The Nick Bare Podcast - 184: Why Most People Fail at Consistency and How to Fix It

Episode Date: July 27, 2026

This week, I'm connecting the topic of this podcast with my most recent vlog titled, "How to Be More Consistent." In this episode, I break down why most people who responded to my question on Instagram struggle with consistency and usually, it's not motivation. Pulling from Atomic Habits, I share how I built my morning run, my meal prep, and my training around systems, not willpower.CHAPTERS00:00 Why This Episode Is All About Consistency02:27 The Cycle05:29 Here's What People Said They Struggle With Most 06:26 What Makes Kobe & MJ Different From Everyone Else09:43 My 20 Years of the Same Training Movements11:21 Habits, Evidence, and Identity15:37 Goals vs. Systems: Why Systems Win20:47 My 5AM Wake-Up and Morning Run Routine23:47 Designing Your Environment for Success28:56 The Meal Prep Story36:36 Priming My Habits45:04 Eliminating Decision Fatigue46:00 The Pros and Cons of Habit Tracking48:34 Consistently Good Beats Occasionally GreatORDER MY BOOK HERE: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Go-One-More-Intentional-Life-Changing/dp/1637746210FOLLOW:Become a BPN member FOR FREE - Unlock 25% off FOR LIFE ⁠https://www.bareperformancenutrition.com/collections/performance-nutritionIG: ⁠instagram.com/nickbarefitness/⁠YT: ⁠youtube.com/@nickbarefitnessThis podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal [health or profession] advice. Bare Performance Nutrition (BPN) is not responsible for any losses, damages, or liabilities that may arise from the use of this podcast. This podcast is not intended to replace professional medical advice.This podcast may not be republished without the written consent of Bare Performance Nutrition (BPN)MB01AQ7ZWU9L2R4

Today's podcast is all about how to be more consistent. And a lot of this episode, much of this episode, is inspired by a book that I'm holding in my hand right now. You have probably heard of it. It is extremely popular. It is called Atomic Habits by James Clear. If you have not read this book yet, I highly recommend reading Atomic Habits. tiny changes, remarkable results, an easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones. It's a great book overall. It's a book that you could reread every single year just to respark your habits, your motivation, your purpose behind creating habits.

and I'm going to be referencing this book a lot in this episode. Many of the thoughts that I'm sharing in this episode are pulled directly from James Clear's work in this book, Atomic Habits, and then I'll be sprinkling on my own thoughts and experiences and practices that I incorporate into my life to be more consistent. one of the things James Clear says early on in this book that ever since I read has stuck to me like glue like a tick, like a leech. I just cannot get rid of it.

He says, you do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. And before we jump into this episode, I do want to riff on something really quickly. And it's inspired by this quote within the book. As soon as we experience the slightest dip in motivation, we begin seeking a new strategy, even if the old one was still working. Perhaps this is why we get caught up in a never-ending cycle, jumping from one workout to the next,

one diet to the next, one business idea to the next. That's the problem, is that too many people and when I say too many people, I'm not excluding myself from all of what I'm sharing today. There have been seasons of my life where I have been inconsistent in certain areas of my life, but as a whole, I consider myself a very committed and consistent person.

It is what has led me to where I am today. The success that I have, achieved and will continue to achieve mainly because of the power of consistency. Consistency compounds. But here's the problem. And I'll reference this quote again. As soon as we experience the slightest dip in motivation, we begin seeking a new strategy. Too many people, they start something new.

And as soon as they lose the motivation, as soon as that initial spark and flame starts to dwindle down, just a little bit, they jump to something new. People don't stick with one thing long enough to experience the true power, the true remarkable results that consistency and habits and systems can prove in your life. You have to stick with something long enough.

You need to be consistent with something long enough to actually see it turn into something remarkable, beautiful, amazing. But too often, as soon as that motivation dips, just the slightest, people jump to the next thing, and the next thing, and the next thing. You know, he references in this quote, workouts, diets, businesses. I know so many people who they start a new training routine, And as soon as they become bored with it, they jump to the next training routine. They start a new diet.

Maybe they start the carnivore diet or a keto diet. And as soon as they lose the slightest bit of motivation, they jump to something new. And the next. And the next. I'm sure you have these people in your life who every time you talk to them, they are pursuing a new business, a new job, a new hobby, a new passion. They never stick with one thing long enough to, see it just turn into greatness.

And I feel for these people. I've been asking people for years in person on social media. I send out surveys. I sent out a survey on my Instagram two weeks ago. And I got thousands of responses. And I asked the question, what do you struggle with the most when it comes to your fitness, your health, building muscle? losing weight, eating right, what is it you struggle the most with?

Then every time I ask this question, 95% of the answers, that's no exaggeration, 95% of the answers and responses is consistency. I struggle with being consistent. I got that flame, that spark for a period of time, and then I lose it, and I fall off. And I have to restart over and over and over again. what makes the most highly successful people in the world different from everyone else?

I think about basketball. What makes Kobe Bryant? What makes Michael Jordan so successful compared to all the other basketball players out there? From atomic habits. What's the difference between the best athletes and everyone else? What do really successful people do that most don't? I'll add in here, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, what did they do to get to the peak of their basketball career in which they achieved? At some point, it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day.

Do the same lifts over and over and over. Really successful people feel the same lack of motivation as everyone else. That's the truth. Really successful people feel the same lack of motivation as everyone else. The difference is that they still find a way to show up despite the feelings of boredom. Mastery requires practice. But the more you practice something, the more boring and routine it becomes. The greatest threat to success is not failure, but boredom.

So what's the key takeaway here? What do people who consistently achieve success, they consistently win? You know, you got someone who always loses, looking at the person who always wins and says, it must be nice. It must be nice to always win.

It must be nice to be so lucky. Yeah, luck might play part of it. But what makes highly successful people so accustomed to winning and succeeding is that they can embrace monarchy. notony. The same thing over and over and over again. Repetition over and over and over again. Boredom over and over and over again. When I think about Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, much of their training, while I'm sure there was strength training incorporated in speed drills and footwork,

it's standing on a line and throwing a ball into a hoop through a net over and over. over and over again. Do you think they got bored of that? Absolutely. But the amount of repetitions, the monotony that they had to practice allowed them to be so great. There's so many things that I do in my daily life

that is so routine and boring, but I show up every day and I still do. because I know consistency compounds. Now, much of my training is strength training. I go into the gym. And for the last two decades, I've been doing the same or similar movements. On push day, I'm doing push-ups. I'm doing some sort of pressing movement.

I'm doing flies. I'm doing body weight dips. I'm doing tricep work, push-downs, extension. I've been doing those for two decades. Do those movements, become boring, yes, they do at some point. But that stimulus over extended periods of time and incorporating progressive overload, more reps, more sets, more volume, more weight, it builds muscle. It improves a physique. Slowly, but surely, the most successful people

embrace monotony. Repetition, boredom. Going back to the text, really successful people feel the same lack of motivation as everyone else. The difference, do they still find a way to show up despite the feelings of boredom? So if you're bored and you lose some motivation from time to time in what you are doing and building and working towards, it's okay. It's expected. It's part of the process. And one of the things that really stood out within atomic habits that I had to incorporate into this episode and this conversation that I believe is really important is the correlation between habits, evidence, and identity.

And one of the questions that James Clear challenges the reader in this book, is do you consider yourself what you want to be? And if you don't consider yourself as in terms of your identity of who you want to be, it's hard to incorporate the habits to get there. Belief comes before ability. It's something I've been saying for years.

And I truly believe it. Belief comes before ability. you have to believe you're already that person that you're working towards to be. Do you consider yourself a consistent and committed person? If not, it's hard to implement the systems and habits to get there. If you want to start running, do you have an insecurity around calling yourself a runner? if you want to be healthier, is there an insecurity

around saying you live a healthy lifestyle? So it starts with habits. We have to and place these habits that get us to where we want to be. The most practical way to change who you are, your identity,

is to change what you do. Your behavior is a reflection of your identity. You can't say, your identity is this, X, Y, and Z, you are this type of person. You can't say your identity is being a good dad, a good mom, a good husband, a good wife. But then your behaviors do not reflect that identity. So it starts with our habits.

What is it that we do on a daily basis? And when we practice those habits enough, that then creates evidence. and that evidence then proves our identity. Are you someone who says you are healthy? You are an athlete. You are someone who cares about your nutrition, your diet, the food you put in your body. If so, your behaviors have to reflect that identity.

James Clear says, every action you take, every habit you create, is a vote. for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs. But as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.

What you do, your habits, your actions, your behaviors, the more you do that, the more reps you get in, the more often you show up. Those votes build up. Those votes, that's evidence. evidence that says who you say you are is actually who you are because you're doing what it takes to become that person. Habits create evidence. Evidence is a reflection of your identity. As I mentioned in the beginning of this episode, I quoted,

you do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. I've written this down in many places that I look at on a daily basis in my phone, in my notebooks. It's on a sticky note by my computer. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Goals versus systems. Let's talk about that. Goals are important.

I just released a podcast. podcast episode talking about the importance of why you need goals that scare you. Jim Collins in the book Built the Last talks about B-Hags, big, hairy, audacious goals. Goals so big, they scare you. They intimidate you. They own you. They scare and intimidate people outside of your world more than you. yourself. Goals are important. I love having goals. I always have goals. It's my mission.

It guides me. It's directional. But systems are critically more important from atomic habits. Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results. You see, a goal-first mentality continually delays joy. It operates on the assumption that once I reach my goal, then I'll be happy. So we rush the finish line in hope of achieving happiness, but the daily processes and habits should be the focus. Joy should be found in the practice, not just the result. We need goals. Goals are good for setting the direction, but systems are best, for making progress. You know, my goal, when it comes to my fitness, my training, I want to be fitter.

I want to be faster. I want to be stronger. I want to be more durable. I want to have a better, hardened, more chiseled physique. That is why I train. That is the goal. That is what I'm working towards. that's the overarching vision.

If I break it down into smaller sub-goals of that, I might be training for an Ironman at the time or a high-rocks like I am right now, or a marathon or a bodybuilding competition. All of those, though, lead to the big vision goal. Fitter, faster, leaner, stronger, more endurance, more hybrid. But it's a systems,

the daily practices that we have to fall in love with to make this a sustainable approach. I have these goals, but these goals aren't necessarily finish lines. They're milestones. They're mile markers. I love training. And maybe you don't love training. And this applies to something else in your life. But I'm really passionate about working out and eating healthier and getting fitter and helping people reach their goals when it comes to health and fitness.

I love going into the gym and throwing down. I love the lifestyle that comes with that. Eating healthy, staying hydrated, sleeping well, making smart and intentional decisions around my lifestyle. I love my early morning run. Right now I'm really loving my high rock sessions that I do twice a week. It's a process that I fall in love with, the systems that I built out.

And if you can fall in love with the systems, and it comes down to a personal responsibility to finding and experimenting with ways that you fall in love with. The concepts are few, but the methods are many. You can apply this to anything. I want to get fitter. I want to get faster. I want to get stronger.

I want to get leaner. That's the concept. There's so many different methods you can incorporate to get there. And it's up to you to test, experiment, and find a method that you enjoy, that works for you, and that is fun. Your goals should and will determine your systems. I can't reinforce or harp on this enough. Because I've had conversations.

I met so many people before. In the past, currently, I know Will in the future, who are pretty clear in terms of what they want to come. and who they want to be, that identity, that goal. But they continuously fail to create habits and build systems that get them there. I have systems and routines and rhythms build out through my entire day and week that lead me to the directional goals that I set. these systems, these routines, these are habits. Some examples. I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and six out of the seven days a week, I go for a run, and I'm running by 5.30 a.m. One of my goals is to get fitter, to build endurance. Let's get faster. So I wake up as part of my system at or before 5 a.m. so I can be running by 5.30 a.m. And I'm wrapped up with that morning run before the family is awake for the day. I build on

these habits. I build on these systems that I stick to, that I'm consistent with, that compound over time to get me to where I want to be, the person I want to become, but it's focusing on the systems, not just the goals they're going to get you there. One of the best ways to be more consistent is to design your environment for success, or at least as much as you can, from atomic habits. Disciplined people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control.

They spend less time in tempting situations. It's easier to practice self-restraint when you don't have to use it is very often. Yes, perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you are a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment. Self-control is a short-term strategy, not a long-term one. This deserves a second to really,

reinforce. I think we oftentimes think that very disciplined people, they are only disciplined because they have this crazy amount of heroic willpower and self-control. And don't get me wrong, that is definitely part of it. I consider myself a very disciplined person. I have a crazy amount of self-control, self-restraint, and willpower. But that is not the only reason I am disciplined. I am disciplined because I spend less time in tempting situations. I structure my day, my environment, my life in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control all the time. I create a disciplined environment. Some examples. Within our house, when we go to the grocery store or the farmer's market, we buy healthy nourishing food.

It's lean protein sources, dairy, fruits, vegetables. We buy sourdough, we make sourdough. It's just quality fuel and nutrition and nourishment that's in our house. house. We don't have all this junk food. We don't have a lot of unhealthy options. Yeah, we got a pint of ice cream in the freezer, but that thing's going to last six months in there. We got a bag of of chips that, you know, we might use for guacamole when we're having taco night, but we never finish it because it goes stale because we just don't eat enough of it in time. We fill our environment in our house, our pantry, our fridge, our freezer. With the foods, they're going to set us up for success. Just trying to eat foods in our house requires little self-estraint and willpower because we put healthy options available. In every house or apartment that Steph and I

have lived in since we started dating and then got married and started a family, we've always created a space to work out. Yes, we've had gym memberships and we've always had a gym at BPN, but for the days we couldn't make it to the gym or we're not going into the office, we've always had some sort of place to train where we're living, whether that's a room that has a few dumbbells and bands or a squat rack in the garage, or we filled the whole garage with gym equipment. You know, we've gone to all these different extremes, but we've all, always had a place in our home, in our environment that allowed us to act on the systems that are going to lead us to the goals that we want to accomplish. Your environment is everything.

It's what you're surrounded by, opportunities, things, food, people, the people you allow in your environment, consuming and occupying your time and your time, your family's time. Are they positive, challenging, good, hardworking, value-driven, mission-focused people that are helping you be more consistent and help you get towards the person you want to be, the results that are driving your systems? If not, it might be time to audit your environment. But you have to design your environment for success, or at least as much as you can. I shared this post a few weeks ago where you're traveling from Austin to Nashville with a family. And something that I do every time we get on a plane, every time we travel, is I carry this

small cooler that I got on Amazon. I throw a small ice pack in there and I have a Ziploc baggie a gallon Ziploc baggie that I put 300 grams of Jasmine rice 8 ounces of 937 ground beef some primal kitchen's buffalo sauce and every once in a while I'll throw some pickles in there

and I'll close that Ziploc bag up I'll throw up my cooler with a spoon and I will eat that meal whether it's on the plane right when we land of where we're traveling to I like to travel with a meal It is controlling the controllables that I am in control of.

I don't want to have to eat airport food or be tempted by something that is quick and convenient. I want to design my environment for success. And that requires forward thinking and backwards planning and prepping my foods and putting them in a Ziploc bag and throw it in the fridge. So we wake up at 4 a.m. to get the family ready to go hop on an early morning flight to go to wherever we're traveling to. I just grab that bag out of the fridge, throw it my cooler, and I'm good to go. I posted a photo of me eating a bag of beef and rice in the Nashville airport. And there are a lot of people who were motivated and encouraged by it. There were also a lot of people who said that's unnecessary.

and stupid and I get it. I'm not saying you have to do that. I'm just sharing that's one of the things that I do to design my environment for success. It's a system. It is a routine. It is a habit that I do every time we travel so I can be more consistent with my diet, my energy levels, the way I feel, the way I recover, the way I'm prepared for my next training session, or just to, you know, to travel with my family throughout the day. I like the way I feel when I feel healthy and I'm in control of the foods I'm consuming. People become food focused

when their times, their mind, and their purpose aren't fulfilled. You know, I've never been someone personally who forgets to eat. I hear this from people all the time. I just, I forgot to eat. It's 5 p.m.

And I just, I haven't thought about it all day. I unfortunately can't relate or resonate to that. As soon as I'm done with one meal, I'm thinking about the next meal. It's fuel for me. I like forward to eating. I like eating. I like food. Tasty, nourishing fuel focused food.

But I hear from people all the time. And they say, I just forgot to eat. If you struggle with being consistent with your diet, and if one of the reasons is because you are food focused, which is a lot of people, myself included, but I have willpower and self-control and self-restraint to make smart decisions when it comes to consuming food. But if you're someone who struggle with being food-focused all the time,

I would encourage you, find something to fill your time, establish a purpose, have a mission, fill your time, fill your mind with something you're working towards. Because I know when I am working on something and I'm focused and I'm dialed in, I'm not thinking about the next meal. I'm not walking into the kitchen looking for a snack in between my meals. I'm head down. I'm working. I'm striving. I'm focused. But I know when the time comes for the next meal, I'm going to eat it. I'm going to fuel my body. I'm going to fuel it right.

You know, I've been on a James Clear kick lately, and I was listening to a conversation and an interview he did with Stephen Bartlett from the podcast, Diary of a CEO. One of the things James Clear said in this podcast interview was that you can't have the outcome without the lifestyle. If you say you have a goal, there's an identity of who you want to become. If your lifestyle, if your behaviors, if your actions, if your habits, don't reflect that identity, that outcome, it's never going to happen. You can't have the outcome without the lifestyle. A lot of people have told me before they want to lose weight. They only lose 20, 30, 40,

50 plus pounds. But their lifestyle, their behaviors, their habits, their routines, their systems do not reflect the outcome they hope and desire to achieve.

So if you're not getting to where you want to be, it's probably because you are not consistent enough with the habits, the daily habits, to get you there. That's the harsh truth. If you're not making progress, it's probably not a goal problem. It's a systems problem. One of the things that James Clear was also talking about in this conversation in this podcast, he said you've got to prime your habits.

This resonated with me so well. prime your habits, prime your systems. I'll give some examples of how I prime some of my habits, my systems. My morning routine, for example. As I told you, I wake up at or before 5 a.m. And I'm running by 5.30 a.m. The night before my run, I lay out all of my stuff that I need.

I lay out my running shorts. My shoes, my socks, my hat. I set my alarm at night before going to bed. As soon as my alarm goes off the next morning, there's a few things I do to prime my habit. That habit is the morning run. I bounce on a bed. I never snooze.

I go straight into the pantry, and I mix up my run fuel, which is one scoop of G1M Sport, one scoop of G1M Sport Plus. I add that to water, I shake it up, and I drink it. That for me, that's the prime to my habit. I'm like, now that I consume my fuel, I have 40 grams of carbohydrates, 700 milligrams of sodium, 150 milligrams of caffeine, and no tropics. There's no turn to back.

I have to go run at 5.30 a.m. no matter what, because I've primed the habit. before I go into my strength training session, I know I'm going to have my pre-training meal at a certain time, about two hours before I work out. And when it's about 40 minutes before going to that training session, I am mixing up my pre-workout. If it's a strength training session, I'm mixing up one scoop of pre, one scoop of pump.

I'll mix it up. I will drink that, like I said, 30 to 40 minutes prior to my training session. That is the prime to my habit. it. The pre-workout meal, the pre-workout supplements, getting in the zone, going to train. These are systems. These are routines. These are habits that set you up to act on that behavior. What do you have to do to prime these habits? A lot of times throughout the week, you know, Steph and I will go back and forth between who makes dinner. And if it's my turn

to make dinner in the evening when I get home from work. I'm a big fan, like I said, of forward thinking and backwards planning. Today is a good example. Tonight for dinner, we're having chicken thighs, we're having sweet potatoes, and we're having brocolini.

So this morning, after a morning run, the kids still didn't wake up. I buy bone-in skin-on chicken thighs because we like the crispy skin on the outside of the chicken thighs. Sometimes. What I like to do is I cut the bones out so it's easier for us to eat it. And the kids really like eating the meat off the bones. So this morning, I cut all the bones out of the bone in, skin on chicken thighs.

I separated the bones with some meat on them from the chicken thighs. Two separate bags. Put those in the fridge. I cut the soup potatoes up, put those in a bag, put them in a fridge. I trim the brocolini, put it in the fridge. So I know now that when I get home from work this evening, prepping for dinner, when the house is chaotic, the kids are running around everywhere, I've set myself up for success.

I've primed the habit. Now our family is going to have a healthy, high-protein, nutrient dense, nourishing meal because the habit was primed by forward thinking and backwards planning. Part of creating habits in routines and systems is having a plan. It's making a plan.

It's scheduling out your day, making time, allocating time for when you're going to act on these habits and then following through. I share this all the time, but I have the same lunch. every day. And there's different seasons where that changes.

You know, every couple months, I'll switch up my meals. My breakfast will change. My lunch will change slightly. My before bed meal will change slightly. Dinner is where we personally have the most variation in our diet. Like last night we had salmon, rice, and asparagus. The night before that, we had chicken salads, arugula, spinach, chicken, tomatoes, tomatoes, cucumber, pumpkin seeds, olives, olive oil, balsamic dressing.

Dinner is always a little different for us. But right now, the last couple of months, my breakfast has been the same. It's been a protein smoothie. My lunch is the same. It's beef and rice. And what I eat before I go to bed is the same. It's dried figs. It's cottage cheese.

It's creek yogurt. It's berries, blueberries. blackberries, raspberries. But right now my lunch is 300 grams of jasmine rice, 8 ounces of 937 ground beef, some primal kitchen's buffalo sauce, some organic ketchup, and pickles. So every couple days I know when I go to the grocery store,

I'm buying 937 ground beef, rice, primal kitchens, buffalo sauce. Every couple days, I'm prepping three pounds of ground beef at a time. I'm putting rice in the rice cooker. I'm weighing out eight ounces of meat, 300 grams of rice. I'm putting them in my meal prep containers, putting them in the fridge. So the next morning, before I go into work, I grab one of those containers out into the fridge. I put in my cooler. I go to work. There's my lunch. I don't require a lot of variation. I can the same thing day in and day out, but I'm setting myself up for success to be more consistent,

to be more consistent with my diet and my nutrition and my caloric intake. The opposite of that is not forward thinking backwards planning, not designing your environment for success, not building out these systems that lead to your goal. And what does that look like? It's not meal prepping. It's waking up with no plan. It's getting in the office, getting right into work, putting your head up, realizing it's 12 p.m.

You're hungry. You don't have any food prepped. So you hop in your car. You drive to the quickest, convenient store, restaurant, fast food chain. You grab something quick, unhealthy. get back to your office, eat on the go, and there you just lost momentum. There was an opportunity which you could have seized, but you didn't because you didn't plan,

prepare, or lean on a system that was leading you towards your goal. There's a lot of things I do day in and day out. An example is my lunch. 300 grams of jasmine rice, 8 ounces of ground beef. Why do I eat this every single day? I know what I got to buy when I go to the grocery store. I know I need to prep every couple days. I know exactly what I'm going to eat for lunch.

It eliminates decision fatigue. It helps me stay on track with my diet, fuels my training, my recovery. There's less to think about so I can spend more time, of the things that actually move the needle in my life. They're going to help me get to my larger goals. Some people could benefit from habit tracking. It's one of the things that James Clear talks about in atomic habits.

Whether this is having a calendar and for every day you work out, you put a check. For every day you stayed on track with your diet. you put a check. Maybe you log into a food logging application on your phone. You log your food. You hit your calorie goals. You hit your macro goals. Habit tracking can be extremely beneficial. But there's also downsides to habit tracking. As James Clear says, the dark side of tracking a particular behavior is that we become driven by the number rather than the purpose behind it. We optimize for what we measure. When we choose the wrong measurement, we get the wrong behavior.

Examples. We care about getting 10,000 steps more than we do about being healthy. Another example. If success is measured by a lower number on the scale, you will optimize. for a lower number on that scale, even if that means embracing crash diets, juice cleanses, and fat loss pills. The human mind wants to win whatever game is being played. So I would encourage you if habit tracking works for you, great. As long as there is a purpose behind the habit, there's a purpose behind tracking that habit. You don't get caught up in just the

measurement and the action of tracking that habit. Certain habits are meant to be abandoned. There are seasons for some habits and that season ends and it's time for a new and different habit. If the purpose of that habit stops serving you, it might be time to adopt and build a new habit. The habits in routines and systems that I had in my life looked different before I had kids compared to my life now, being married with two young kids. The habits, routines, and systems I had before my business is as large as it is now were much different than they are today. So I love

habits. I love systems. I love routines as long as the purpose continues to serve you. And I'm going to end with this. A few years ago, I had my running coach, Jeff Cunningham on the podcast. And something he said not only rung true with me, but so many other people. He said, Nick, it's better to be consistently good rather than occasionally great. When we are consistently good, what that means is that we are building up votes. Just like James Clear and Atomic Habits said, and I referenced this earlier, every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance, that single instance is being occasionally great, will transform your beliefs. But as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.

it's better to be consistently good day in and day out showing up over and over and over again showing up is an action that is a practice that is a process and every time we show up consistently good we get a vote and that vote as they build up and we accumulate more votes that is more evidence of our identity, of who we say we want to become. We want to be healthier. We want to be stronger. We want to be wealthier. We want to be more successful.

We want to be a better husband, a better father. You need the votes to add up to prove to say, you are who you say you want to be. It's better to be consistently good rather than occasionally great. That's how you become more consistent. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Appreciate you guys.

Love you. And as always, go on more.