Be Consistent In Your Work
It’s funny. We see an entertainer, athlete or successful entrepreneur and think they just woke up that way, great. We see them at the top of their industry. At the top of their game. We don’t see the years of work it took for their game to be where it is. Or the amount of work the movie took to make. Or the years a book took to go from nothing to finished product. It takes consistency in work. The late, great, Kobe Bryant wasn’t always great. He was however, consistent in his work. Kobe admitted to being awful at basketball when he first started.
Kobe said:
“I was terrible.”
“Awful.”
“I wasn’t the most athletic.”
Kobe was twelve years old and played a 25-game season where he scored zero points. Zero. Not a free throw, a lucky break or a basic layup. Nothing!
Instead of dwelling at how awful he was, Kobe looked long-term and he broke his inefficiencies down. “I had to look long term. I had to say, ‘ok, this year I’m going to get better at this. Next year, that.’ And so forth and so on. And patiently, I got better.”
By being consistent at the work, Kobe’s basketball game got better. He graduated high school and went right to the NBA.
Kobe continues, “it was piece by piece. It was the consistency of the work. Monday, get better. Tuesday, get better. Wednesday, get better. You do that over a period of time—three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years—you get to where you want to go. It’s simple. It’s simple math.”
The work is simply showing up. Each day and getting better. Whatever it is you’re working on. There is a basic, simple math formula. The more days you show up, the better you get. A focused hour is better than a distracted eight hours.
When you get to work, just be consistent.
Thought Provoking Questions : Before you quit, ask yourself, ‘am I being consistent at the work’?
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