21 Days to Win! How to Be CONSISTENT!

Good morning, Believe Nation! It's Evan Carmichael. My one word is believe. I believe in you, and I want to see that thing you've got inside you explode out into the universe to have a big impact. And so to help you on your journey today, we're gonna learn how to develop high-performance habits. Rule number 2 is my personal favorite, and I'd love to know which one you guys like the best. And as always, guys, as you're watching, if you hear something that really resonates with you, please leave it down in the comments below and put quotes around it so other people can be inspired. And when you write it down, it's much more likely to stick with with yourself as well.

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Motivation gets you going, good habits keep you going. Jim Ryan, the great miler who never won a gold medal in the Olympics for the 1500-meter told me about 40 years ago, "Dan, habits get you, keep you, or motivation starts you, but good habits." But it's like, you know, it's like training. If I didn't train as much as I did, I'm 70 years old, I wouldn't look like I look. And I don't feel 70. People tell me I don't look 70. And I can normally work people a lot younger than me into the ground. But I've been doing it for almost 50 years now.

Yeah, nonstop, just keeping it cool, nonstop.

You will move in the direction of the people that you associate with. So I— it's important to associate with people that are better than yourself. And actually, the most important decision many of you make, not all of you, will be the spouse you choose. And, uh, you really You want to associate with people who are the kind of person you'd like to be. You'll move in that direction. And the most important person by far in that respect is your spouse. I can't overemphasize how important that is. And you're right, the friends you have, uh, they will form you as you go through life. And, uh, uh, make some good friends, keep them for the rest of your life, but Have them be people that you admire as well as like.

Bill, you'd add to that?

Yeah, some friends do bring out the best in you, and so those— it's good to invest in those friendships.

And, you know, some friends challenge you about things you're doing, and that, you know, that level of intimacy is great.

The power of 21. And so when I've been telling you to get that goal, get that dream, and I've just been telling you drive it and drive it Drive it and drive it. What I've been talking about is consistency. And for some of you, for real, for real, you'll never have it, you'll never be it, you'll never do it because you don't have any consistency. You listen to me, you are killing me and you killing yourself. You start and you stop and you start and you stop, and then you start and you stop. And your goal, you got to own the wall, you got the Bentley on the wall, you got the gated community on the wall, you got the degree on the wall. But the problem is you keep starting and stopping and starting and stopping. And all I'm asking you to do for me is I'm asking for some consistency. All right, all right, so I'm talking about the The power of 21. Are you hearing what I'm telling you? I'm talking about doing something for 21 straight days. Now, it may not work. I remember when I first did this, the first thing I started, my boy Holleran Hill, he gave me a book called the Book of Proverbs, right? He told me to read like a book of Proverbs a day for 21 days. He's like, E, just start a habit. For real, we started with reading Proverbs, something real simple, but he said, E, if you can do something for 21 days, you'll never have to think about it. I don't know if you caught what I told you this morning. I woke up at 3 o'clock this morning, 3 o'clock, burnt out, tired, like, yo, E, I can't do it. I just boom, went back to sleep, boom, 3 minutes later my body woke me up. What am I saying to you? I'm telling you consistency, habits. My body like, yo E, I don't know what you doing. I don't know what you think you doing, but we don't do that. Sleep is for suckers. Get up. Listen to me, not my mind, my body kicked in and said, get up. We talking about consistency. And so I read the book of Proverbs 21 straight days, right? And I started doing other stuff. I said, we gonna exercise for 21 days. I just started trying to do stuff for 21 days to see if I can do it. And what I discovered is for real, and I'm gonna be honest with y'all, I did 14 days. Then I started all over again. I said, this time I did 16 days. Then I started all over again and I did 18 days. Then I started all over again and I did 21. Some stuff I can do 21 straight days. Some stuff I gotta start and stop and start and stop and start. But when you get to 21, there's power in consistency.

Your habits determine what direction you're going. Your success in life, your results in life are in direct proportion to your habits. What do you— not what you say you're gonna do, but what are you gonna do? You've got to develop successful habits. And I believe that starts with being a daily goal setter and a daily goal hitter. That you get up— you know, too many people spend their whole life, they say they're dreaming, but they're really just pipe dreams. They're thinking about what they want to be doing in 20 years and what their plans are way out in the future. Let me tell you what, the future you need What you need to be worried about is not the next 20 years, but the next 20 minutes. What are you gonna be doing? What are you gonna be doing to be effective? When you get up every day, know your priorities. Life will overwhelm you. Stuff will overwhelm you.

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with all the information we have now, whether it's your phone where sometimes I think we have smartphones and stupid people. I mean, it is so easy to get consumed by a bunch of stuff that is not gonna give you get you where you want to get to. Say every day, "I will do today what others don't, so I will have tomorrow what others want." You've got to choose to be effective. Know what your priorities are. Know what your must-dos are. Don't let your phone, don't let your tablet, don't let the TV, don't let your friends knock you off What are the most important things to get done today? Sir Winston Churchill didn't have an inbox. He had an action this day box. And so things didn't get into that box that he wasn't gonna deal with that day. So make, as John Wooden said, make today your masterpiece. Get up today and get it done. Finish the day, attack the day. And go change your life.

The fourth key to developing a new habit is to visualize yourself performing or behaving in a particular way in a particular situation. The more often you visualize and imagine yourself acting as if you already had the new habit, the more rapidly this new habit will be accepted by your subconscious mind and eventually become automatic, like programming a computer.

High performers have more energy. A high-performing athlete has more energy than one who's doggin' it. We know that there's a physical vitality, a mental stamina too, that goes along with their days. The energy, it's just— you're so like, it's palpable. You can feel it around them. And of course, it's not luck. They're generating that energy. They're conditioning that energy in their body by their training regimen. They're conditioning the energy in their mental stamina by having the clarity of what to focus on, what not to focus on, and getting very disciplined about where they give their time, energy, effort, attention. So they're not pulled in a million different places. Because you know how it is, if you're pulled in a million different places or you're multitasking dozens dozens of things, you're kind of— your energy, it's dissipated. Theirs is extraordinarily focused and powered up with reserves.

Thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed. I'd love to know, what did you think of this video? What did you take home that you are going to immediately apply somehow into your life or your business? Please leave it down in the comments below. I would love to hear from you. I also want to give a quick shout out to the legendary Brian Tracy, who knows a few things about high-performance habits. Thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word, and doing the review and posting to your Facebook page. I really, really, really appreciate the support, and I'm so glad you enjoyed my book. Thank you guys again for watching. Have an amazing day. I believe in you. Hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love.

I'll see you soon.

You must make a decision. Decide clearly that you are going to begin acting in a specific way 100% of the time whenever that behavior is required. For example, if you decide to arise early and exercise each morning, set your clock for a specific time, and when the alarm goes off, immediately get up, put on your exercise clothes, and begin your exercise session. Second, never allow an exception to your new habit pattern during the formative stages. Don't make excuses or rationalizations. Don't let yourself off the hook. If you resolve to get up at 6 AM each morning, discipline yourself to get up at 6 AM every single morning until this becomes automatic.

There's a gap between who people are and what they tell you they want to accomplish. Because in the beginning, I hired everyone. Everyone.

Right.

Not because I'm super smart and thought, hey, I should. There was no one else. Right. Like, we had a The smallest handful of people ever. And so I started doing the interviewing. As I was doing it, I start realizing, God, these guys tell me they want to do something amazing with their life. And if you just listen, like, wow, yeah, like, I want to be on your team, dude, you're going to do amazing stuff. And then you realize they can't execute on that dream. So why can't they? They don't have the mindset yet. Like, there's a— you could do an entire podcast series on how to get the mindset, but I'll just use Carol Dweck and her amazing book Mindset. We have it up there too on the shelf somewhere. I'm sure. Such a good book. I see Simon Sinek up there, who is also very influential on us. And she says some people either believe they're as smart as they're ever going to be and that's that, so they're going to be ego-protective and they're going to, you know, try to thwart anything that makes them feel like they're not the smartest person or whatever. And then there's people with a growth mindset, and they realize, I'm not the smartest person, and I'm certainly not as smart as I could be, So even if I am the smartest person that ever lived, I could get a little bit smarter. And so when they're confronted with contradictory information, they learn and they soak it up like a sponge. Whereas other people are fixed mindset, right? Correct. They're fixed on like, no, this is the way and I'm right and that's wrong. Yes, and I would say the world, everyone's on a spectrum, right? Even I, as much as I believe in it and work my ass off to be a growth mindset, I still have, let's call it 10%, where I catch myself and I'm like, come on, dude, you know better than that.

Yeah.

But so people that fall in the, let's say, sub-50% spectrum of the growth mindset, it's got to be 98%.

And then the last point, and this is one of my favorites, and this is one that people really miss out on, is study success. Successful people study success. Success is not what we naively think, just something that happens naturally to some people and doesn't happen to other people. Success is a very deliberate conscious endeavor that you undertake. Success is built over months and years, and it's done consciously. And the more you understand the principles of success, the concepts of success, the more you study people who have been successful, the more you see what it really takes. And that process of success, the principles, are not always what they seem. And to me, this is something that I really committed my life to, is studying these principles. I really love it. It's exciting for me. And I really encourage you to get involved with that. So that means maybe attending some seminars, reading some books, watching these videos, learning about it. Maybe joining a group of friends that are successful, joining a mastermind group, right? Be around successful people, learn how the success process works, and learn the psychology of success. Not the externals of success, but the psychology. That's what we're talking about.

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If you had to think of one word that's most important to you or that sums you up or that would be kind of like a little beacon.

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