#374: Be Consistent, The Key To Unlocking Your Full Potential,

Consistency is the foundation of success in every aspect of life. Making multiple small, correct decisions over time leads to great results – the same way that going to the gym consistently is the only path to physical improvement.

• Consistency equals results – not the other way around
• Success is not a lottery ticket but the compound effect of small, correct decisions
• The first step of failure is inconsistency
• Identify your shortcomings by tracking where you lack consistency
• Create a detailed schedule to visualize gaps and opportunities
• Balance different areas of life requiring consistency (physical, emotional, professional)
• Solutions often require adjusting schedules and priorities
• Three keys to consistency: more time, better organization, and action tracking
• Use a checklist to monitor progress and reinforce consistent behavior
• Balance is critical – you can't lean too far in any one direction

Use a checklist, make a schedule, and create more time in your day. I promise you, if you follow these steps, your life will be exponentially changed and you'll be so much more organized.

Chapters

• 0:00 Be Consistent: The Foundation of Success
• 2:39 Identifying Personal Shortcomings
• 4:22 Solutions: Schedule Adjustments for Consistency
• 7:02 Balancing Comedy Career and Income
• 9:30 The Golden Resolution: Time and Organization
• 11:09 Key Takeaways and Final Thoughts

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

be consistent. You know, I was thinking to myself the other day how, in addition to not just having a mission something I said the prior week and really fulfilling yourself mentally and physically and everything else, to really go along with that, you really need to be consistent. Like, imagine this Imagine if you went to the gym once a month. Imagine if you went to the gym once a week. Okay, is it better than nothing? Yeah, but you're not being consistent enough to actually get any results. Now, I've said this before, but there's this really, really great, excellent book called the Compound Effect and it basically has to do with making multiple small, correct decisions. Four, but there's this really, really great, excellent book called the Compound Effect and it basically has to do with making multiple small, correct decisions which, over time, equal a great result. Okay, no different than eating me doing standup comedy, a guy shooting a lot of jump shots. If you're going to be consistent, you got to realize that consistency equals two results, doesn't work the other way around. All right, great results is not a lottery ticket. You don't do one thing great one time and then you're done. Okay.

Speaker 1: 1:21

And I was thinking that the other day because, out of all the different aspects of your life, out of my life and stuff, whether it's between personal or physical, emotional, meditating, jujitsu, comedy, everything. There's a lot to do. You got to be consistent in all of that, because anything that you start to be less consistent with, automatically you begin to fail. The first steps of failure is inconsistency, and that's why I really wanted to talk about this today, as always, only for like a few minutes of your time, my time, etc. Because hearing the right thing doesn't just make a physical imprint because you're hearing it, but also me as the one saying it. It makes a physical imprint to instill these actions in my own life, which is why I document it and it's important to me to say so. Here's the thing I can only speak for myself and my failures, you know. As far as being able to like make corrections, you have to know what mistakes you are, and I'm just going to say a few of mine out loud because maybe you, as a listener, you can sort of think of where your shortcomings are. So, and not just that, also how to overcome them, which is what I wanted to talk about today.

Speaker 1: 2:39

So, physical health I don't exercise enough Jiu-jitsu. That's a problem right now as far as me. Being consistent and doing comedy shows the amount, the quantity. You know how do I combine it all. I got to make a schedule and if you make a schedule you can physically see all of your shortcomings and where you have time to fill them, plain and simple right.

Speaker 1: 3:05

As far as jiu-jitsu goes, I'm only really training once a week now and that's not consistent enough. That's not going to make me successful to be able to continue to evolve and get better and stuff like that. So I'm having to change my schedule working from going in the mornings to maybe a midday, maybe a night class. Problem with the night class, to be completely honest with you, is if I exercise at night, I feel awful, I feel like I don't get a good night's rest and it messes me up the next day. So is it better than nothing? Yes, but I'm just going to have to try to go to the noon classes. That's also hard because imagine leaving your work in the middle of the day to exercise. Again, it's another problem, but it's the only solution that's working for right now. And I don't go at nights also because I need the nights to be able to think clearly and work on comedy. That's number one. Number two physically exercising.

Speaker 1: 4:19

Now that my schedule has changed, I'm noticing that I'm running into that problem of having to exercise at night, so I'm getting up earlier. I'm getting up around 4 o'clock in the morning, so think about that and, honestly, that just means that I'm going to bed earlier. If you get up earlier, you're going to want to go to bed earlier. You get equal amounts of rest. Two problems, two solutions.

Speaker 1: 4:42

And as far as comedy shows go, I'm getting booked less because my level of my level of performance now requires more money and I'm getting booked less, but I'm getting paid more. However, I want to get booked more. So what's the solution to that? Solution to that guys is that I'm just going to have to, upon my choice, let them know which is what I'm going to do today. I'm making phone calls to people that I've said no to and swinging back to them and just let them know that you know I will be willing to work with you and do a show for your company or your whatever at a lesser price, but I want to do two shows, or I want to be booked a second time, you know. Or, on top of that, just let them know that I have new material that I want to try, so it's a little bit more risky, um, but we both win.

Speaker 1: 5:36

You know, typically for a one hour I get paid a certain amount and, uh, people, and if I get paid, if I do like 15 minutes, I get paid a less amount, right, but people want to book me for an hour. For what other people pay me for only 15 minutes because, no fault of the client, people don't know what to pay a comedian, right, without being too vague, on average ballpark you should be making $2,000 for one hour, okay, so if I'm doing a one hour show, stand-up comedy, I'm going to get $2,000. Which means, if you divide that by four, if I do 15 minutes, I should get paid $500. But I got people reaching me saying they want to pay me a hundred for a whole hour. It's like that's 20 times less than I get paid, right. So I'm telling these people that I'm willing to do maybe 20 minutes for 500, which I feel like is comparable, you know, cause it's more than it's more minutes than I do for a 15-minute rate.

Speaker 1: 6:48

I don't want to get into the woods too much. I don't want to come back to what I'm talking about. My point is that I need to find adjustments to be able to get booked more so that I can have more stage time, because that is me getting experience for myself. You know what I mean More repetitions, which is what I need and I want. You know what I mean More repetitions, which is what I need and I want, because part of the goal of being infamous, all right is to be able to be known in many different places.

Speaker 1: 7:21

For example, yesterday I was at Costco and a guy that I did a show for before he was actually the teller and he said, hey, do you do stand-up comedy? And he recognized me and I said, yeah, I do, I do. He said, oh, I saw you. I saw you at like a show. And I was like, oh yeah, thanks, man, appreciate it. You know, glad I made you laugh and stuff like that. So he got my contact information and stuff. He didn't have my Instagram at that moment, but he has it now and and yeah it. And yeah, it was a great, cool, random moment, but it's because I was being consistent.

Speaker 1: 7:52

I used to get booked a lot more. I used to get booked a lot more, right, but I got paid a lot less. Now I get paid a lot more and I get booked less. So I want to find a happy golden ratio, so to speak, of where I'm getting booked more and having more stage time, because the reality is is that those are still guys and girls at a show of 400 people or something, that I might get booked less but they'll remember me and they'll remember me for a later date to where maybe they're not paying $2,000 individually Okay, uh, but they're paying $20 for a ticket to come see me at a local comedy club, or 50 or a hundred or whatever it is Right.

Speaker 1: 8:37

So, um, those are some of my failures, those are some of my shortcomings, but the golden resolution to a lot of it is more time and more organization. If you have more time, you can get more done, plain and simple. Plus, you have to leave time for errors and stuff like that you know random stuff that may happen that gets in the way of your schedule. And then, secondly, have a schedule. I have a legit Excel spreadsheet breaking up all parts of my day and right now, since my schedule changed, I'm still making updates, I'm still working on it and stuff. So if you have a checklist, that's one and not in this particular order, a checklist A, a spreadsheet, you know, with an actual schedule B and then C more time you can get relatively anything accomplished.

Speaker 1: 9:30

Now, when I started this little episode, I said that if you just listen, I'll tell you how you can take those different principles of being more consistent, noticing your failures and how to overcome them. Well, if you do this, you will have time to be more consistent, you will have the organization to be more consistent and you will be making more actions, therefore making you more consistent. And how do you know that you got things accomplished? Because you have a checklist. I guarantee, if you just follow these few steps, your life will be exponentially changed and you'll be so much more organized. I mean, imagine going to the gym and not really knowing what exercises you're going to be doing that day.

Speaker 1: 10:08

All right, now apply that principle okay to your life, okay to your diet, to your personal relationship, making time to go out with your significant other, to give time to yourself. That's another thing that I talked about. These are all very, very important things and, going back to what I originally first said, is I got a lot going on, but guess what? So do you? Everybody does physically, emotionally right and every other way, and you got to keep them all balanced. You can't be left, you can't be right, you got to be about, you got to be squared up on your feet, all right, and everything that you do, because that's how you're going to be successful, not just in life, but spiritually and mentally, and again physically and everything else and so forth and so on.

Speaker 1: 10:54

So, anyway, I know this was more like a blueprint and a little bit more long than I usually go I usually go about like five or six minutes but I just wanted to share this information because as, again, I won't ever be able to repeat it enough. Right, this isn't just for you, this is for me, because this is a physical imprint of me hearing it and saying it and documenting life lessons learned, and not just that, imprinting it in my life so that I apply it. So, aside from you saying it, if you're just hearing it, you can do it in your life too, and this, I promise you, this is going to make a big difference and pay dividends in your life. So, that being mentioned, I hope everybody has a beautiful rest of your day.

Speaker 1: 11:37

I got my checklist in front of me. Updating the podcast is on it. I already checked it off and I'm going to upload this and be done it soon. And on to the next part of my schedule, schedules, checklist and time. Add more time, make a schedule, make a checklist. I'm Benja, well done, check me out, peace.