2 Years of Doing The Same Thing Every Day (Results Inside)

We both quit 900-day Duolingo streaks. Here's what that taught us about consistency.

Jack Austin and Adam Garcia explore why most people fail at consistency and what actually works for long-term change.

After years of waiting for motivation, we discovered the counterintuitive truth: action breeds motivation, not the other way around.

**In this episode:**

✓ Why motivation is backwards (and what to do instead)

✓ The compound interest formula that applies to everything

✓ How $100 becomes $1.3 billion with daily 1% improvements  

✓ Warren Buffett's 90% wealth after 60 secret

✓ The Mr. Fothergill seed story (patience pays)

✓ Why Duolingo keeps you bad on purpose

✓ The sock on the stairs experiment

✓ When to sharpen the saw vs keep grinding

**Key takeaways:**

The gym consistency mistake everyone makes (same exercises matter)

How to spot tiny progress when nothing seems to happen

Why boring beats exciting every single time

The difference between being tired and making real progress

**The one rule that changes everything:**
Pick ONE thing. Do it daily for 30 days. Track what happens.

**Timestamps:**
00:00 Motivation vs consistency
00:03 Action breeds motivation theory  
00:05 The sock protest
00:08 Mr. Fothergill's garden wisdom
00:11 Compound interest mathematics
00:13 Why we quit Duolingo
00:20 Gym consistency secrets
00:34 The chainsaw parable
00:43 Service and showing up
00:51 Your one thing challenge

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Transcript

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Yeah, everyone talks about motivation, but is it really consistency that changes your life for the better? For most of my life, I used to wait to feel motivated, and then I realized that the people winning don't do that. They show up. So today, me and Adam are gonna explore what it means to be consistent and the power that consistency can have in your life, either positively. Negatively. So welcome back to Temporally Scripted and Adam, it's great to see you here again, my friend. Yeah, likewise my friend. It's been a little while, but I guess we're back. We are, we're back. New rooms, new backgrounds, more consistent than ever. More, more consistent. Consistently moving to a new house every six months. Yeah. Escaping something, but I'm not quite sure what exactly. Yeah. Well, this is it. It's not too far away this time, at least. So consistency is an interesting one and I, I think we've both been consistent on, you know, positive and negative things throughout our. Lifetimes and probably more positive than negative these days. But yeah. Yeah.'cause I guess consistency really, it's, it's much the same as habits in many ways. It's just something that you always do in a, a lot of respect, and that can be something amazing, or it can be something absolutely terrible that, completely wrecks your life. It's up to you, which kind of direction you want to go in really. Yeah. You know, like consistently smoking 40 cigarettes a day, for example. Yeah. It might give you a bad cough, but at least you look cool. Yeah. This is it. This is it. But I think motivation is an interesting one to start with because obviously people will say that consistency comes from motivation. And it's something that I would've, agreed with in the past. In my twenties, I would sit there and be like, wow, if only I had more motivation, I'd be able to get on with this and do this thing that I wanna do. And, you know, but I had plenty of motivation to play like. Football manager for 12 hours in a row and, various other things. And I feel like the thing I've learned as I've got older is that motivation is driven by action. Oh, okay. So you, do you, how do you mean like the action comes first and then the motivation increases with the action or. Yeah, I, I don't dunno if I, I'm gonna say that I coined this, but then later we might find out that I got it from somewhere else and I've just forgotten. But the phrase that came up with copy strike, yeah. In my head, is that action breeds motivation. And that means that just doing things is where the motivation to do more things comes from. And I think it's deeper than that in the sense that humans are meant to solve problems. Literally, our whole purpose is to solve the problems that are put in front of us. And if we don't have problems, we create them, in order to then have to push ourselves to be motivated to deal with them. And I also think it's extra fuckery because the better you get at dealing with problems, the bigger the problems become. It could be. Yeah. Just going back a little bit to something you said, it's like, I think we're always meant to be solving problems and doing stuff. So times in my life when I haven't been doing exercise or working out, I seem to be increasingly lazy with everything else about at those times. But then times when I'm going to the gym, like four days a week or something like that, all those little jobs, little things around the house that you might see. And like ordinarily, you'd look at it and go, oh, I'll do that later. When you're in that habit of just doing stuff all the time, if it's like physical or whatever, it doesn't really seem like that much extra effort and you're just like, I'll, I'll do that now. I'll do it. You know, and it's like you get into a different mindset and I dunno if it's like partly the, the closer that we get to our natural state, which is kind of exerting energy and solving problems, maybe for more sort of alive we become and perhaps you, right? That is where motivation comes from. I totally agree with that. Yeah. And I've noticed the same thing is if you are consistently doing something that's a positive habit such as working out or keeping things tidy or whatever, it then bleeds over into to other things. Although, that being said, there has been a sock on my stairs for like the last seven days, and I, and I'm, I'm at a stage where I'm refusing to move it. Because everyone's walking past this sock. It's not my sock. It doesn't belong to me. And I'm kind of staging a little protest by not picking up the sock like I normally would. Right. Are you getting a lot of attention, for, for your protest? So are things changing around the house now that you're laying down for law and it, it seems not. The sock, the sock is still very much present in its place in the middle of the stairs. So yeah, I, I, I'm probably gonna crack today, to be honest. It's like, it's a bit like day 10 of a hunger strike. I just can't stand looking at that. You know, it's like seeing a donut ont 10 of a hunger strike. Like, I can't stand looking at that sock every time I go past it, but, hey ho, that's, that's another story, you know? Good. Well, we'll do a whole episode about the, the SOC protest. Next week, st. Tuned Folks, don't forget to, like Sharon Simpson. Like and subscribe if you want the so story. Yeah, for sure. For sure. But I think one of the things as well about consistency and specifically consistency with, with good habits is it's boring. Yeah, it is. It's not an exciting part of your day. Doing that consistent thing, but I guess whatever it may be, whether it's like spending that hour finding leads for your business or spending that hour in the gym or whatever else, it's not, you don't think, oh, wicked, I can't wait for this. It's like, it is, it's not exciting. It's not like the sort of chaotic sort of spur of the moment kind of decisions that we make it. It is uncomfortably. Boring. Like I found on Monday, I woke up this week on Monday with a, a serious case of the Mondays, you know, and then it rolled into a serious case of the Tuesdays. And, and to be fair, Wednesdays, I'm feeling a bit better today'cause I've seen your face. But, you know, I had a case of the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays this week. And as I was going through that process, I was thinking to myself, I don't drink anymore. I don't smoke. I eat well, I exercise. I get consistently, you know, do all the things that I need to do for my business every day. And it just feels like nothing's happening. It's like I just feel lost in this identity of being, this consistent human. And I think part of it is moving away from an old identity into a new one and that evolving process happens. But I think it's also that when you're doing all the right things consistently. It feels like nothing's happening. And the, the story I, I used for this with someone yesterday was like, when I was a little kid, my dad was really into gardening. my dad was well into to gardening and stuff, and obviously he'd get me involved and we'd. Plant seeds and after a day the seed being planted, I'm like, ah, daddy, you know, what is it? Why is it not growing yet? He's like, son, be faulty. Just be patient. You know? It's only been a day. And I'd wait till he goes away and then I'd secretly go into the greenhouse and uncover the seeds and have a look, be like, ah, yeah, it's not growing yet. Cover it back over. And this would continue for, a few weeks and nothing would grow. Right. So eventually my dad caught onto this. He's like, you know, put barbed wire around the greenhouse. No, not really. Explain smart if you keep checking them. So, lo and behold, as I stopped checking them. And then after a few weeks, suddenly you've got like a tomato plant and a pea. Sprout coming out and it's like, oh wow. Look at all this greenery that's in here, because I left it and it feels like it almost appeared overnight. Yeah, and it's kind of, and I guess it sort of did, but it, it didn't, it took all that time for all the roots to form and all the little networks to be made underneath and everything to like develop and sprout out of the seed. And all of that took time. And I guess that's like of a consistency thing. And it's a good analogy for it as well. But it's like you just kind of set the ball rolling and just let time do the heavy lifting. Yeah. And that's basically what it is. It's kind of like the, sort of thing with compound interest and things like that, which is kind of fascinating in a way. So if you had a hundred dollars today and you could grow it by 1%. Every day. So like tomorrow you'd have $101. The next day you'd have 102 point. But anyway, you're growing it by 1% each day. But after 10 years, you'd have roughly $1.37 billion. Crazy. And that's, yeah, and it's that tiny, tiny little gain every day compound interest is amazing. It's like after you see, if you look at all the numbers on the chart, you see the first bit, no matter what the starting figure is, and it looks really boring. Then all of a sudden it's like, whoa. Really big amounts, but it's going up by every day. And I guess that's the idea in, in life and consistency. It's, it's that if you are improving your business, your health, your life, whatever, by whatever tiny percentage each day, then it's gonna lead to huge things. Einstein called Compound in Press, the Eighth Wonder of the World. Wow. Which is really cool 'cause it is this incredibly powerful thing. And it's same with like Warren Buffet. I think it was 90% of his wealth was made after the age of 60. And again, that's just, it's compounding the interest all the time. And all of a sudden it's like, and you like one of the richest people out there. Crazy. And, and ably, presumable is the new word I've just invented, and we're gonna run with it. Nice. I like it. Yeah. Ably. That's the universal truth, you know, it's like one of those things that just applies to, to everything. Like, like, I guess a, you know, the, the curve of being in. Not understanding something and you're being in that ignorance place and then aware, ignorant, ignorantly aware and blah, blah, blah, all of that. It kind of applies to, to everything. I would guess this compounding effect. Applies to everything, right? Apart from things like duo lingo, because I've been doing that for years and I still can only say that the GOAT is at the train station. But this is the thing with Duolingo, well, they've taken my idea where. People really like to be consistent. And so they've got that thing, oh, just, just spend five minutes a day learning a new language. And you go, okay, and you keep doing it. And I think they've hooked into that thing and that gamification, it's like, oh, my streak's up to like 628 now. Whatever it may be. And they've kind of just gotten into that and got people hooked while at the same time teaching a language in the slowest way imaginable. I remember a while ago I was trying to learn Spanish, and I found these old kind of tapes by a French guy called Michelle Thomas, who is like a, he's like a war hero and he spoke like five different languages and stuff like that, but he had this, technique of teaching Spanish in just this amazing way. By the end of one lesson, you're just like. I can sell this stuff. That's amazing. With Duolingo, like you say, you just keep going on and it's like, the carrot likes to ride in a boat or, and it's. But then it comes to like ordering in a restaurant and you dunno how to say, I'd like a table for two. You know, it's this bizarre thing. Well if you think about it, there's no reason or benefit for them, for you to learn the language quicker. Because if you're a free user of it, they will be able to send you more adverts, which means they can boost their numbers and get more advertising revenue. And if you're a paid user, you're paying like a monthly or an annual fee for using it. So there's no, there's no incentive for them for you to learn a language. But the, the thing is, you'd think there would be in the sense that once you've learned one language, if you've learned it really easily and really well. You might think, oh, do you know what I, I wanna learn cling on now or something. And you know, you can go and spend another bit of time learning whatever else. So, and enriching your life with Clingons, I mean, exactly. If you go, you know, you'd be the life and soul at any, you know, one of those weird cosplay events that people go to. Oh, conventions. Oh, that's what it's called. Yeah. Cosplay something else. Isn't it terrible? Shouldn't say that when you live as close to Japan as we do. But yeah, there's no real benefit to Duolingo teaching people how to, you know, how to learn languages. And I actually went through the pressure of deleting my Duolingo with a three year streak about nine months ago. I had like a three year streak. I gave up mine and mine was, yeah, mine was almost three years or maybe over actually. It was unlike 900 and something but yeah, it was a lot of time I'd spent on it and it just got to a point where I was like, this is pointless. And it got, it's like started learning chess on it rather than learning the language. And it's just like, and that was kind of the same thing, just these repetitive things where you're not, it's not really teaching you that much. And there's so much, so many faster ways to learn. And like you say, it's not in their interest for you to get good at this language and then go, all right, I don't need that anymore. They just want to keep everybody on there for as long as possible. Yeah, for me it was like I was going in there every day and basically just doing the first lesson in like 25 seconds just to keep my streak going.'cause I was like, I can't be bothered to actually learn anything. I'm just gonna, and your level of forgetting things as well, like if you get to quite high levels on it. Then you don't do it 'cause you're just doing the easy lesson every day for a couple of weeks to get through your streak. If you go back and try and do the hard lesson, you've forgotten it all.'cause it's just not, it's not going in the mind in any way, shape, or form. So yeah, again, I think, you know. One of those things that you can be very consistent with but not actually get anything out of. And I think there's a danger to that as well, isn't there? It's like you can consistently be doing something that you even think is a good habit. And I'm not talking, you know, I consistently drink beers after work. Like everybody knows that that's not good for you and it's gonna catch up with you eventually. But then there's. You know. Yeah.'Cause you know, it can be like a Monday night and everyone's out barbecuing and, and beer. But it could be a Monday lunchtime or a wedding at.

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00 AM or something. Oh yeah.'cause isn't it something like, people go to see like a, a monk or a fortune tell or something and they tell them like the best time to get married. And so it can be at some like ludicrous time for morning and maybe it's like if they don't. Pay for, for Monk or whatever, enough money, or they just decide if they wanna have a joke, they'll go, Hmm.

I think about, 6: 15:56

15 AM is a good time for you two to get married. Just having a lend on it. So I guess we've both done a very similar thing with Duolingo and just gone on like the really easy mode where it's like a match or something like that and do that for like two minutes a day or something. Has that been beneficial or have you just wasted loads and loads of time? That time I lost my glove at the train station. It was super useful, but apart from that, yeah, It was 38 degrees in Hanoi and I happened to be going through the train station in my pair of wool and gloves. I took one of them off so that I could book a grab 'cause these wool and gloves are not the new kind where you can use a phone with them on. I left it on a bench and as I went out, I exclaimed to the taxi driver. My glove is in the train station and he knew exactly what I said and he went in and got it for me. It was awesome. Yeah. Well I guess maybe that's, that's worth its weight so, you know, I think we need to be careful, but it also adds a, a level to consistency because you start to wonder if you're doing the right things when nothing's happening. And I feel like the way that I know if a habit's a good habit or a bad habit is how quickly you feel any kind of change or any kind of benefit. One of the things that I always questioned was like. Fitness.'cause I've been going to the gym for a couple of years. And I felt like I've not really changed. Like there's not that much of a, a difference, that there clearly is, but it's not massive. And then you start to question, well, am I doing the right things? Am I doing the right exercises? Am I doing this and that? But then I actually realized that I did have a consistency problem because I was going in and doing different exercises every time in the gym. It's like a lot of people think that you go in and. Co. The consistent bit is going to the gym four times a week, but you should also just do the same bench, the same incline, the same shoulder, shoulder press, or whatever shoulder exercise you use. It shouldn't be, you go in one week and do shoulder press, and then the next session you're doing dumbbell shoulder press and then the next one you're on the machine.'cause you never build up the base of strength to move on. And so again, it's like, the fun I had in the gym has to go away'cause I need to do the same five, six damn exercises every time I go in for an extended period of time. And it is quite interesting. And even to diet like this sounds mad and you're gonna think I'm an idiot when I tell you this, but I always used to think that, say if you used to eat like burgers or whatever all the time and pizza and you were roughly like this amount of calories. It's pretty much, you know, for me, I was gaining fat. Then you change and you start eating really healthily and you, you know, you work out loads and you go to the gym. If you don't end up in a deficit, you won't get any less fat and your body won't change. You'll get stronger and you might have a little bit of a recomposition, but nothing major. It's like unless you go into a deficit or into a surplus, if you're trying to gain muscle. Nothing will ever change. So you can literally go from just eating Oreos all day to the calorie level, like we mentioned, I think in one of the other ones, to eating like salads and whole foods and all of that and training. And unless something is either up or down, depending on which direction you're going in. Nothing will change. You'll just get a bit healthier, but you'll still hold all the fat. And I was like, what? That's, that's mental. A balance between energy and energy out. Yeah. And that's physics. I get it. But I was just like, what? It just, it just didn't seem right to me. Like surely I would improve in some way, but no, apparently not. And now I'm in a deficit and eating tons of protein. I'm seeing it starting to change quite rapidly. It is weird, man. I think with some of the gym stuff as well, it depends what you wanna get out of it. At the same time, it's like if you do want to grow like a certain set of muscles, then do a certain set of exercises all the time I already have a bigger right forearm, but for different reasons that we won't go into 'cause we don't wanna get banned. But, but anyway, I think the, the main thing is though, with the Jim as well, it's like whatever you're doing in that, generally you're going in and it's like. It, it's a tough workout. By the end of it, you're tired and it's like you are exercising all those muscles. You do, you are getting stronger, whether you realize it or not. And then also it's like how many years are you adding to your life by doing it? And I guess that's one of the things that you get from it, but you don't always know, and you're not gonna think at the age of 79, oh, I would've been dead at 62 if I'd had continued for where I was before. You get the payoff, but you don't realize it. Maybe by working out and taking supplements and different things you. You get sick one time, but you're not as sick as you would've been had you not taken the supplements and worked out, but you can't gauge that. You can't tell, you just you're still sick and feeling like crap, but, but you don't realize that you feel a lot less like crap than you would have. Yeah, because you can't see, see what that reality would've been like. And I think as well, it's, you know, it's one of the things that I remember very much when I was a smoker and whatnot. I would always go to that story of, you know, the one uncle or auntie or something that lived to a hundred and smoked 20 a day their whole life. And, you know, you always kind of, you look for that one thing. Nobody ever goes the, you know, the one uncle that was quite fit and healthy and lived to a hundred because it's much more common. You have a fit and healthy relative or member that lives to an old age. And it is, it's that classic thing. It's like you people struggle to be honest in those situations the same way, I dunno about you, but as a smoker, I was like, oh, I like it. I enjoy smoking. I don't wanna stop. Why would I wanna stop? It's great. I love it. It's like, okay, did do you really stinking and putting that horrible, smokey thing in your mouth, and even if you've got a cold or a cough, you still go in and like, and it's the most smoking when you've got a bad throat and you're sick. It's like. The most horrible thing ever, but I know I've done it. Oh yeah, same a a lot. Oh, I'm feeling slightly better actually. I think I could go and have a cigarette now. It's like, damn. Oh, you know, you really sick if you like, haven't had a cigarette for two days or something. So like, oh, I haven't even smoked for two days. You know, it's killing me. It's killing me. This not being able to smoke. It's crazy. So you can kind of understand why people struggle with consistency, right? Because there's no, you know, there's no instant sign that you're doing the right thing. There's no, there's no like reward in the short term for consistency. It's like it's so slow that you barely notice that anything is happening. It's like the thing that you said with the seeds where if you plant a tomato seed now, you're not gonna be eating tomatoes from that plant tomorrow. You have to wait for it to grow. You have to wait for it to go through the whole season and then you can have some tomatoes. And I think a lot of consistency in life, it's like that, but. On an even longer timeframe. It makes total sense. And I think as well, it's like when you're learning something that's hard, it takes time and, you don't necessarily feel like anything is working or moving forward. And then what do you, what do you do to, to feel that? Dopamine that rush. You know what, what, what do you do instead? I guess you just have to get used to the feeling of, of nothing changing or moving, which is really, really difficult, I think. And yeah, I dunno. And I don't, I dunno how, how you deal with that. I'll frame it in. Your mind because it's cool if you're working on something and it all the way along. You, there's like little bits like say if you were making, I dunno, say if you were making, an album or something like that and you've gone, okay, well I've finished another track this week that's wicked. I've got the guitar done for this bit. Or you know, and it's like, it's near in completion all the time, but you're consistently working on it for. Maybe months or something like that. But you get in all these little bits where it's like, oh, cool, I've hit this stage. This is done. Awesome. But with other things where you're just not getting, you are not really getting that so much. You can go, oh, well I've sent like, sort of 275 emails this week. I didn't get any responses. So yeah, if you need to reframe it and go well. Wicked. I applied myself and I sent all these emails. That's really cool. And have that as almost like a celebration or something. But it's easy to do it when out of all those emails you got like a hundred responses or something like that. Yeah. And I think that it's like, one of the important things of consistency. Is using the data that you are getting from that process and reacting to it, right? Because if you send 273 emails and you don't get any replies, there's likely a reason for that that you can probably figure out. Like you can go and look at the way you wrote those emails and what you did and rule that out as a method that works. You know, this method does not work. Okay? Now, next week, I'm gonna try this method. And it's like, that's still I'm knocking door to door. Yeah, exactly. Like it's still consistent because you're doing the same action. And I think that does make sense and it comes into something that came through in your research in the fact that a lot of people will mistake exhaustion for consistency. But you do need to make sure that. The little signs of movement are there. Whenever you're doing any of these things right? There should be some movement. It shouldn't be that like nothing at all ever is changing. Like if you're going in the gym and lifting like. 20 kilos on the, on the bench press and after like three months you're still at 20 kilos. Then there's probably something not quite right unless it's lateral raises, in which case it'll be five kg until you die, basically. You know? You know the whole Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Unless it's In which case it's fine. There's no problem. You're like, you go in and you see guys that are massive. You know, full of roids and they're still five kg. This looks funny 'cause it's like a tiny little weight in my hand. Yeah, yeah. Like if you feel an extra week, you might have to go and get the two point fives, but there is an important point there. It's like I think one of the skills of consistency is getting good at noticing the signs of progress, noticing the very small changes that are happening and celebrating them and being grateful for them and, spotting that so for example, for me in business, whenever I speak to people they say how good my content is. I don't necessarily get tons of business through my content right now, but content takes a long time. People have to get a certain amount of ideas from your stuff before they decide to take an action. So the fact that people are mentioning my content to me more than they were before might not seem like a massive thing, but it means that it's landing, you know, like it means that people are seeing it and it's working. It might not be in the numbers yet, it might not be in the amount of likes or comments or subscriptions or whatever, but there is a sign of movement. Yeah. And so I guess to a certain degree it's good to sort of focus on those things, those changes that happen. So it might not be that everything's going away, but it might be like, oh, well it's cool 'cause I got responses or messages or comments from people or instead of doing whatever waste on this machine, I've now knocked that up by two and a half kilos or whatever this week, and I still did like my 15 wraps or something. Yeah. And sort of making like little celebrations of things.'cause I would imagine that kind of helps a lot in your mind because it just feels more like progress. Yeah, and I mean also having a realistic idea and expectation of how long something should take, roughly speaking, right? So obviously, you need to be careful on your source and you need to get a range. But if we take the business example again, most businesses don't make any money for two years. Like it's pretty normal for you to just struggle and barely make ends meet for two years. So if your expectation is you start something and within like a month, you're gonna have like. Yes, you're gonna make some money and then you're gonna go, oh, well now I need to do this course to get better at advertising or, I need to learn this process with this coach so that I can jump this level or whatever. And then, you know, so you make 5K, spend 5K, make 5K, spend 5K. Oh, I need this new system. I need this a hundred dollars a month thing. So it's like, it's gonna be like this as you go through that. As you mentioned at the beginning, the compound interest graph, right? And for a business, the minimum point where that will start to go, like this is two years, it could be five years. Do you know what I mean? Like where before it really starts to go in the other direction. So I think one of the things that that leads you to is, there's a story about this guy who's like, always wanted to buy a chainsaw, right? And, but there's like a big storm and one of the trees in his garden falls down and he is like, says to his wife, right, I'm gonna go buy a chainsaw. And she's like, ah, just hire someone to come in and do it. He is like, no, I'm gonna go get the chainsaw. So he goes and buys this chainsaw, comes home, gets it out, ready to go. Straight through the chunk of one of the trees, and then again straight through the next chunk, straight through the next chunk, and then suddenly he is like trying to get through this bit and it's not going anywhere. And he is there for hours, like trying to make it work. And he is wondering if there's something wrong with the saw and thinks, I've only just got this, surely I don't need to sharpen it yet. And he carries on, and then after like seven hours he is sat there defeated with three logs and a whole tree still in the garden. His wife's laughing at him from the window and stuff and he is like, right, I'm gonna go and get a sharpener. So he, he stops what he's doing, leaves the garden, goes to the store, buys a sharpener, comes back, sharpens the chainsaw, and then. Buzzes through the rest of the tree in like 20 minutes, 30 minutes. And the reason I'm telling this story is that like, sometimes with consistency, you need to take a break and sharpen the saw, right? You need to just, step back and go, right, let's just have a bit of time and figure out what's the best way to move forward. And it applies to everything. It's even like with the gym, you know, they tell you to do a deload every six weeks or eight weeks. So you still go in, but you just live really lightweights for a week to give your body a chance to catch up and recover and all of this kind of stuff. Yeah, all the tendons and connective tissues and all that kind of thing. Yeah. So I think that's, a really important thing for people to keep in mind when they're following this path of consistency is like, you still need to be able to read the signs of when do you take a break, when do you learn something else that's gonna help you, and when do you just step back and let your brain process all the stuff that you're doing, you know? Yeah, 'cause it's difficult as well.'cause you could take some time out and reassess and you could kind of go, I'm doing the completely wrong thing, it's not what I want to be doing. But then you already invested in the consistency that you've had going and it's like, oh, do I just wanna quit that now? You know what I mean? It's like, 'cause you could be doing some business and it's like a complete sort of dead end kind of thing. But then you go, but I've been consistent on this for like, the last so many years and it's not really got anywhere. But, you know, and it's, that's one of the things with consistency as well, because it is for, it's on such a long time scale sometimes. That if you get into it, but then you later realize this isn't the thing that you want to do. It could be for all kinds of reasons. You could sort of have some epiphany and decide that, oh, actually, it's like morally wrong to be in this business or whatever else it may be. Or that it just isn't what you want to do. But then it seems like you've invested so much into that one thing that that can make it really difficult too. To make the decision to cut it away. Forget consistency. Everybody just, just give up. You, you heard it, you heard it here first, The thing then is like every experience leads you somewhere. You know? I think taking those breaks where you're like, do you know what? I don't really feel like this is the right thing. Your intuition's generally right on those things. It's a different voice that tells you to quit stuff when it's because you think it's too hard than the voice that's like, this just does not feel right. There's a difference. And I think learning to listen to yourself better. Like I've had to rebuild many times in my life, and it doesn't scare me. Like, if I go to zero, it doesn't, I don't care.'cause I've done it so many times. It's like, I, you know, I've reinvented myself and moved into new things. Many times in my life. And I think the older you get, the more you've done that. So you know that something will happen and something will move. So it makes it easier. And at the same time, it's like you're picking up a skill or an experience that is giving you what you need for wherever you're meant to be. You know? My wife said this to me yesterday. She's like, sometimes you have to accept that, existence is like being in a river. You just have to let it take you places sometimes. And the problem I have is I like to control things, so I'm trying to fight it to take me in this You're trying to build it down? Yeah. And it is one of those things, it's kind of like Marcus Aurelius thing of like, don't, don't get angry or upset about something that's completely out of your control.'cause it doesn't matter if you get upset about it or angry or not, not gonna change it. It's like you wanna go out for a picnic, but it starts raining. So you get angry, you go out outside and just start shouting at the sky, you know? And it's like, well, the sky doesn't care and it's not gonna stop. Just so you have a nice day. Yeah. I mean, which I've tried it a few times, it just doesn't, it doesn't work, you know? Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah. You know, if, if anything, it gets you taken away and put in section, so. Have you tried, shouting at the sock on the stairs yet to see if, see if that helps. Yeah, I think that might be the next move. Or, or at least going and shouting at family members to see, you know, who's, who's responsible for the sock on the stairs. but yeah, I think going back to like, Marcus Aurelius and, and, and these kind of folks, it's, yeah, it is a good mindset to be in about consistency and just showing up and making the best of what you can do every single day. Because I mean, there's a, there's a big thing just to that as well. Just actually being in that mindset of just whatever you are gonna do, do it as well as you possibly can. You know, and I think that's the thing that maybe it's why. There's a lack of consistency in the younger generations than there was in the older generations. You know?'cause I think a lot more people, like 30, 40 years ago, whatever it was they were doing, whether it was a job, whether it was a business, were more likely to just turn up and do their best every day. And I think people do that a lot less now. I think that's because you can literally be like, you know, making mud cakes for your family in some central African country while watching like Mr. Beast on TikTok, getting people to stand in squares for like a million dollars or whatever. Do you know what I mean? So everyone has, it is easy to get delusions of grandeur and like, what you think you deserve or where you should be in life and not just be happy with what you're doing. And it's, something that annoys me because I am of that belief, and I've always been that way. If I have a job, whether, you know, I used to work in a call center. I used to work in a camping shop, like helping people put up tents when I was a student. I've done all kinds of jobs. I've washed people's cars when I was a young teenager, I've always done it with pride, and the pride for me is always to go and do the best possible job that I can do. So people will be like, do you know what? Jackie's a good guy. He works hard, he does his best. And for me, that's enough of a reward. So when I go to a restaurant and get served really badly or. Someone comes and collects my bins and leaves rubbish all outside the front of my house and stuff. It makes me angry. And my wife will sometimes say, oh, well, you know, it's 'cause it's a, it's a rubbish job or whatever and you know, they don't rubbish job. That was a good pun. I didn't even mean to do that, but that was, that was an accident. But yeah. Do you know what I mean? It's, it's a, it's, it's garbage that job. And that's why, that's why, you know, I never tip them. So, but yeah, it is not an excuse for me because you should just show up and do your best or don't do it. Go and do something else. You know, there's always a choice. So I think, back to what you said about, stoicism and stuff, it's like people used to show up and do it because they didn't know any different. There was no, you didn't see like people living these crazy, lavish lifestyles all over your feed and social media every day. Yeah, and I guess maybe you go back a few hundred years ago in England, but there'd be a castle in the distance. You know, there's like. There's a king or whatever in there, and he's got lots of nice stuff, having a nice time, but it's way over there and you don't see the insides of it and the inside goings on and what, what a luxurious life that might be, whereas now it is everywhere. And I, I guess we've had it for years where you've had like, tabloid newspapers or celebrity magazines or whatever where it's all about. Celebrity culture and people that have way more money than you. And it's, and I guess in the past we just didn't have that so much. Yeah. I think because people wanna sell things to people that are not lazy, but want an easy route to get stuff done, they don't talk about, well, it starts more they do now, but they don't talk about their journey. And most of the people that have made tons of money. That weren't born into it, have done it through consistency. Yeah. And actual, a lot of consistency as well.'cause often it's times of, like going bankrupt a number of times or certain things not panning out or whatever. And then all of a sudden being on this like multi-million, multi-billion dollar company. Yeah, you won't find a billionaire or a multimillionaire out there that hasn't got close before and lost it all and had to go again. It'll be very unusual to find someone that that hasn't happened to, you know? And I think you have to prepare yourself for that in life. It's like something will come up. I think it's going back to even the fitness stuff and like the health stuff is, like you said, suddenly you get this disease that might happen to you anyway, but the difference between you and another person will be that you're like, well, I'm just gonna carry on anyway. I'm gonna keep doing this thing anyway, even if I have this illness or this problem, or I'm gonna get back to it. It's not like you go, oh, I've got cancer now I'm gonna start smoking and drinking again.'cause I might as well. It's like, yeah. Even sometimes terminal ones. It's for people who have that good mindset to sort of like, carry on, going, remain positive and sort of say, yeah. Okay, well that's it. I'm just just gonna keep on going, blah up the ones that live through it. Longer or recover faster. It's same with like longevity as well, which I think we've covered before, where it's like the people that are always like doing things and have like a positive, proactive attitude to life, they age better than other people who don't. Totally. Yeah. Totally. And I think it is, again, it's, it is, it is a habit in itself and it's also a a, an understanding and a feeling of like when you start to see those results. Then you know that the being consistent in the longer run is inevitable. You know, the, the results are inevitable. It's like if I keep living the way I'm living, like things will happen. Even if you have a slip, like in the summer, I went a month around everyone's birthday where I was drinking, and when I was drinking, I was smoking. But it was so much easier for me to just switch that off than it was the first time that I stopped drinking and smoking, for example. Yeah. And that's just, and that's just this year, and that's just this year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it was, it gets much easier because you know, you know the signs of, of that process. Right. You know that, you know, first couple of days it's easy. Third day it's like, ah. And then, then it's okay again. You know the pattern, the feeling. It's like you, you know that it's gonna end and it's gonna be better once it's gone. You're not thinking, man, am I? You know, if you think the first time you ever try and quit something or do something. You think that that feeling will last forever. That horrible. Yeah. And you have that almost like nervous kind of energy around and it's like, yeah, is this ever gonna go away? Yeah. And the same when you go to the gym. It's like you first go and you feel a bit anxious 'cause there's lots of other people in there and you're like, am I, am I doing it right? You know? And then you start to realize that everybody probably thinks like that. And then eventually you just don't care anymore and you'll go in and you know. Do whatever. And it just becomes a thing that you do. And I guess that's a thing with consistency as well, where you want it to be a bit like the gym thing, where it just becomes like, it's just that thing that I do and you kind of just. Do it without thinking about it and without it being like a big deal or whatever. That's, I guess that's the ideal anyway, that you're just making consistent progress on something and it's not being a chore, it's just part of your everyday life. Just like how you'd brush your teeth it just becomes like a daily thing. I like that. It's like, I want that on a t-shirt. That needs to be the way forward. So how would we wrap this up to our listeners and to our audience, like what's the one golden nugget of advice on consistency, Adam, that you would give our avid listenership. If listeners of you out there, should subscribe and watch each show consistently including shots and everything. I agree with that. And then we will consistently make more money. And of course we will give more back to our viewership in the listenership, in the way of our pearls of wisdom, you know. So EE exactly.'cause they don't come cheap. How about yourself? Do you have, anything to wrap yourself with in terms of consistency? Yeah, so I think for me it's about picking one thing and starting slowly with it. And then watching it develop. So if you've someone right now who's not really got many habits and you can't stick to the same thing and you feel like you're jumping around all over the place in terms of what you're doing, just pick one thing, whether it's going for like a 20 minute walk every day or doing 10 pushups, or you know, picking up that sock on the stairs. Just make sure that you do it every single day. Do it for a month, six weeks, and. Be conscious of what is changing and happening and how your thought process is in your head while you're going through it, and that you'll find that you can, you can apply that to then many other things. Once you've mastered one thing, you find it easy to master everything else. Exactly. So that would be, that would be my advice. So next week we don't really know what we're doing, so we will tell you, in that video when you tune in, so there's a cliffhanger for you. If you've enjoyed this, tell your friends, tell your mom, tell your dad. Get us some more likes. Get us some more subscribes. Consistently come and watch our videos and until the next time. Adam, thank you very much for coming today. I appreciate your presence as always. Indeed, sir. And see you next time folks.