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In today’s episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros clarify why consistency is not simply a matter of motivation, discipline, or doing the same thing every day. Real consistency depends on whether your habits can survive pressure, setbacks, changing conditions, and the temptation to quit when progress feels slow.

Kevin and Alan break down the five areas that often determine whether someone follows through: self-belief, humility, sustainability, adaptability, and grit. They explain how one weak area can quietly limit your progress, even when your goals and intentions are strong. This episode offers a practical framework for identifying what is actually holding you back and building habits that support long-term personal growth, performance, health, and success.

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Show notes:
(3:12) The five drivers of consistency
(4:00) Why sustainable habits start small
(5:55) Adaptability when plans fall apart
(11:36) Self-belief, grit, and follow-through
(19:03) How your peers affect consistency
(23:57) Why consistency drives long-term results
(26:32) Outro

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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) There is way more to being consistent than just showing up every single day and doing the same behavior, just like there's way more to almost everything else. (0:09) And if you are missing one of the things we're talking about today, that is the reason it feels impossible to be as consistent as you want to be.

Alan Lazaros

(0:16) On Tuesday in group coaching, we taught the consistency star. (0:20) Everyone has a different bottleneck to why they are not more consistent.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:25) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:27) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:29) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazaros.(0:33) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

(0:39) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:46) We bring you a new episode every single day on topics like confidence, self-belief, self-worth, self-awareness, relationships, boundaries, consistency, habits, and defining your own unique version of success.

Alan Lazaros

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Kevin Palmieri

(1:08) Welcome to Next Level University. (1:14) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2,531, why are you actually not more consistent? (1:21) I was complaining to Alan yesterday about this.(1:24) I said, dude, I feel sad that I didn't work out today because I had worked a 20-hour day and I'm traveling all over the place and I'm trying to get more sleep. (1:37) And again, I'm not saying the 20-hour day thing like hustle porn. (1:39) I'm saying it was a really busy day and the best course of action for me was probably to take care of myself and skip the gym and get more rest.(1:49) I am very gritty and I usually will do things that are reckless. (1:53) So that's not the reason I'm not more consistent. (1:55) The reason I'm not more consistent, quote unquote, in this example is not because I'm not gritty enough to roll up my sleeves and do it.(2:02) I think that's a common one for people and you're going to get into all of them. (2:05) But there is also, I guess the example I'm using is I at times am too consistent with certain things because I don't use the things we're talking about today to my advantage when it comes to longevity. (2:18) You're really going through it with this whole focusing on longevity thing.(2:22) I am very focused on it, but it's very fucking hard to be focused on it when there's other...

Alan Lazaros

(2:29) We should do an episode at some point on that because you spent your whole life not really super concerned about it.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:35) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(2:35) I didn't know the downsides. (2:37) Fair. (2:38) But now that you're having to shift to that long-term view, it has to change kind of the way you operate.(2:43) It's been quite the existential crisis for you.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:45) It has. (2:46) The other thing too, and if you've listened to us for a long period of time, you'll know that I tend not to like to do episodes about something that I don't feel like I'm decent at. (2:55) I don't know.(2:56) I don't feel like I'm... (2:57) I definitely drink enough water and that type of stuff when it comes to longevity, but I'm definitely not a strength of mine. (3:04) So you have to give me a month and then we'll do an episode on it.

Alan Lazaros

(3:06) Okay. (3:07) Sounds good. (3:08) So the consistency star.(3:12) Five different aspects. (3:14) Everyone sucks at at least one of them. (3:16) Everyone.(3:18) Everyone I coach sucks at at least one of them. (3:21) I'm going to give you the one I suck at, and I'm going to give you the one Kevin definitely sucks at. (3:25) Yeah.(3:26) And here we go. (3:26) So number one is self-belief. (3:28) If you don't have a ton of self-belief, you're not going to have goals and you're not going to have the necessity to be consistent.(3:33) Boom. (3:34) Number one. (3:34) Do you have high self-belief?(3:36) Find the one that you suck at most. (3:38) That's the bottleneck. (3:39) Number two, humility.(3:42) If you aren't humble enough to start small and to not try to be consistent at 500 things, then you're going to fall off. (3:51) All right. (3:52) That's the one that I suck at.(3:54) All right. (3:55) Self-belief was a strength. (3:58) Humility I had to work on.(4:00) All right. (4:00) Number three, sustainability. (4:05) This is whatever new diet program, whatever new weight training program, whatever new exercise program, whatever new podcast, new endeavor, new business, new hobby, piano, whatever it is, whatever new thing that you start to do.(4:22) Do you say I'm going to do it three hours a day and that's not sustainable? (4:27) Or do you start small? (4:29) The example I use for this is four and a half years ago, Emily and I said we want to exercise every day.(4:35) Started with 30 minutes. (4:39) Walking my dog counted. (4:41) Swimming counted.(4:42) Jogging counted. (4:44) Weight training counted. (4:45) Paddleboarding, kayaking, all these things.(4:47) The requirement was it has to be 30 minutes of movement and it can't be, hey, we were grocery shopping earlier and we were walking. (4:54) It had to be intentional with a timer set. (4:55) We've done it every day for four and a half years.(4:58) But if we started with three hours, not a chance. (5:00) So we went from 30 to 35, 35 to 40, 40 to 45. (5:05) We went back down to 35.(5:06) Then we have been doing 60 minutes for like, I think like a year and a half now, which has been challenging. (5:11) All right. (5:12) So sustainability, is it sustainable or do you always try to do too much out of the gate?

Kevin Palmieri

(5:17) That's a big one. (5:18) If you're trying to, rule of thumb, if you're trying to collapse a year's worth of results into a month's worth of effort, it's probably not super sustainable.

Alan Lazaros

(5:27) Yeah. (5:27) And that also means maybe you're not that humble.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:30) I don't know. (5:30) I, we always argue about this. (5:32) I don't know the difference between- Either that or you're naive.(5:34) I think you're naive. (5:35) Yeah. (5:36) If you're not aware of, right.(5:38) If you don't have a very high awareness, it makes sense. (5:40) Of course. (5:41) It's like, I could do it for an hour, 50 times, or I could do it for five hours, 10 times.(5:48) I'm going to do the second one. (5:49) Get the same amount of results. (5:50) Love that for me.(5:51) It's like, well, it doesn't, it doesn't work that way.

Alan Lazaros

(5:53) Doesn't work that way at all.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:54) Unfortunately. (5:54) I wish it did. (5:55) I do.

Alan Lazaros

(5:55) Number four is the one Kevin sucks at, which is adaptability.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:59) It's on my, I'm working on it. (6:01) You know, I'm working on it.

Alan Lazaros

(6:03) For sure. (6:04) Do you want to define that one?

Kevin Palmieri

(6:06) The ability to go off of the plan. (6:09) So if you're, let's use, we'll use fitness as an example. (6:13) If you're traveling and you can't make do with what you have, or it has to be a certain gym, or it has to be a certain type of equipment, or you have to have the gym to yourself or whatever that you forget your headphones and you don't go to the gym.(6:29) That's because you're lacking some adaptability to just get it done. (6:33) Podcasting. (6:33) We, I travel more than Ellen.(6:35) I travel all over the place. (6:36) I have a, a set of things I bring with me to make sure I can be adaptable and podcasts on the road. (6:41) So yeah, if it has to be a certain way every single time, or you're not going to do it that if it has to be sunny in 75 for you to go for your walk outside, you're, if you live in new England, you're going to miss like half the year.(6:53) Right. (6:54) So it's going to, it's going to be really hard to be consistent with that.

Alan Lazaros

(6:57) Yeah. (6:57) The ability to adapt is huge. (7:00) And I want to go through what you think is the biggest bottleneck for most people, but the last one is grit.(7:08) Let's say you are, have self-belief, you have humility, you have a sustainable program and you're adaptable. (7:13) Great. (7:14) Sometimes you just got to get it done.(7:15) And I'll tell this story briefly. (7:16) Emily and I stayed at a place called the Chateau, which we renamed the shit toe years ago. (7:24) Awful, awful place.(7:27) Do not go there. (7:28) It's in New Hampshire. (7:29) The Chateau in New Hampshire, not a great hotel, but anyways we were having a wonderful day.(7:37) Wonderful evening. (7:38) We were watching the prequel hungers game movie and we got, we got takeout. (7:45) We were in bed ready to just have the night.(7:47) Right. (7:49) Wonderful, wonderful experience. (7:51) And we look at the clock, we go, we didn't exercise today.(7:57) And we were like, no, this is in the middle of winter, negative 10 degrees wind chill. (8:03) We had to log our asses out, get in our gear. (8:07) And we walked around this freezing cold parking lot.(8:11) And I'm talking like four and a half years of exercise. (8:14) This was the worst one. (8:16) This was, if we were going to can it, it would be right now.(8:20) If we were going to break the streak, it would be right now. (8:23) We didn't, we did it. (8:24) It was terrible.(8:25) I think it was 45 minutes back then. (8:27) This is years ago. (8:28) And it was again, we're not going to die, but it was terrible.(8:34) It was the longest 45 minutes I maybe have ever had. (8:38) It was terrible. (8:40) So sometimes my point of that whole thing, we just had to grid it out.(8:44) You can't be adaptable. (8:46) You can't, it's not sustainable. (8:48) You don't need humility or self-belief.(8:49) You just got to fucking do the thing that you don't want to do. (8:53) Neither one of us wanted to do that at all, but we refused to break the streak and we refused to be inconsistent. (9:03) It was a dream of ours to exercise every day.(9:06) And we have done it for four and a half years, but it's only because we have had to work on these five things. (9:11) And grit, I think is a strength of mine, definitely a strength of yours, but we all have a bottleneck. (9:18) The reason you're not more consistent, which is the most important skill for success long-term is because of one of these five.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:26) One of my favorite examples of grit, if you, I don't know when it was, but if you go on Evan Carmichael's YouTube channel and you find the right time, he was doing content in a neck brace because he had fell, broke his neck and broke his neck. (9:39) And he just like kept just doing stuff that he was doing.

Alan Lazaros

(9:42) He had a tour. (9:44) He was on the road doing a tour. (9:45) He just kept doing it.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:46) Just kept doing it. (9:47) He had the wall holding up his neck. (9:50) Like that, that you don't, you don't become Evan Carmichael without that.(9:55) Again, many of you might not know who he is, but he's, he's very successful in the YouTube space. (10:00) He's a very successful business owner and he's very successful. (10:03) He is statistically one of the successful, the most successful people there is, especially in our space.(10:07) Right. (10:07) So the most, I think the one.

Alan Lazaros

(10:12) Would you say he's a one in a thousand level of success?

Kevin Palmieri

(10:15) You would know the numbers better than I for sure.

Alan Lazaros

(10:17) For sure. (10:18) One in a hundred top one percent for sure. (10:20) And remember, it started from scratch.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:22) Definitely, definitely top one in a thousand, right? (10:23) Gotta be.

Alan Lazaros

(10:24) Yeah, for sure. (10:25) Maybe one in 10,000, you know, but he's 1% of 1% successful in his space for sure.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:31) What do you, you've coached way more people than I have. (10:33) What do you think the number one is?

Alan Lazaros

(10:37) Grit, dude.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:39) You think grit?

Alan Lazaros

(10:39) But I'll, damn it. (10:42) I do. (10:43) I think most people are fucking soft.(10:46) I do. (10:50) Is that because you're so high in it though? (10:53) I don't know, man.(10:54) Maybe. (10:55) It's all relative, right? (10:56) Yeah, probably.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:57) You're very greedy. (10:59) You're more greedy than I am for sure. (11:01) I don't know.(11:02) You gotta be the most greedy person I've ever met.

Alan Lazaros

(11:04) I appreciate it.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:05) I think. (11:06) You just didn't write a book on it, so nobody knows.

Alan Lazaros

(11:09) Angela Duckworth, you think she's gritty? (11:11) I don't know about grit. (11:13) Yeah, I don't either.(11:13) I was joking. (11:14) But I think grit is high for you too.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:18) Very high.

Alan Lazaros

(11:18) We would not get along otherwise, dude.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:20) No, definitely not. (11:21) I thought maybe, I don't know. (11:22) I thought maybe Angela Duckworth was like a, you know, had the world record for walking on her hands for the longest amount of time.

Alan Lazaros

(11:27) No, no, no. (11:27) She wrote the book Grit. (11:28) That I know.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:29) Yeah, I know that.

Alan Lazaros

(11:30) Oh, okay.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:30) I just don't know what her background is outside of that.

Alan Lazaros

(11:33) Ah, man. (11:34) What do you think? (11:35) I think it's grit.(11:36) I think people lack grit, dude. (11:38) More now than ever. (11:39) Self-belief.(11:40) I doubt our grandparents lacked grit. (11:42) You know what I mean? (11:43) I think the 21st century just makes you soft.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:46) But what they might have had in grit, I'm sure they didn't have somewhere else. (11:50) Yeah, of course. (11:51) I think it's self-belief.(11:52) I'll always think it's self-belief. (11:55) Here's why. (11:56) Because if you have very low self-belief, one— You're not going to develop grit.(12:00) You're not going to develop any of these.

Alan Lazaros

(12:01) Yeah, that's a great point.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:02) You're not going to develop any of these.

Alan Lazaros

(12:04) And you almost won't even set a goal. (12:07) But if you don't have grit, you're going to have low self-belief because you can't do much.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:10) Oh, it's the chicken or the egg, right?

Alan Lazaros

(12:12) I want to— Yeah, of course. (12:12) I want to share this, you and I in group coaching.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:15) Also, real quick. (12:17) Is it the chicken or the egg? (12:20) You know, you've had multiple studies on this, right?(12:23) Like, what do you think? (12:25) For what? (12:25) Self-belief or grit?(12:27) No, no. (12:27) Like, literally. (12:28) What came first?(12:29) The chicken or the egg?

Alan Lazaros

(12:35) No. (12:35) No. (12:40) 13.8 million years ago was the Big Bang.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:45) Yes.

Alan Lazaros

(12:45) And there was an egg. (12:47) I'm joking. (12:48) No, but the first part's right.(12:50) Yeah, we're not going to do this. (12:51) What we're going to do is— I just didn't know.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:53) Well, it is valuable. (12:54) I just didn't know if you had an answer, that's all. (12:56) I was just curious.(12:56) No, I don't. (12:56) I do have theories regarding— Of course I think about all these things. (13:01) Like, I need to, you know, what I mean?

Alan Lazaros

(13:02) Our Universe, the Netflix series from 2022 you would enjoy.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:05) Okay.

Alan Lazaros

(13:06) It's called Our Universe and it's awesome. (13:09) Done. (13:09) Yeah.(13:09) You'll love it. (13:10) It's existential as hell. (13:11) Okay.(13:12) So, anyways, if you don't— The story I was going to tell. (13:17) Group coaching. (13:18) Three weeks ago, I said— And I said this on the podcast, too, but I need to say it again.(13:22) I think it's a breakthrough. (13:24) All of you are podcasters and you're here because you want to level up yourself, level up your podcast, level up your business. (13:29) You want to be more successful.(13:31) Great. (13:32) You trust us to guide you, and I'm grateful. (13:34) And the reason why is because we've led by example.(13:35) We have bootstrapped and built a company that has grossed over $2 million in the last nine years. (13:41) Okay? (13:41) So, we are successful.(13:43) Not the most successful on Earth, but we're very successful. (13:45) Okay, great. (13:46) Now, how did we do that?(13:49) Now, picture how much you believe in us. (13:51) Zero to 10 right now. (13:53) All right.(13:53) Some of them, hopefully, were thinking nine, 10, whatever. (13:56) All right. (13:56) Now, I want you to imagine Kevin and I came to you and said, how much do you believe in us?(14:00) And you said, nine, 10. (14:02) Nine or 10. (14:04) And we said, okay, but one caveat.(14:06) How much do you believe in us after I tell you this? (14:08) Kevin and I are only willing to work one hour a day each for the rest of our life. (14:13) The self-belief should plummet.(14:16) Not self-belief. (14:16) The belief in us should plummet. (14:18) Can you imagine?(14:20) I want to build a multimillion-dollar company from scratch with no investors, no seed money, no venture capital, in a podcasting space, and I want to help people with self-improvement, personal growth, and personal development so they can be more successful in health, wealth, and love. (14:37) But I only want to work one hour a day max. (14:40) Everything was great up until that last moment.(14:42) I believe it, though. (14:43) Of course. (14:44) Dude, it's the unwritten rule that nobody talks about.(14:51) I have someone I coach who's been in the finance industry for 41 years. (14:57) He's very successful. (14:59) Multimillionaire level successful.(15:01) Very successful. (15:02) But he's been in the finance space for 41 years. (15:07) That's more than you and I have been alive.(15:10) That's correct, yeah. (15:11) And he's doing all this great stuff. (15:12) It's awesome.(15:13) Selling his company, mergers and acquisitions, great. (15:15) Coaches team, love it. (15:17) If you take away work ethic, almost nothing is possible.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:25) This is what jumped to my mind. (15:29) I'll tell you after. (15:29) What do you think the star is missing?(15:31) What is number six that's not on there? (15:33) Because there's a million things, right? (15:34) It's not just these five.(15:36) What's number six? (15:37) Yeah, I think these are the five most important. (15:39) I have one that I think might...(15:42) It's not, it's not, but it's close. (15:44) I think it would be a close six.

Alan Lazaros

(15:52) Yeah, it would be your peers.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:54) Oh, that's an interesting one.

Alan Lazaros

(15:55) Yeah, it would be your peers. (15:58) If you have a bunch of peers who are inconsistent, you're going to be inconsistent.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:01) Mine was going to be emotional regulation.

Alan Lazaros

(16:03) Yeah, that's a good one.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:05) Because when you start, it's so fun. (16:07) It's awesome. (16:08) You get all the good feelings in the beginning and then, hypothetically speaking, I don't know if this happened or not.(16:13) I don't know. (16:14) It's up to you. (16:15) When you start researching how to buy and sell and flip cell phone cases from China.(16:21) What year was this? (16:22) Oh boy, 2009?

Alan Lazaros

(16:27) No, no, no, no, no, no. (16:29) 2010?

Kevin Palmieri

(16:29) Probably 2012.

Alan Lazaros

(16:32) I had a...

Kevin Palmieri

(16:33) Because the iPhone was really taken off. (16:35) Dude, it was... (16:36) It was the time.(16:36) Guaranteed Skrilla. (16:39) Guaranteed Skrilla from everything I read. (16:41) I fell victim to that for sure.(16:43) It was the... (16:45) Maybe it wasn't emotional regulation. (16:49) It was like skin in the game.(16:52) You're not going to be consistent for something that doesn't actually fucking matter to you. (16:55) There has to be the right amount of necessity. (16:59) There has to be...

Alan Lazaros

(17:00) Maybe one of these should be the cause. (17:01) How much do you care about the cause? (17:03) We're going to do an episode on that.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:04) That's something because you shouldn't be consistent to things that you don't care about. (17:09) Yeah, agreed. (17:11) So that furthers the question.(17:14) Okay, well, how do I care about something that I don't currently care about that would be good for me to care about? (17:18) That's a different question, right? (17:20) Can you force yourself to care about something you don't?(17:25) Yeah, I just don't think it'll ever be natural to you. (17:28) I think you need constant... (17:31) Tara and I have this conversation all the time.(17:32) It is not natural for me to want to go... (17:36) It's not natural for me to wish people happy birthday. (17:38) Yeah, me neither.(17:39) Because for me, I don't care. (17:41) Yeah. (17:42) Right?(17:42) I don't care. (17:43) I appreciate it. (17:44) Awesome.(17:44) Thank you. (17:45) But I'm not thinking about that. (17:46) You've got other shit to do.(17:47) You don't even worry about when my fucking birthday is. (17:49) It's not natural for me to do that. (17:51) I want to be a person that makes people feel cared for.(17:57) Right? (17:57) That is of importance to me. (18:00) But that is not a natural piece of that for me.(18:02) It's something I'm working on. (18:03) But I don't know if it'll ever be my natural... (18:06) It'll never unconsciously happen.

Alan Lazaros

(18:08) Yeah. (18:08) And if I was coaching Kev right now, I'd say, do not make a career on that. (18:12) Well, no, definitely not.(18:13) You do not want to build your career on something that is very unnatural.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:18) But to the point, I think you can get better at it. (18:20) I just don't know.

Alan Lazaros

(18:21) Yeah. (18:21) There are certain things...

Kevin Palmieri

(18:22) You're never going to be the best at that. (18:24) Yeah. (18:24) There are certain things that are like...(18:28) When we had Next Level Live at my house, it was me, Alan and Amy. (18:34) Taryn was here, but she wasn't participating. (18:36) And we were ordering food.(18:37) One of the things was, all right, Amy, what are you... (18:40) This is unconscious for me. (18:41) What are you doing with your diet right now that I want to make sure I can help you fit in based on what we order?(18:46) Because we were doing the 10-pound and 10-week challenge at that point. (18:49) Now I had to wait to eat. (18:50) Yeah, it was devastating.(18:51) I did not. (18:52) I... (18:53) Poke it.

Alan Lazaros

(18:53) Oh, no.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:54) I think I had already done it. (18:56) I already...

Alan Lazaros

(18:56) Yeah, you already ate gold.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:57) So I went all in. (18:58) But unconsciously, I'm always thinking about that. (19:01) Same.(19:01) Right? (19:01) That's an example.

Alan Lazaros

(19:03) So for the listeners, self-belief, humility, sustainability, adaptability, and grit, they all feed each other. (19:10) And I think the peers thing is really important too. (19:12) If you're around a bunch of inconsistent people, that's gonna rub off on you.(19:18) Emilia and I do this together. (19:21) That makes it so much easier. (19:24) If I forget, that was the one time in four and a half years where we both forgot and almost went to bed without exercising.(19:31) That hasn't happened since. (19:33) It's only happened once in four and a half years.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:35) Imagine waking up and being like, oh, no. (19:37) I know. (19:38) We broke the streak.

Alan Lazaros

(19:39) Dude, that would have been so bad.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:40) Not even on purpose. (19:41) I just forgot.

Alan Lazaros

(19:43) I'm actually really grateful we didn't do that. (19:46) We haven't done that.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:47) But anyway, so real quick, real quick, just as an example. (19:49) I was in bed a couple of months ago, and Tara and I were getting ready for bed. (19:54) And I went, oh, shit.(19:56) And she said, what's wrong? (19:57) And I said, I forgot to post in next level fitness calendar group.

Alan Lazaros

(20:00) Yeah, you promised the listeners.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:01) I almost missed. (20:02) I went down and did it. (20:04) And I came upstairs and I'm like, I'm sorry if I woke you up.(20:05) And she's like, no, it's awesome. (20:06) I'm super glad you did that. (20:08) But like, dude, I have nightmares about that.(20:13) I'm not kidding. (20:14) I literally have times where I'll wake up and be like, oh, my God, I fucking forgot. (20:18) I forgot.

Alan Lazaros

(20:19) Well, if you used your goddamn peak performance tracker, this wouldn't happen.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:23) It's here somewhere.

Alan Lazaros

(20:24) I know it is. (20:26) But we promised all our listeners at the beginning of the year that we'd be in there every day this year. (20:30) I haven't missed.(20:31) Same. (20:32) Yeah. (20:33) And hey, anyone in the group, you can go check every day.(20:36) Every day.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:37) Good luck.

Alan Lazaros

(20:37) Assuming you've been in there every day this year. (20:39) Okay. (20:40) Since the beginning of the year.(20:42) So which one's your bottleneck? (20:43) Which one needs work? (20:44) For me, the humility one.(20:45) I will, I told Kev this, if I'm not humble in the gym, I will get injured. (20:51) I need to be careful because I'll, you know, it's okay. (20:54) Earlier today, I was doing standing rows and I was like, I think I'm going to push it.(21:00) And then I did a set and my lower back was like right there. (21:04) And I was like, all right, all right. (21:09) You know, I guess, you know, I'll only do 25 instead of throwing another plate on here.(21:13) But I want to push it always. (21:16) But of course that's grit. (21:18) And so I don't struggle with grit.(21:20) I struggle with humility. (21:21) So because if I get injured, I can't be consistent, right? (21:23) So it's important.(21:24) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:25) You can't, well, that's the thing. (21:26) You can be consistent because you're adaptable.

Alan Lazaros

(21:30) I still would go, but it wouldn't be as good. (21:32) It wouldn't be as good.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:34) That's the other thing too, is like, one of the things you have to understand about consistency is it's not always going to be the best. (21:39) Yeah, definitely not. (21:40) It's not this.(21:41) I had a really good workout today, but lately my workouts have been garbage. (21:46) Terrible. (21:46) Like not good.(21:48) Very unenjoyable. (21:49) And still, still doing it. (21:53) Still out here doing a check in the box.(21:55) All right. (21:56) We didn't talk about why consistency matters, man. (21:58) I feel like we do in every episode, but we can talk about it.(22:01) I mean, I know we got to go. (22:02) Best example in the world. (22:03) This is the best example.(22:04) I've used this hundreds of times on podcasts. (22:06) I haven't said this in so long. (22:08) I don't even know if I know how to say it anymore.(22:09) Okay, cool. (22:11) Alan comes up to me and says, hey, brother, I will give you $1 million in United States currency. (22:18) If this time next year, 365 days from today, you can do the full splits.(22:24) Awesome. (22:24) Love it. (22:25) You're out there.(22:26) You're thinking right now, how would you accomplish that? (22:29) If I only practice the splits once a week.

Alan Lazaros

(22:33) Not a chance.

Kevin Palmieri

(22:34) 52 times. (22:35) 52 times. (22:36) Probably that ain't it.(22:37) Can't do it. (22:38) That ain't it. (22:39) If I did it once a month, that's only 12 times.(22:43) Nothing. (22:43) I probably will not get at all noticeably better. (22:46) Not noticeably better at all.(22:48) If you did it like once a quarter, you do it four times. (22:50) The highest probability and the highest likelihood of you actually accomplishing it is just doing it every day. (22:57) And the things that we talked about, you do it 365.

Alan Lazaros

(23:01) Yeah, I'm already probably pretty close. (23:03) You probably have to do a couple of times a day though. (23:06) You know, like once in the morning, once in the afternoon, once in the evening.

Kevin Palmieri

(23:08) Yeah, I don't know what the protocol is, but like back in the day. (23:11) I'll give you a million and five. (23:13) I'm joking.(23:14) Done. (23:15) No, no, I'm joking. (23:16) Done.

Alan Lazaros

(23:17) It's a joke.

Kevin Palmieri

(23:18) You heard it here. (23:20) It's a joke. (23:21) That's why, because it literally increases the probability of you accomplishing something.(23:27) Okay, why don't you drink and drive every day for the rest of your life? (23:32) Because eventually something bad is going to happen.

Alan Lazaros

(23:34) Yeah, the probability of an accident is very high.

Kevin Palmieri

(23:36) I'm not, you should never do it. (23:38) I'm not, you should never, ever, ever do it. (23:39) It's very bad, but just as an example.(23:41) Or if I fly every day for the rest of my life, I am more likely to get into a plane crash than somebody who doesn't fly because I'm consistently on planes more now that I'm on planes. (23:53) I like flying now. (23:54) So what's your point?(23:57) Consistency is the equalizer. (23:59) If you do something more than other people, you most likely will be better at it as long as you're getting better. (24:05) And without consistency, almost nothing is possible.(24:07) You're not going to accomplish your goals. (24:09) If, if you don't podcast as much as we do, you're most likely not going to get to the same place we do, right?

Alan Lazaros

(24:16) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:16) That, that's why it's so important.

Alan Lazaros

(24:18) It's an apple a day, not seven on Sunday.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:24) It's fair.

Alan Lazaros

(24:26) We haven't said that in years either. (24:28) That's a throwback right there. (24:30) Yeah.(24:30) Figure out that's not struggle with self-belief. (24:32) Do you struggle with humility, sustainability, adaptability, or grit? (24:35) And whichever one's the bottleneck work on that.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:39) Get out there.

Alan Lazaros

(24:39) That's what we did in group coaching. (24:41) We targeted the constraint and then we have everybody working on it this week.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:46) Perfect. (24:46) Perfect. (24:47) Also, I don't say the, uh, it's an apple a day, not seven apples on Sunday.(24:52) Cause that's not my saying. (24:52) That's somebody else's saying.

Alan Lazaros

(24:54) I think it's Jim Rohn.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:55) Oh, maybe, I don't know. (24:57) We had a mentor who said it one time. (24:59) So I, but I think it's Jim Rohn originally, but again, who knows?

Alan Lazaros

(25:03) Yeah. (25:03) He could have got it from Zig Ziglar or Augmandino or Brian Tracy.

Kevin Palmieri

(25:08) I think everything has probably been said in the order that somebody else is saying it. (25:11) All right, cool. (25:12) If you're out there and one of the things you want to focus on is being more consistent when it comes to fitness, one of the things on there that Alan mentioned, well, it's not on there, but it should be is your peer group.(25:24) What your peer group does. (25:25) It helps you stay accountable to certain behaviors. (25:28) That is all the next level fitness accountability group is designed for to help you be more consistent in fitness.(25:34) Alan and I are in there every single day. (25:36) We've committed to being in there every single day, but there's a bunch of other people too. (25:39) Amy's in there every day.(25:40) Bianca's in there every day. (25:41) There's a bunch of people in there every day. (25:42) Nina's in there every day.(25:43) Shout out to all the amazing people. (25:45) Reach out to Alan or I will let you.

Alan Lazaros

(25:48) We have a book club every Saturday at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. (25:52) The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle. (25:54) We've been doing this for, we've read 20.(25:56) This is our 27th book. (25:58) If you want to get around people who are all committed to getting better, this is the place. (26:02) It's private.(26:03) It's behind the scenes. (26:04) It's a close-knit group of people. (26:05) You don't have to have read the chapter.(26:08) You just need to be prepared for harsh feedback. (26:12) If you don't want to get better, do not come. (26:14) If you want to get better, this is it.(26:17) It's good stuff. (26:19) DM me on my Instagram to come to book club. (26:24) And we will put the registration link in the show notes as well.(26:27) We just changed the registration link, so we'll put it in there. (26:30) I'll send it to the team.

Kevin Palmieri

(26:31) All right. (26:32) As always, I love you. (26:33) Appreciate you.(26:33) Grateful for each and every one of you. (26:34) If you are as committed as you say you are to getting to the next level, make sure you tune in tomorrow because we'll be here every single day, consistently, to help you get there. (26:41) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential.(26:44) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. (26:48) We love connecting with the Next Level family.

Alan Lazaros

(26:51) We mean it when we say family. (26:53) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (26:56) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.

Kevin Palmieri

(27:00) Thank you again, and we will talk to you tomorrow.