Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, everybody, and welcome to today's episode of the Never Peak Project Podcast. I'm your host, Coach Ranger, mindset coach, speaker, and the guy who once walked across the country to figure out what really matters. Now, this podcast is for high achievers who look successful on the outside, but quietly feel like they're still stuck halfway up the mountain. Around here, we
talk about the messy. meaningful work of identity, leadership, and living a life worth remembering. And today, we're diving into a thought that will absolutely wreck your momentum if you let it. Well, that's easy for them. Let's get into it. Now, if you ever caught yourself looking at someone's success and thinking, well, of course they can do it. Look at their life. I want you to pause and ask, what reps am I not doing that they probably
are? Because you don't get to be mad about someone else's harvest when you haven't done the planting. Now let me tell you a quick story. About two weeks into my walk across America, I hit a little bit of a breaking point. I was in South Carolina, alone, walking up these brutal rolling hills. Not mountains. but relentless hills. The kind of hills that don't look too bad until you're on foot with 20 pounds on your back, 100 pounds in front of you, and knees that are screaming
at you. Now, cars were flying past me at 70 miles an hour, up hills that were taking me 15, 20, 30, 45 minutes, and sometimes even over an hour to climb. And it was rough. It wasn't great for morale. And there was really no finish line in sight. I couldn't even see what was past the next hill. There was no big music. There was no cheering. It was just me, those hills, backpack, cart, and my own thoughts. And here's the thing. I didn't sit there and wish that I was someone
else. I didn't look at the cars and say, oh, this is easy for them. Look how fast they're getting it. And somehow make myself feel worse about the situation by comparing it. I sat with the heart. Well, should I say I walked. with the hard and through it. But really, I just knew I needed to take one painful, sweaty, discouraging step at a time until I got to the other side. And you know what? That day doesn't really fit in the highlight reel when you first think of
it. But it was one of the things that made my results so sweet. Because every single step that I took was a deposit into the bank of earned success. And when I think about those hills in South Carolina and how I could have easily fallen into the comparison game, it reminds me of when I actually did fall into that game of comparison. When I first saw that Mike Posner had walked across the United States, I had this instant reaction. My first thoughts were, how cool, how
amazing. I wish I could do something like that. And then I told myself all the stories as to why I couldn't do it. But then that switched. If I had the money that he had, time wouldn't even be an issue. You could just do a few miles a day and blah, blah, blah. And I was so caught up in all the things that he had, I didn't even think of the stuff that he did. Because, yeah, he might have had more resources, but you know
what else he had? Every single step behind him and in front of him, just like me, just like you. But he still had to walk the road. Even though he had a van, even though he had a support team, he still had to do the work. I sat there criticizing someone else's output while doing none of the input myself. You don't get to resent someone else's success when you haven't done the reps they have. And I see this all the time. So many of my clients fall into this trap and
maybe you do too. You look at someone with the business you want, a body you want, a life you want, and you think, well, that's easy for them. But you don't know their story. You don't know if you're judging their highlight reel from the middle of your own journey. Now, I like to tell my clients, don't compare your Rocky montage to their final scene. You don't know the cuts, the sweat, the missed shots, the disappointments. You're only seeing the result. not the work that
went into creating it. Now, when my clients are stuck in that mindset, I ask, what would you have to do to make success inevitable? What kind of reps would make the result unreasonable for you to not achieve? Then we talk about the difference between wanting the harvest and doing the planning. You want the summer bod, but you don't want the gym time. You want the dream relationship, but not the hard conversations. You want the business, but not the risk or the reach outs. Let's be
honest. You don't want the plane ride. You want the vacation. If you're ready to stop comparing yourself to others and start building real momentum, here's what I'd like you to do today. Step one is to catch the comparison. When that voice says things like that's easy for them, I want you to pause and say, maybe. What are they doing? And what am I doing? And then I want you to pick one rep. Not a huge change, just something. One thing. Send the email, make the call, do the
set, go on the date. And the third is to repeat it quietly. It doesn't need to be loud. It just needs to be consistent. And if you'd like to figure out what that one step is for you, feel free to hit the link in the description. There is a link there to my Calendly for a free 15 -minute call where I can help you figure out where comparison is coming up in your life and how you can take steps to get past it. So really, thank you so much for being here and for doing
the work most people won't. It really matters. And if today's episode hit home, share it with a friend or a teammate who needs to hear it. And until next time, remember that the best is yet to come as long as you are willing to make the decision every day to never settle, never quit, and never peak. I'll see you guys in the next one.