The trait that separates the best athletes in the world from everybody else, in my opinion, is consistency.

In my conversations with these highly competent, incredibly competitive men and women,

we often discuss their own performance systems, what they're learning, their adjustments they're making,

and one thing I've noticed about these elite level professionals

is that they don't execute their system perfectly all the time. But they've learned to get back

on track quickly. Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua,

episode 2,218. Now I want you to think about yourself. Do you have a way back?

Do you have a way back after the workout you skipped?

After the conversation you avoided.

After the moment you lost patience with one of your kids,

after the week that got swallowed up by travel or pressure,

exhaustion, emotion, consistency is not about never falling off.

It's built by knowing how to get back on track. And that's what I see every day from these

men and women. The best of them are not consistent because they have perfect conditions.

In fact, quite the opposite is true.

They have a lot of pressure, a lot of scrutiny,

injuries, hard conversations, uncertainty.

They're consistent because they've learned to return

to what matters again and again.

We've talked about this before, but years ago,

there was this marshmallow test that by dr mitt

michel and it became fame it's a famous story about willpower essentially a famous study about

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