#1512 - Consistent 70% Days Are Better Than Spotty 100% Days

For episode number 1512 , consistent 70% days are better than spotty 100% days . It says who kev . Lory harder said it and you said she might have said consistent 60% . I don't remember .

I would trust your memory far more than mine , but when we had lory harder on for episode 34 , I remember she said this and this is something I have thought of Fairly consistently For the last however many years it's been since then .

One I Don't know how many 100% days I've ever strung together . I'm sure I had Some really , really , really , really good days , but by definition , I don't know if there really is 100% day , because we could do another episode after this if we had to . We're not going to because we don't have to . So 100% is kind of subjective .

That's part one and this is the takeaway . My early next level nugget , early early , my super early next level nugget for this episode if you have a 70% day today , that 70% might be Two times what your 100% days used to be that is really the the season of understanding and awareness that I feel that I'm in Today . It's so it's Saturday .

Recording this on Saturday I got up at five and I've been hammering it's 420 as of the recording of this and I have worked straight through pretty much . I'm it's been awesome , very productive , very productive . I Got more today .

I got more done today than I used to in a week , for sure , even though and this is the challenging part a lot of it's not measurable . A lot of it's not gonna show up on a piece of paper , it's not gonna show up on a spreadsheet , it's not gonna show up as a dollar amount , it's not gonna be recognizable tomorrow .

So that's another important thing to understand that sometimes the consistency that you're practicing remains to be seen , because the results are days , months , weeks and years behind . But the effort you're putting in it might be way more productive than it's ever been . And that is my early next level nugget .

And if you're a new listener now , you know that I've been coaching now for five or six years I forget which probably in between there five and six years and I track habits . I always have in my coaching . I needed some sort of feedback loop . I needed to know that my clients were headed somewhere great , and habits the best way to do that .

And so , now that I've had some clients and team members for many , many years , what really

is cool is that we end up with this graph in Google Sheets that looks like a staircase , and this is kind of how it works . So I'm going to use Brandon as an example , showed it to Brandon , and Brandon first came on the team in December of 2020 . He had never tracked habits before ,

and so we started him with let's just hypothetically I don't know the exact numbers , I'm not in the spreadsheets right now but let's say nine habits . Okay , we started him off with nine habits and let's say he's getting 60% , 70% , 75% , 78% , 72% , 78% .

He's doing better , little worse , little better , little worse , little better , little worse , little better , little worse . But the trend line is up . So the slope of the trend line is up . In other words , he's doing his new worse is better than his old best , if that makes sense .

But then what happens is every other week we jump on the phone coaching and I say , okay , I want to get rid of one , I want to change one , I want to add one . So then you're still at nine habits .

But then over time we do , we add more than we get rid of , because eventually he starts getting to like near a hundred percent , and at one point I remember he was like 96% , 97% , 98% , because I aggregate this every every other week .

And once someone starts being in the high nineties for a really long time , I get frustrated and it's like listen , we got to up the ante , we got to . You can't squat the same way and expect to get stronger . You can't lift the same way and expect to get stronger . So let's , let's up the ante . What else ? What else can we do ? What else can we do ?

What else can we do ? It can be very exhausting , but the point is growth and if your system is easy , then it's time to up the ante .

But when we up the ante , what we do is we add a couple new columns , add a couple new habits and then redo it so that those all count as zeros , so that ultimately and I remember in the beginning of coaching people would be like , well , why do I get all zeros ? Those are new habits that shouldn't count . And I say trust me you know , why ?

Because a year from now , when you look back , you're going to see a staircase graph of your . I want the graph to show what Kevin had originally opened this episode with , which is Brandon's old 80% is actually only 40% of his new run rate and it , I swear to you , I could show a screenshot of this . A lot of my clients have this staircase going .

I do too . I'm not included because what we do is we hide . We hide everything prior to the quarter that we're on , because we try to do 90 day increments , just like in group coaching . And when you unhide it , all of a sudden you see this whole graph and you go back from 2020 , all the way to 2023 tail end of 2023 . And it's like holy crap .

Look at this staircase . Look at where you started and your old , let's say , you got a 80% . That 80% is actually only 30% of your system now , and so it .

It looks like a staircase , and I think that's a great analogy because His new , worst , least productive day ever is literally mathematically better than his old , best day , and that is such a cool analogy for how much we can grow .

Just looking at the engagement , it was drastically different in 2017-2000 . Which is weird . It was weird to look back on . Instagram was the place . It was the place back then . But , yeah , it just really highlighted the fact that I definitely do more in a day than I used to in a week , and I'm certain of 100% , just because that's what's necessary now .

It's not necessarily what I want to do . It's not that I chose to put my . I did , I did choose to put myself in that position , but that's just what's necessary . Well , your goals require it . Yeah , and as you get clear on the goals , you get clear on the approach to accomplish the goals . That's the other thing . Back then , I didn't really know .

I didn't really know what it was going to take . Transparently , there wasn't a lot going on back then . There wasn't . I didn't have a wife and a household and cats and a business , and we didn't have a team . There's a lot of things going differently , but this is the point I want to connect . How do I say it ?

You might be doing 70% in one arena and you might be doing 10% in another arena and you might be doing 50% in another arena . You have to understand how the arenas are stacking up .

So , as you know the trials of Kevin's jujitsu journey , I want to go to jujitsu but I'm thinking to myself well , how do I figure out how to lift and do jujitsu at the same time ? I have to figure this out now . It has to be right this second . I cannot go another day without knowing how to , what my schedule is going to be like .

And in reality the jujitsu is 80% right now and me going to the gym . I'm still doing that four times a week . That's still like 60% of what it used to be . So if you add the 80% and the 60% up , that's more than 100% . If I was just doing 50 , 50 . I know the numbers might not make sense . This is how I think of it in my brain .

So for you , if you're out there , it might not seem like you're doing enough in one arena

and maybe you're not . That's always a possibility but are you checking in with the other other arenas too , to figure out how much you're actually doing ? That's really my , my main , my second main point I talk to clients about that all the time . Well , we have this ready and we're ready for clients and we're ready for this .

And I said , well , you're not posting on social media , so you might be doing more than you've ever done when it comes to this thing , but you're doing less than you've ever done when it comes to this thing . They're not going to even out . Everything has to be trending in the right direction to your , to your original point . So just make if it's important .

If it's important , yeah , just make sure you're checking in on health , wealth and love . If we said health , wealth and love , specifically , are you trending in the right direction and are you having consistent ? Let's just say , are you having consistent days , cause I would argue that consistent 50% days are better than spotty percent nine , spotty 90%s .

So I took 14 days and multiplied it by.7 , which comes to 9.8 , versus if you were to do seven days straight .

and he does 100% every other day . All right , so I take 14 , I multiply it by.7, . I get 9.8 . He does every other day , which is only seven days times one , which is seven . So I can crunch the math on how much quote unquote better or more productive I am than you . Okay , well , so let's do this 9.8 divided by seven , multiplied by 100 .

I am 40% more productive than Kevin , even though I'm less right . That's the mathematical proof of what Kevin's been saying about I would rather you do 70% consistency than 100% . Spotty , yeah , yeah . And that's the mathematical proof of I .

If him and I both go head to head for two weeks in the gym and I'm consistent and he's I'm consistent 70% and he's only every other day 100% , I am 40% more productive mathematically speaking , and it's momentum too .

just never go number one Every time you use that . You just took it out Like all right , let's put it in , we'll take it out , and if you want to use it next week , we'll put it back in and then we'll take it back out .

Versus someone who lives on a body of water and has a boat there , it's going to be way more likely that they're successful . Or why do you think ? I was watching a video on some snowboarder yesterday and he was . He won his first competition at six . He was raising them up .

So that's just my example .

Sustainability is first , for a reason , even though I was wrong about putting consistency first . So one of the reasons why this is my next level nugget , one of the reasons why I'd rather you do a 70% consistent day , is because when you're shooting for perfect , you can't do it consistently . It's not sustainable .

It's not sustainable and if it's not sustainable , it's not gonna work . It's just gonna crush your self-esteem again . So Emilia and I , coming up on two years soon I say soon , it's like 100 days out but we've been exercising every day .

But remember we're only doing 30 minute walks every other day and then 45 minute weight training every other day , and at the beginning it was only a half hour weight training . So I'd rather you be consistent and sustainable and improve along the way than constantly do these starts and stops too hot out of the gate and then lose your momentum .

So if you can't sustain it , don't start it .

You and I were talking about the math 40% more .

I'm telling you , or you do , or you do 400% days , then you get 400% output .

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