Let’s discuss why being consistent will get you much farther than success! Who here has never failed in life? If you said yes, you can stop reading and move on with your boring day… Now that all the failures are still reading we can get down to business.

How did you overcome your past failures? Did you consistently work to improve and achieve more or did you just focus on being successful? Reality is the only way to eventually be successful is to be consistent first. There are 7 games in the World Series and NBA Championship for a reason, the most consistent team wins even if they aren’t considered the most “successful”!

I have always loved the Michael Jordan quote “I’ve missed 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed”.

Each day is your shot to build a rewarding and healthy life and the more shots you take seriously the more wins you will have. In my 33 years that means I have had 12,045 shots. By consistently applying maximum effort and maintaining an unwavering positive attitude success has become my reality. Below are a few tips to help you make it yours!

1. Just keep seeing the good and potential in all situations.

This is a personal reminder as much as it is a social reminder. You are going to get down on yourself and frustrated with your situation from time to time, but it is crucial to see past this and look for the positive potential hidden within. No matter how difficult and challenging a situation may be there will always be something to learn and use in the future if you are looking for it. Keep this mindset and you will always have a fighting chance.

Expert Tip: Remember you control your attitude and your reactions to hardships!

2. Trust the Process

Everything that is transformative, and groundbreaking takes a lot of effort and preparation ahead of the actual breakthrough. This is what consistency is all about. If you always back out instead of pushing forward you will never achieve anything in life much less ever consider yourself successful. Great experience and knowledge of a specific process or subject is where you can find these gems that have often been over looked, overcomplicated, or never discovered.

Expert Tip: Each step closer should be a celebrated act of consistency!

3. Have A Childlike Curiosity

There are a few mesmerizing humans who manage to remain consistently obsessed with a single task and produce amazing results. One trait that they often display is the love of learning, discovering and fixing problems. Their enthusiasm rivals that of a child with a new interactive puzzle. They just sit for hours and stare and tinker until they figure out the only way the pieces could fit to solve the puzzle. This may be one of the greatest assets you could have if you are aiming to create a service or a product that will actually fix issues our society is dealing with.

Discovery Question: What could you learn about all day without getting bored or wanting to quit?

4. Share Dreams

You never know when someone standing right next to you is holding a piece of the puzzle you have been searching for the entire time. Sharing your ideas is the only way to pull this puzzle piece out of them. You need to realize that 2, 3, or 4 consistent minds are stronger than 1. At times you are going to get tired and burnt out, so it is important to have help if you want long term success. It is hard to stay consistent by yourself over a long period of time.

Discovery Question: Who amongst your circle has traits that you lack or you could benefit from?

5. Tunnel Vision

It’s easy in our digital age to listen to the naysayers and doubters around you. It’s also easy to look at other’s “success” and think I will never achieve that, but you have to stay consistently dedicated to your mission. All of the most “successful” people consistently only worry about their mission and how they are going to achieve it. Your belief in you is what ultimately will make others believe in you as well!

Expert Tip: Turn off the social media and news!

Now that you know 5 traits to help you remain consistent and to get ahead, you can make your Facebook video teaching everyone how to be successful and make millions with your rented Ferrari and $2,000 dollar Versace wallet! Just kidding, but you can remain consistently dedicated to achieving anything you set your sites on!

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It’s Tuesday at the office lunch table and you have finally emerged victorious over your battle with the Monday blues to recap your wonderful 2 days of bliss known as the weekend, but what about the other 5 days of the week? Are they not meant to be lived to the fullest? Let’s look at the numbers: 7 > 2. The verdict is in. A 7-day weekend is better than a 2-day weekend, but how could we possibly have a 7 day weekend every week?

Follow Your Purpose and Passion

Figure out a way to make a living doing the things that make your soul sing and each day will become a gift just waiting to be unwrapped. One way to do this is to use the connections you have made in your current career. Inevitably many of these connections will have family and friends who are either doing a job you are interested in or could be potential clients or customers for you in the future. Find a local mentor who has a job you are interested in and reach out to them. Let them know you just want to learn more about their professional experience. A good mentor will provide you with an opportunity to identify what kind of credentials and experience are needed to get a job and help you find the opportunities to acquire one.

Fail Fail Fail

There’s only one way to learn how to do something new and that is to try new things. A majority of the time this means you are going to fail and that is great. Life is meant to challenge and force you to grow, not just acquire one skill and settle for mediocrity until your final days. Success only comes to those who stay dedicated and keep trying no matter how hard something is or how many times they fail. Keep pushing on and you will become stronger and more experienced with each attempt and that is what we like to call a win/win!

Get Real with Your Expenses

It’s easy to mindlessly purchase things just because you have a few extra dollars laying around or because it is on sale, but what if this money was being set aside to give you more freedom? Let’s say you created a budget and discovered you could literally live off $15,000 a year and had a salary of $28,000 a year? You could put the extra $13,000 into a savings or retirement account, but based on statistics, most American’s don’t even put 13% of $13,000 into their savings and retirement funds. You are much more likely to buy a bunch of stuff you will be bored with in a year or don’t even have time to use. If you create a budget and manage to save $13,000 dollars you could take at least 10 months off work to build a new life or just enjoy your freedom. That’s when you can really make changes in your approach to every day life!

Be Grateful For The Life You’ve Designed

You are living a life that you have been the designer of so, either be grateful for it or build something you can be grateful for. With a clear picture of what you want, you can easily take the steps needed to design your ideal life. The secret to moving forward is remaining aware of what you do and don’t want. Designing a happy and fulfilling week is simple, all you have to do is choose to work for and build the week you desire with every single decision.

Stop waiting for a specific place on a calendar to enjoy your life and get to work living 7 days a week!

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It’s easy to think “I am just one person and my actions aren’t going to make a difference. So, why strive to change the world?” Well, if you change the world for one person you are changing the world. The decision to act and make a change in your life is going to affect everyone around you. Let’s say you have 1 spouse, 3 kids & their 3 spouses, 3 siblings, 6 cousins, 5 friends, 2 coworkers and 1 boss. That’s 24 people that are affected or influenced by your actions. Now if those 24 people have 24 relatives and friends and make changes in their lives that’s 527 people affected. Quickly you will have had an impact on hundreds of thousands of people (24 x 24 = 576 x 24 = 13,824 x 24 = 331,276). Don’t take for granted your ability to make an impact on this world.

Lead By Example

When you decide to work on really making a difference you will receive so much resistance that it becomes comical, but remember that’s just icing on the cake as you succeed day after day. You must be seen before you will be listened to. To make honest, lasting, realistic changes in yourself and the world you have to become this change. It is extremely difficult to have someone see themselves differently, but it makes it a lot easier when you show them how. Work on being the person you want the world to learn from and grow with. You have been given great power with great responsibility. Don’t let another opportunity to show the world a better more harmonious way to succeed slip away.

Focus on Possibilities

There are going to be many obstacles, challenges, tasks, slips, trips and falls along the way and that is ok. Just get up and keep moving forward no matter how big or small your steps are. Nothing can overcome a faithful, disciplined, dedicated, passionate and excited believer headed toward their destiny. Will there be days, weeks, months of doubt and fear? Yes. These are the opportunities to look outside of the tunnel vision that you have fallen into and seek the next steps that must be taken. Sometimes you have to be forced to grow and become more and these are those times. Focus on your next possibility and explore it each and every day until you are back on your way.

Believe and You Shall See

How far would you go if you believed your work was leading you to a glorious and magnificent level of living that will forever change the way you, your family, friends and all of mankind will experience their time on earth? This is what will drive you to keep tearing down wall after wall on this journey of the soul that never ends. It’s time to believe that you are going to see, hold, feel and experience every level of beauty that this life has to offer. This is the truth if you are willing to sacrifice and believe in every step along the way.

Let your hopes, dreams, and desires be the building blocks for your thoughts and actions. Believe deeply with every ounce of your soul and you will Change the world!

It’s 9 days into the New Year, are you still doing what it takes to become a stronger, healthier, more dedicated and focused person? Or is tomorrow going to be your day? What if I told you tomorrow doesn’t exist. How would you think about today? Would you put it all on the line working hard in this moment to make the most out of every second? This is called living and working in the present, and it is all we have. You can’t work on yesterday or build tomorrow without starting today.

Stay on Your Path!

Before you get distracted and pulled away from your intended tasks of the day, set some boundaries with your coworkers, boss, and yourself to make sure you don’t spiral out of focus. Set a 20-minute timer and work in intervals on and off. This will help you get into a zone and stay dedicated to one thing at a time. What are your 3 most important things that need to be done today? Do these things first. Even if you have some other tasks that showed up in your email this morning. Priorities aren’t priorities if they are flexible.

Follow Through!

This is something many of us fail to do when it comes to our own dreams or goals. When it’s work or something our “boss” tasked us with, we get it done, but when it is something we want to do for ourselves we sacrifice and put it on the back burner. You are your boss and your dreams and goals are the #1 thing that should be important to you. Is a tired, stressed, neglected and unsuccessful person going to be a great worker, spouse, friend or parent? No. You can’t consistently neglect yourself and expect to be the best version of you. Don’t end another day as a defeated mediocre shadow of the wonderful energetic being you are.

What are you doing today?

Living in the present moment is complicated and challenging especially in the digital age. We always have a computer within an arm’s reach and that isn’t always a good thing as it can distract us from completing the tasks that bring value to our lives. Close your eyes right now and think about 10 tasks you completed this week. Were these accomplishments mindless habits, tasks you created, or tasks created by someone else? How did these tasks add benefit to your life? Were they detrimental in any way? Be intentional about the tasks you choose to complete.

Building your life from the end to the beginning will make it a lot easier to choose the steps it takes to get there each day. Wouldn’t it be exciting to know where you are heading rather than just saying “I don’t know, wherever my bank account sends me”?

Before your New Year’s Day motivation turns into a Valentine’s Day disappointment take 1 day to write down a detailed plan of how you will achieve your dreams and goals (think big). Identify these steps to help you maintain your focus today because tomorrow will be too late!

What was your first and last thought yesterday? Was it one of satisfaction, gratitude, and success? Or was it one of frustration about how life has spiraled out of your control?  The truth is your life looks exactly like you have imagined it. When you are not in control of your thoughts and emotions, your life will consistently feel chaotic and out of control. On the other hand, If you’re in complete control of your thoughts and are able to adapt to every situation with no emotional interference, you are probably a psychopath :}

If you are always hurting, feeling like a victim of life and stressed out, you are most likely holding in some emotional distress. That emotional mindset can manifest into physical pain and distress if not dealt with. If you find that you are in a rhythmic flow with your purpose, job, relationships and the earth, you are probably consistently dealing with and accepting your thoughts and emotions. In all cases, it starts with your decision to control your life or be controlled by life.

We all have the same basic human needs and if you are not familiar with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1) your self-actualization is at the top of the pyramid. My basic interpretation of it is; if you aren’t living your life’s purpose, you will always have internal turmoil. Life has to be seized and created from the inside out and this all starts with who you believe you are. If you think you are healthy, active and happy you will become healthy, active, and happy.

In order to start cultivating a healthy mindset, you must first accept that you get the life you settle for or the life you work to achieve. Once you truly understand that, you will have the ability to create the life you deserve. Of course, there are things out of your control specifically the effects our man-made environments have on our bodies and the actions other people take that affect us. Despite this you still have control over your reactions to these hardships. Avoid lowering your expectations and performance to blend in with the world around you. Create your own world and invite others to live with you on top your highest mountain!

Now that you know how to cultivate a healthy and happy internal dialogue, what’s your life going to look like?

• Go grab your journal, a piece of paper or your vision board and write down 5 aspects of your ideal life.
• Next, write down 5 new tasks it will take to make this your reality.

By starting your journey on paper, you are already beginning to take the steps necessary to achieving it. Use these steps to bring your dreams into reality and celebrate each successful milestone. Don’t waste one more ounce of your precious time or energy thinking about what you don’t want. Before bed and each morning take a moment to remember your favorite athletic or physical accomplishment and your happiest moment of the last month!

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

What an amazing concept it is that you can change your entire life with a question and the consequent actions. In 2014 I had been a fitness trainer for 2 years and my career really began picking up steam. I had a ton of clients, was gaining a lot of experience and really enjoyed helping others, but I was also still serving on active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard. This caused my work week to last 80+ hours and that was not sustainable. In August of 2014 the crossroads were closing in and a decision had to be made. It was time to determine if my 10-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard or my blossoming 2-year career as a Fitness Professional was going to end? So, I asked 2 questions to help me make the decision!

1. Who needed my services more?

The Coast Guard would just replace me with another E6 and keep plugging away because that’s what the system is built for!

My clients on the other hand may not have the same opportunity to keep plugging away if I wasn’t there supporting them. You see, I work with many 70+ year old’s and I literally feared that they may not stay active if I wasn’t around to help them.

2. God, what should I do with my life?

I lifted my question to the lord and he delivered as always. I went to church that week and the Mass’s homily was built around using your God given abilities to help others and improve the world.

Believe it or not this was the moment I knew what I had to do and went to work. I went back to school and earned a degree in Exercise Science, started building tools to help me and my clients, began preparing financially to transition out of the U.S Coast Guard and saving for the down payment on our gym, talking to the owners of my current gym about my potential future with them, convincing my then wife it was a good idea and I would succeed, attending as many workshops as possible, and listening to or reading as many books as I could find. Click here for a short list of my suggested readings to live and work better.

As you can see I didn’t just jump off a cliff hoping to find a parachute, I built a plane first. The decision to make massive changes in your life is scary, exciting and difficult, but asking the right questions will help you envision the right answers. Are you happy, healthy and excited to be alive? Only you can change these answers. Don’t let another day go by without asking and answering the most important questions in your life!