monday, get better. Tuesday, get better. Wednesday, get better. You do that over a period of time.

Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years,

you get to where you want to go. It's simple. And he finishes with it's simple math, close quote.

And what I really love about that is something that we talk about all the time on this podcast, embracing the boredom of consistency day

after day to inch a little bit closer to the best version of yourself every single day.

You're comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, to the father you were yesterday,

to the mother you were yesterday, to the person, the mother you were yesterday, to the person

who you were yesterday, getting a little bit better. But that requires being honest with yourself

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