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 and raised in Los Angeles, loved the Lakers. He was fun to watch him

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

who you were yesterday, getting a little bit better, but that requires being honest with

yourself and then identifying what you need to do to improve. And so my question to you,

my exercise for today, think about is, think about a time in your life that you can look

back and say that it was perseverance and hard work that got you your results. And not necessarily

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