Consistency is the hidden engine behind every great success story. Through personal anecdotes and relatable stories, we explore how maintaining core values and behaviors amidst life's changes can foster stability and dependability, from the dedication of athletes and musicians to the trust built in relationships.
Discover the crucial role that consistency plays in various aspects of life, from workplace performance to personal health. Learn why showing up on time and maintaining a standard in training methods can safeguard job security, and see how brands like McDonald's achieve global success through uniformity in product quality and service. Whether it's nurturing personal relationships, raising children, or establishing healthy habits, consistent actions are key to long-term well-being and growth. Plus, get inspired to begin your journey towards success with resources like my book "Slaying Your Dragons: Living the Life You Always Wanted" and additional content available on platforms like Apple, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. Join me for an inspiring conversation that emphasizes the unwavering power of consistent action.
Consistency is the hidden engine behind every great success story. Through personal anecdotes and relatable stories, we explore how maintaining core values and behaviors amidst life's changes can foster stability and dependability, from the dedication of athletes and musicians to the trust built in relationships.
Discover the crucial role that consistency plays in various aspects of life, from workplace performance to personal health. Learn why showing up on time and maintaining a standard in training methods can safeguard job security, and see how brands like McDonald's achieve global success through uniformity in product quality and service. Whether it's nurturing personal relationships, raising children, or establishing healthy habits, consistent actions are key to long-term well-being and growth. Plus, get inspired to begin your journey towards success with resources like my book "Slaying Your Dragons: Living the Life You Always Wanted" and additional content available on platforms like Apple, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. Join me for an inspiring conversation that emphasizes the unwavering power of consistent action.
Hello, this is Living your Success 24-7 with Michael Caine in the house. Hello in the house, that's right. Well, I have to confess, today is a special day for me. Honor my parents for having me X number of years ago. It's my birthday and it was a great day, day with my wife, lovely wife treated me to a movie, to a nice lunch, nice dessert, to walk around a lake. Oh, it was exceptional, exceptional day. And all the family and friends texting, messaging, telling me you're wishing me a happy birthday. So don't you feel special on your birthday? You should. Hopefully you do too, when it's your part, when it's your time, but anyway, so I it um necessary to have a podcast on my birthday. So I will never forget this podcast. It's on my birthday. I don't think I ever did a podcast on my birthday. So, um, something new.
Speaker 1:
Well, let's get, let's get to it, let's jump right in the power of consistency. I just love that phrase. The first power. It gives you, it emanates strength, it gives you this vision of invincibility uh, take no prisoners. Uh, victory, success, power of consistency.
Speaker 1:
And what do we? What do I mean by consistency? Well, when you look it up, there's various definitions, but they all have one central theme, something, something that you see over and over again the quality of always behaving or performing in a similar way. So when you see a sports team and they're on it, they're all connected, they're all in sync. It's the power of that consistency of their training. They're practicing their sport whatever sport could be basketball, football, soccer or or golf, tennis where they practice every day, two, three hours a day, five hours a day. To practice could be a musician practicing to get to learn an instrument, or practicing a song to rehearse over and over so they get it right.
Speaker 1:
That's what consistency is about and that's different from saying, well, the argument against that it would be a false argument about well, don't you grow? Are you always the same person? Are you, do you always do the same things? Where's the consistency in that? That's not what we're talking about. Of course, when you're five years old, you have a certain personality and a skill set and emotional capability. Then when you're 15, and then when you're 30, then when you're 50, 60, 80, hopefully, you're not the same person. So we're not talking about that, but our core system, our core beliefs, could be consistent, true, even though our voice changes our weight, our height, our complexion, our knowledge, you know, and so our ambition.
Speaker 1:
I can go on and on about that. So, yeah, depending on what point in time you take back, you look at your history of growing up and aging. Yeah, you're not the same person, but I'm still the core. Michael cain I was decades ago, last year. I'm still. My core is to be and do my best to be a good person to help people. That is consistent with how I was raised and how I conducted my life throughout the periods of my growing older, developing so power of consistency.
Speaker 1:
You know this topic could be applied in different categories. We're going to touch on a few. Let's talk about relationships. Um, I always you will always hear me well, not always, but probably periodically talk about relationships because that's so core to our being, to our lives. Okay, we have relationships with family and various levels of family, categories of family mothers, fathers, siblings, cousins, right Aunts, uncles to our friends, our besties, acquaintances, our significant others, or would be significant others. You know different types of relationships and you want we're looking for consistency in those relationships.
Speaker 1:
What if you had a flaky friend? We all had them. Raise your hands I can't see your hand raised, but we all had them where you say, hey, let's do something friday. Friday comes, you don't hear from them. Then you hear from sunday sorry man, I'm sorry, or they just forgot about you. Stood you up, you meet somewhere. They didn't show up. We're just talking. A alleged friend or someone, uh, borrowed money from you, say, say hey, man, I'll pay you back. And you say you lend them money for the last 10 years and they always pay you back, like they say, but this time they didn't pay you back, didn't say anything. They ghosted you, gas lit you or whatever you call it, and no longer consistent.
Speaker 1:
We rely on consistency, by the way, we really do. Let's handle a significant other. Okay, can you imagine your profile on tinder or match that come. Let's say, you're recruiting, you don't even have a relationship yet. You're looking, you're looking, you want a date, you want to get someone so you can have a serious relationship or just whatever. And in the description of matchcom or or tinder or any one of the number of 30, 40 dating sites is out there. You put in there unreliable, may or may not be working while dating, may or may not be able to pay for lunch or dinner, uh, because for whatever reason, it's like you're not going to be running to that person. Right, there's no consistency.
Speaker 1:
Uh, first of employment, you know, uh, I've been unemployed, but uh, and so the we all, most of us, have, right, you're unemployed till you get their first job right and the second job right, third job and so. But so it's understood and expected that you're going to find another job and you're going to look, you're going to increase your knowledge, skills, go to school or go to learning new things, to uh, to earn more money, increase your income and your, etc. And uh, and that's uh expected. When you're looking for a significant other, you don't want to be the only one working or another one's playing video games all day. Right, maybe they're consistent, just playing video games. Why are you going to work and you come home, they're still playing video games. No dinner, no, nothing, don't didn't clean up the house or anything. So that's not a desirable quality in a significant other.
Speaker 1:
Uh, in terms of you know it's a lack of consistency. So you're looking for someone you could rely on that, day in, day out, they're there, they're supportive, emotionally and physically, financially, right, we all look for that consistency. Can you imagine Monday, you know, everything's fine, and Tuesday, it's drama, wednesday it's fine, thursday that's turmoil or hell. You can call that hell, hell on earth, no consistency. So you know, this isn't a hard argument that I need to make. I'm sure most normal people would agree with me that they look for consistency in other people, whoever other people are.
Speaker 1:
So, with a significant other, a child, we raise our children to be consistent. They have a, you know, depending on their age, they have a certain bedtime and maybe you have something special on friday or saturday for the weekend, but for the most part during school week. There they go to bed and say nine o'clock, ten o'clock or eight o'clock, whatever their age and um, and their homework is done by a certain time, then they clean up the room by a certain time. There's an order of your madness, right, as a parent, and that's the power of consistency. And you're training, grooming your child, children, uh, to be able to be independent one day. That's our role as parents, and I'm a parent. It's where our children become productive adults, giving back to society in so many ways and first being productive economically to their own family. So we do look for the power of consistency in that regard. So if any of my listeners are having problems with being consistent in what we're talking about today, then please seek out some help, get a coach, read some books.
Speaker 1:
It's about discipline. Discipline is our gateway for consistency. Discipline day in, day out. And so somebody that's reliable, someone you can rely on, your dying ride buddy, that is there for you and you're there for them. That's the power of consistency. So it's desirable and it's undesirable if you don't have it. The discipline. We call them lazy bums. We call them people with no vision, mission or purpose, floating with the wind, not desirable. If you're like like that, you got to change that saying. You know there's no guarantee for absolute success in the way you envision it, but you have to be disciplined, you have to show consistency.
Speaker 1:
How about consistency in the workplace? I've been a boss, been a boss of employees, independent contractors, teachers, other custodians, people with technical skills. I've been a boss in a hiring. I've hired I don't know. Over the years I've hired a whole lot of people and I've terminated quite a few. Not as many as I hired, thank God.
Speaker 1:
But when someone let's say an employee, the expectation that can start power of consistency with an employee is that they report to work on a timely manner. Let's say, we hired you at 8 am to 5 pm. Well, dang it. When I look up, you better be there, sit in the chair at 8 o'clock, right. Every day, 8 o'clock. We pay you every day to be there at 8 o'clock. That's consistency. What if you had an employee you hired from 8 to start at 8 o'clock? They start coming in at 8.10, 8.30, 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, leave at 3.30, 4 o'clock, they're supposed to work till 5. Well, that's an employee that needs to be counseled and ultimately terminated if they don't immediately correct that behavior.
Speaker 1:
So we do look for consistency in our employees. And also our consistency is how we train employees to do the job we hire them to do, how we train employees to do the job we hire them to do. So the training plan has to be consistent, that each trainee, each new hire, learns the same thing the same way. Right doesn't mean we don't tweak the plan when we find there's an error or something that doesn't make sense or needs to be changed. We change it. So but we look for consistency in how we deliver the training. That means the trainers have to be trained in a certain way, in a mold.
Speaker 1:
Let's look at McDonald's Classic example of franchise Quarter Pounder in Japan is a Quarter Pounder in hell name. Another city, italy, los Angeles, california, san Francisco, germany. They train their folks, their employees, their franchisees, to cook clean train in a consistent manner, in a pre-made format. So it's high quality, consistency around the world. You get me.
Speaker 1:
So that's what we need to be doing with our lives. Not that we should be robots talking about artificial intelligence that's a whole nother topic in robotics, just people. We need to be consistent in our lives and it helps grounds us, because if every day was different, that'd be kind of chaos. If we live that way, if our stores, you know, okay, yesterday cost you 18 and then tomorrow it's 48 and the next day is eight dollars, obviously we'll be like glad if they reduce the price but not increase it. Right, that's how we are. So there's consistency in pricing training. So there's consistency in pricing training, attendance.
Speaker 1:
And you know what consistency means Showing up. It's just nice if you just show up. It's unfortunate. The bar has been lowered where we're just looking for people that breathe and show up. Okay, now, that's great. We want you to breathe, we want you to show up and you will stand out from the crowd if you just be um receptive and you practice consistency by showing up when you're expected and performing the job as you were trained, and you work on yourself to improve your knowledge and abilities right. So the power of consistency is is important. It's a concept. It's not just a concept. It's something that you need to do.
Speaker 1:
So from the workplace we just talked about. We talked about relationships, and you say you own your own business. You would apply it in your product quality manufacturing, or if you create or if you resource out the ingredients and you want high quality. You want consistency. That means you have to have a vision and a profile of what the perfect product looks like, or what you expect in a relationship and in life itself. In a school that you're considering to go to one of five schools, you're looking for what would be purposeful, meaningful in your situation. And so same thing with child gonna take us back to child rearing. You wanna definitely be consistent there, because that's how you raise and develop and grow children to be productive adults, especially if you have a significant other we know there's single parents out there and I'll single parent at one point where it's good you, if you have to, to help you know.
Speaker 1:
But to be consistent among your children, say one or three or four consistency. Everyone has different personalities, but you don't want to favor one or the other and discriminate against one child for another. All of them are equal in terms of how you give love and how you help them financially, things of that nature. And so, um, consistency is is is a way to say we need to take some action here and it needs to be familiar action, consistent. Same way with uh, let's introduce money, the household budget, yeah, how we earn our living and spend and save and invest and where's the money going, where's it coming in from and where's it going out? Are you paying yourself first, like 401k or roth, ira or some investments? Right, that's where consistency will help you too.
Speaker 1:
Consistent, saving and investing every month, year after year after year after year, how you become wealthy by not even opening a business or being rich or super intelligent. You're just consistent. That's the consistency and the compounding earnings and interest that you earn, the monies on top of your monies, earning and doubling and tripling over time. That's how people regular people that aren't superstars, celebrities or Olympian athletes aren't making a lot of money, but yet they have a lot of money 20, 30 years later. Why? Because they're consistently saving, spending, yes, and investing, but what does it all matter if you don't have your health? Let's say your health sucks because you're not eating properly, you're not exercising.
Speaker 1:
So there's consistency and this is one of my areas that I am seriously need to work on. Got a gym membership, but are you going to the gym? Okay, I'm going gonna do that. Um, whether it's gym or at home, gonna the routine. The consistency is getting in shape, eating better by doing it, not talking about it. Three, four days a week on exercise and every day I'm going to watch what I'm eating and that'll be consistent behavior and monitoring monitoring what I put in my mouth and how I exercise my body. Get more sleep and just do it. No more excuses, just do it. No more excuses, just do it.
Speaker 1:
A lot of people waited too late and it's too late. When it's too late, it's too late. Don't do that. So do something. Have a plan, get out of bed, show up, make a commitment, be consistent in your commitment that you're a stand-up person. When you say you're gonna do something, you do it.
Speaker 1:
Consistent, you have your goals, create your goals and measure how you and identify milestones so you could celebrate Run a lap, a victory lap right. So identify steps, accomplishments that are required and work on a plan. To be consistent, to do it doesn't have to be complicated. A lot of people have these complicated things and all they do is just do it, do it, dang it, get up, learn from your mistakes. Don't give up, though, when something's not going right. See a lot of people don't make it, though when something's not going right. See a lot of people don't make it and aren't successful because they give up as soon as it gets difficult. Lord, I can't do it. Maybe you can't today to show up again tomorrow. Keep doing it and have realistic goals to you know, you know I'm I don't know what pie in the sky, but I'm not you know.
Speaker 1:
You know your abilities and where you need to go and what things you need to learn, how to get that knowledge and that skill. So reframe your thoughts. Some of you are jumbled up in a head where your thoughts are all scrambled up. You got to unscramble them and make consistent, positive optimism. There's light at the end of the tunnel. So thoughts when all seems hopeless. The sun is rising and it will rise again. Be your own cheerleader. Confide in someone you trust that holds you accountable. So when you say stuff, they can say, hey, I thought you were going to do that Wednesday. They're going to hold you down to being consistent. Training workers, training yourself, children. So all of these things are a product of the power of consistency. And so do something. Just start off small and do it, and then do it again and do it again.
Speaker 1:
You have to educate yourself, like you know, if you're not saving or investing enough money, pick a book or watch. You got some nice youtube channels and books out there, even my show, uh, here, uh, we talk about money, we talk about motivation and getting off the butt and doing things, taking action, my, my shows and my articles, my newsletters. Dealing with my newsletter is called catalyst. I am slowly getting it off the ground. See, I'm a work in progress with being consistent on that, consistently writing, and my time is so stretched then, and and but I said, okay, I'm gonna build my newsletter up from a monthly to a weekly at some point, so, um, but it's called catalyst for the k catalyst to get that, to ignite you, to get you going. And so, uh, please sign up.
Speaker 1:
Um, on my website is livingyoursuccesscom. Uh, you'll see a link to catalyst newsletter and uh and I uh hope you you tell your family and friends share it and also got nice articles that I'm writing self-serving, huh. But. And also I have a book on Amazon slaying your dragons living the life you always wanted. But, michael Caine, k and E, you can get the paperback it. It's a real good price, an e-book version as well, and a hard book too, but affordable, most affordable is the paperback. So I encourage you to do that and share that.
Speaker 1:
So I appreciate you listening to me now on Apple and Spotify, iheartradio, amazon Music and various other platforms. Excuse me if I don't name them all, but I'm on several platforms. So I appreciate you taking the time to listen and my goal, whether it's my podcast, newsletter or book, is to help you just start Start. I'm like a venture capitalist with motivation to get you to get going to wherever that dream, to whatever that goal, whatever the life purpose is, to identify that so you stop floating in the wind like a feather. So, anyway, but remember the power of consistency, show up and do it. So that said, folks, I really appreciate you taking the time. Listen me until we meet again. This is Michael Caine, with living your success 24, 7 adios amigos.
