Someone gives you an axe and tells you to cut down a tree... What's gonna get you there nine times out of ten? –– Hard work, talent, or consistency?

All three are useful, but consistency is the great equalizer.

You don't have to be better, more talented, or harder working. You have to be insanely consistent.

Showing up and putting in the reps day after day, when no one else would, yields tremendous results.

The hard worker shows up chopping the tree with all his effort, exhausts himself, and takes a couple of days off.

The talented man shows up when he feels like it, knowing he's better, resting on his talent.

The consistent man shows up day after day, rain or shine, and chips away at his goal.

Like the turtle and the hare, consistent unyielding action will get you to the finish line first, even if it doesn't feel that way.

Having all three is ideal. Hard work and consistency is unstoppable. But if you can't work hard, be consistent.

Show up and chip away at your goal. Just one step forward every day.

I'll leave you with this quote:

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it but all that had gone before."

Until next time.

J.