It’s time, to be honest with yourself.

You aren’t achieving the goals you’ve set for yourself because you don’t have the consistency to see the results you want.

Add in that social media hand feeds you all this bullshit about how everything will be okay and that you’re doing just fine, but are you really?

Because there is no one, and I mean no one, in this world coming to save you.

No one is going to say, “Oh, it’s okay, here is 2 million dollars, a lovely life, and all of your problems solved.”

It’s never going to happen.

The only way you’re going to achieve anything in life is if you can obtain the skill of consistency and apply it to the goals you have set to achieve.

This means finding something you want to accomplish and showing up every day, putting in the time and effort needed to let the results show.

And I get it; it sucks.

Trying to commit to one large goal over a long period of time when we live in a short attention span society feels impossible, but it’s not.

You must realize that showing up daily and giving it your all is the only way to change your situation.

And no, I’m not talking about this hustle culture bull shit: "You have to work 16 hours a day, sleep for 3, and put your blood, sweat, and tears into it.”

You must apply yourself to a few tasks that move you toward your goals.

It took me 9 months of aimlessly trying a bunch of different businesses to realize this, and my hope is today, you can learn from my 9 months of mistakes and propel yourself towards these “big goals” that you can make a reality with the help of my two senses.

The thing about success is that it’s such a broad topic, and everyone’s version of success is different.

For one person, it might be making it to the NFL, but to another, it could be being a fantastic mother.

No matter what version of success you have, there’s only one “key” to this success: consistency.

By now, you’ve heard it everywhere. “All you have to do is be consistent” “Consistency is key.”

Here’s something that’ll piss you off; they’re right.

Look at Kobe Bryant, Elon Musk, Alex Hormozi, or any other highly successful individual you know, and look at one of the few, if not only, common denominators.

Their consistency.

These people show up every day, rain, shine, happy, sad, it doesn’t matter, they showed up, and guess what? Look at them now.

Highly successful people who are top of their class.

Most people know you must be consistent to see results, but they aren’t.

Why is that?

My guess.

They aren’t willing to endure the suck long enough to reach the other side.

They aren’t willing to commit to doing the few things they need to do every day to see their success.

And look what happens.

They end up living lives they hate.

They never see the world, work the job they’ve always wanted, or get the time to do almost anything they want.

They live to build someone else's success, not their own.

It sucks to see.

I’ve caught myself at times doing the same thing, and I don’t think I’m saying being consistent is easy.

It f*cking sucks sometimes, but what’s the alternative?

Living a mediocre life doing a 9-5 job, I hate every day.

No, thank you.

Enough of all the negative talk; here’s the good thing.

Success can be achieved with time, effort, consistency, and working effectively, no matter what phase of life you’re in, but you have to learn how to do so and be willing to.

I’m here to help with that, but I want you to keep one thing in mind.

Simplicity is a must.

Learning, building, and being consistent are simple but challenging factors leading to success.

If you can keep things as simple as possible, it will be a stress reliever and help with the consistency I’m talking about.

Keeping things simple means avoiding doing many things at once and instead committing to a few tasks you can do every day.

That’s it.

Simple, I know, but I want you to start changing your perspective on how you perceive achieving success.

I set the goal of my success in the form of starting a business.

This journey started last August; honestly, it hasn’t been easy.

I graduated high school with business in mind, but I needed direction on what to do or how to start until I came across the social media marketing agency model one day.

I bought a course, tried it out, and quickly got wrapped up in the “get rich quick” mindset.

This mindset got me nowhere until about two months ago; I came across a complete mindset shift and my true passion at once.

I found my passion in writing and realized if business is what I want to do, I need to play the long game.

I stopped working in the make $10,000 per month in 90 days mindset and instead in creating a business centered around what I love while providing the most value possible attitude.

And since this realization, I’ve made more progress in the last two months than in the first 9.

I’ve gained clarity, lost the need for motivation, picked up the creative mindset I lost throughout the years, and have been building it ever since.

I now keep my overarching goal of quitting my job to take my writing-based business full time, and I consistently do the 2-3 tasks I need to do each day to work towards that.

I tell you this story not for sympathy but to show you that finding the goal to pursue and building consistency/ clarity can take time, but if you’re willing to dedicate your time towards it, you will find it.

I’ve found building simple systems throughout all areas of my life to help keep me consistent, and I’ve become my own boss to hold me accountable.

Learning my passion and big goal and changing how I carry myself has led me to massive growth, and you can see the same.

Treat your life as an artist creating a sculptor to build your consistency.

You become the artist, the sculptor becomes your future, and each day you take a crack at making a beautiful masterpiece with consistent action.

As you put in the time and effort, the sculptor will start to take shape.

Your inputs of energy will start to produce outputs of a better life.

And when this starts to happen, the consistency becomes more natural, and you have, at that point, successfully acquired the skill of consistency.

If you're asking yourself, “Why is he making such a big deal of being consistent? I don’t get it.”

The simple answer is to look at your past results. The easiest way to tell what has worked and failed is by looking at your consistent efforts.

If you have a track record of not finishing things and quitting early, you’ve already answered why consistency is so important.

It may sound dramatic to say consistency is the key to it all, but if you think about anything built in life, it took consistent efforts over a long period of time.

Athletes, actors, buildings, businesses, being good at a sport or hobby, getting a six-pack- the “greats” in our world were formed off of consistency.

Ask yourself, “What would happen if you started (whatever you are interested in starting) and worked on it every day for two years?”

Hell, even in a year or six months, where would you be?

I’d say you probably would have made a hell of a lot of progress and be much farther than you even think.

I put such importance on consistency because I’ve lacked it so much in my life, and as I reflect, I realize how many things I could have done and accomplished by now if I had just stuck to it.

And because I care about you.

I want you to get to do what you want, and I want you to gain freedom and get to do the things you’ve always wanted to do.

I want you to see those “dreams” you think can never be done can be done if you just stick with it.

If you can commit to a goal long enough, you will experience all these great things in life.

Plus, what do you have to lose?

In reality, we place these unrealistic circumstances about what could go wrong if we just try this thing when 98% of the time, they don’t happen.

So to help you take the leap, set the goal, apply yourself to achieving it, and show up every day.

I’ve created a simple system to help you reach your success and get you started toward seeing those “dreams” turn into reality.

Before we go into building consistency and achieving these big goals, you must refrain from thinking of these big goals.

While it sounds counterintuitive, leaving this big goal in mind can cause stress.

These big goals are big, so they take time and progress to reach.

The best thing you can do is break this big goal down into micro-manageable goals that you can work towards with more clarity.

An example would be made to make $1 million when you’re broke. You don’t know how to, so instead, focus on how you can make $1,000 or even start small and say how can I make $1?

If you work with the big goal in mind, you will lose track of what needs to be done, get scatterbrained, and be stressed out. Eventually, this will lead to you giving up.

Start with a small goal, then expand as you reach new heights. This way, you can keep hitting progress bars and moving forward.

Another reason is working with the big goal in mind; when you look at what you’ve done, you will feel like you’ve done nothing when in reality, you’ve made tremendous progress.

Be hard on yourself, but remember to care for your mental health and not get caught up in these big goals.

Break them down so you can don’t burn yourself out.

The framework provided below is to help kickstart you towards achieving a big goal in you’re life that you’ve always labeled as impossible and to build the skill of consistency.

That said, this is not a code of law. Use this as an outline and fill it in with whatever works for you.

The most effective way to build consistency is by pairing it with a goal.

What is something you’ve always wanted to accomplish that you can do every day to learn how to be consistent?

This goal can be whatever you want it to be. Just make sure it is significant but attainable.

Use this goal as the vessel for consistency because setting a goal gives you a reason to be consistent.

Setting this goal forces you to commit to achieving something.

Research starts in two ways.

If you don’t know what goal to set, research what goals you can select to bounce ideas around.

Then start deep diving into how to achieve this goal.

Use resources like Youtube and Google to discover how others have achieved this goal.

That way, you can understand how you might do the same.

Once you have established the goal you want to achieve and how to start working towards it, we can begin crafting a plan.

You will never know every little detail in achieving your goal, but this plan aims to help you gain a timeline about how you think you will achieve it.

Let me emphasize a SIMPLE plan, not a 6-page in-depth analysis.

Create a rough draft and call it good. The plan will bring you clarity on where to start, not the answer to every part of the journey.

Using the plan you’ve created, it’s time to attack.

Here is where you enter a new season of life: focus.

Focus on-

This new season of life calls for sacrifice. You have to learn to be consistent by doing the work no matter what.

Your friends asked to hang out? Do work first. Does your girlfriend want to watch Netflix? Do work first. Your coworkers invited you to dinner? It doesn’t matter; you’ve got work to do.

It sounds harsh, but if you want to acquire this challenging skill and achieve your goals, you must be willing to give up some of life’s experiences and put in the work instead.

To play into the simplistic model of things, do work daily with a simple and effective tip I’ve implemented.

Find the 3 lever moving tasks you can do daily to move you forward.

What are the most important things you need to have done each day?

Identify what they are and do them relentlessly.

For my writing/ personal brand, it calls for networking, newsletter writing, and content creation. For you, it could be prospecting potential clients, taking a 45-minute walk, building something, or messaging 25 people.

Whatever it may be, find them and do them.

Keep it simple.

If you’re accepting the challenge of finding a goal and aiming to achieve it consistently, first off, congratulate yourself you’ve made a considerable jump.

Secondly, you must implement skill and knowledge development daily to play into this new lifestyle.

This calls for setting aside 30 minutes to an hour daily for both.

It may not sound important but look at it this way.

You could lose everything you have—your house, money, car, job, etc. But you know what you can never lose?

The skills and knowledge you have.

This means increasing both is vital.

Each day build your skills through practical application. Find the skills that can help you achieve your goals and learn how to implement them into your daily life. Knowledge comes through reading books, listening to podcasts and lectures, finding a mentor, and many more.

Learn to do both; over a year or two, you will have many weapons in your arsenal.

Another reason this is so important? You can use these skills and knowledge to fast-track your progress to your goal and make yourself more valuable, resulting in endless opportunities.

As you progress towards your goal, find time to reflect and reiterate.

These are the times you can reflect on:

And reiteration is like building a habit. Here you:

Reflection and reiteration are where you make the things working stick and remove what isn’t.

This is crucial to moving forward because it allows you to build a solid foundation.

Your foundation comprises your mind, health, relationships, habits, consistency building, and growth as a whole.

Use these periods to solidify your future and keep you on track.

By this time, you should be getting close to reaching your goal.

When this time arises, it is your responsibility to keep building.

Accomplish a goal, find another, and keep building a better life for yourself.

Don’t just commit once and then return to the same lifestyle that was getting you nowhere.

Becoming a builder means building every aspect of your life stronger and living a life of fulfillment by consistently creating goals and accomplishing them.

I hope you can use this framework to get started on accomplishing a goal and building a better life for yourself.

If you’re not where you want to be, adapt to the consistent goal-accomplishment lifestyle.

Set a goal, create a plan, do the research, attack the goal every day, learn, grow, and repeat for life.

Using this system, you can start to live the life you want. Don’t just hope your life improves; take action and responsibility by striving to improve your life.

Set goals and be consistent in accomplishing them. Do this for life; I promise it will pay you massive dividends.

If there's one thing for you to take away from this week's edition, it’s that simplicity and consistency are key.

Use these to create your life and implement goals to guide you to a higher status of living.

Have a great rest of your day.

Remember, create your story, or it will be given to you.

-Isaiah