784.How to Keep Moving Forward: Strategies for Consistent Growth

Let's get it. Welcome to the Marsh Bodies Podcast, and today what we're gonna do is, is we're gonna focus on where you're going and not what you're doing. Where you're going is so important because if you look at what you're doing and solely focus on what you're doing, you're gonna get all crapped out. And so I'm gonna show you how to be consistent every day. See you look at the big picture. The big picture man can be overwhelming for you, which is why most people quit before they even get started. Because looking at all, you look at all forward and you see how far you've gotta go, and you look at all backwards and how far you've slipped. That's why people quit before they even begin, because you get lost in these thoughts of. I gotta get back to the gym. I should start my own business. I need to start my podcast. I need to start a blog. Whatever it is, there are things that you want to do in life and that you've been putting off, but the thing that you gotta realize is, is someday never arrives. So when you look at the entirety of your life, and your past and your future and what you're looking at, You're looking back at, seems so daunting, so unobtainable, remain stagnant. This is why you stay exactly the same. But here's the thing, man, and this is the fallacy to maintaining this is why people, you know, they get stuck and they say, well, I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm doing. It's everything is changing and we know this. Everything changes. Why do you believe that you're gonna maintain? There is no such thing as maintaining. You're either moving the needle and getting better, or you're progressively getting worse. Because see, with the technological advantages, things that are happening out there in the world, things are changing. You're not, your skills are eroding. Your emotional iq, eq, whatever you wanna call it, is eroding. And your purpose, the way that you feel about yourself is only getting worse as well. Everything's depreciating your emotional health, your physical and mental strength. Or just, dude, they're just floating away. And so today what I want to do is, is I wanna help you break this cycle. And this is what I call a five stage plan. Things are simple. Things aren't easy, but they're simple. And so this five stage plan, if you are trying to get outta this rutt and you're trying to accomplish, you know, get back going again, whatever it is that, that, whether it's your health and you're trying to work out whether it's your creatives, Whether you're trying to get your sales back turned around, whether it's a new job that you wanna pursue, school, whatever the case may be, I'm gonna give you this five stage plan and then also show you what my day looks like in six checkpoints, and that way you can start building this consistency. So stage one is to initiate blindly. Just don't even give any narrative to it. Don't even think about it. What I want you to do is I want you to start your journey without obsessing over all of your past failures or all your future challenges. This is how far I gotta go. Oh my God. Look how far, look how far I've slipped. Don't even give a narrative to that. Just your, your first, that you're on stage one. Is just initiate blindly. It's kind of like, you know, when you, like, you go to New Orleans and you, and you get one, you ride one of those carriage rides and the horse, you know, their, their, their eyes are covered, so they can't see what's going on. That's what you have to do on stage one, is you just have to blindly look at everything or blindly not look at anything and just power out. Stage two is, this is my mantra, man, lay the brick. Laying the brick means that every single day, see right up there, that's a brick, and that that is my mantra, that I say every single day, lay the brick. That means I don't have to worry about the whole wall today. I just have to lay this one brick, lay this one brick as perfectly as you can possible by winning the decision. Whatever that decision, that, the immediate decision that's right in front of you, when that one decision, then lay the expert. That's your only job today. Just lay the brick. And so when you get frustrated, when you seem overwhelmed, when it feels like the wall is gonna topple back on top of you, or you feel like that the wall is too high to build, just lay the brick. Lay the brick. So this is showing up every single day, making the right decisions and do not create a deficit. This is super important too. You don't wanna create a deficit, meaning that you make some poor choices, and so the next day you're starting a deficit because you made terrible choices the day before you smashed a case of beer. You killed the buffet at Golden Corral when the decision. The decision is I gotta, okay, I'm at Golden Corral. I'm gonna eat right. I'm gonna find the foods that work best for me. I'm not gonna double up tomorrow. Because see, you'll keep changing the narrative. You'll keep changing things. If you keep doing that, you're gonna forever get worse. You have to draw the line in the sand. The first two weeks are probably the hardest, and then after that, it just becomes that rhythm. All we're trying to do right now is just win one decision at a time. Don't worry about all. Just focus on next stage three, embrace the change. This is where things are gonna start changing for you because you've shown up, you don't put any narrative to it, and because you're just laying the brick and you're building that consistency because you're maintaining the commitments. What changes the way that you feel about yourself because you're keeping commitments finally. You're keeping commitments to yourself, your loved ones. See that you're keeping commitments to yourself, and so your perception of yourself improves. It's an inside out game. You don't get validated by other people. It's an inside out because you're laying the brick, because you're consistent, because you're keeping commitment. That outward energy becomes attractive. People are like, oh, he is not f o s anymore. You are not full of shit, you are holding those commitments and this is what's gonna build this momentum for you. And this is what begins to change the narrative for you as well. Stage four, this is where you're gonna chase the effort. I love this stage right here. So at first you were just doing, now that you've embraced the change and your narrative is starting to change, This is that piss and vinegar stage. This is where you start chasing the effort and chasing the effort is where every day, man, you strive to outdo the performance from the previous day. And so what you're doing is it's like, oh yeah, I had a good one yesterday. You showed up even on the days that you didn't feel like doing and you still got it done. See, on those days, these are, those are, those are more important than the days you really feel like going. The days you feel like going, well, you feel like going, but what about the days you don't feel like going? The days you don't feel like going are so much more important because you still do it and you get it done. Even if you, here's, here's the thing I always stress, even if you have to adjust the pace, don't quit the race. So the day I don't feel like going, I'm gonna double up tomorrow. No, you show up anyway. Your pace may be slower. It may take you longer. You're really kind of dialing it in. You're going through the motions, but you got it done. Done is better than said stage five. This is where you created a lifestyle. I don't like goals. If you're setting a goal, then what happens when you achieve the goal? Not that you shouldn't set a goal. The goal is the power. Okay? This is the thing that is the fuel, okay? Your lifestyle is the destination. Two, they need one another. So it's not like you just blindly know you have the goals. That gives you some direction, okay? That gives you the fuel. I know where I'm heading. These are points on the map, but they're not the end all, be all. That is not the, the goal is not the destination. The lifestyle is because here's the thing, you're constantly, a lifestyle is forever. You're constantly. Tweaking it. You're constantly raising the bar, you're constantly evolving, and as you do that, you create the style of the life that you want to have. Alright, so let me tell you what, my six daily habits, I have what I call six checkpoint. This is how I maintain my consistency, and so these six checkpoints are what I go through every single day. Number one, wake up at a set time every day. Whatever works in your schedule, stop. Changing all the time. One day you're waking up at nine another day you're waking up at three another day. You're waking up at five set time that you can commit to every single day, even if it's a range. If you say four to four 30, no soon, but I'm gonna get up at four to four 30. If it's five to five 30, if it's six to six 30, whatever segment that you put aside. But you've gotta put in enough time to take care of these other things for you as well. Okay? That I'm gonna go through here in just a second because, so you gotta build in enough margin on that. Okay? So wake up at a set time. Number two, write one page daily. It's so important that you write and not type, 'cause you're gonna self-censor, but if you write one page every single day, you're gonna empty your mind. It's important that you play empty minded, not absent-minded. Absent-minded means you. You're playing with a full mind. Empty minded means you're pouring all of whatever's on your mind. Doesn't matter what it is. This is what I'm talking to you today, is what I wrote about today. Fresh off the cuff, straight off the banana boat. Here you go. Write one page every day. This will empty out your thoughts. It'll make you more perceptive. Open to what's going on out there in the world. And many times, dude, lemme tell you which trip you're gonna write about something and then you're gonna get out there in today, what's today, Thursday. You're gonna get out there in today and then all of a sudden you're gonna pick up something and you're like, holy cow, I just wrote about that. So write one page every day. I'm telling you. It's gonna change your world. Writing saved my life and it's not writing because I had a podcast episode to do. Writing actually helped me clarify my thoughts, unspool my thoughts. It helps me think quicker. It helps me think clear and speak better as well. So there's so many intangible benefits. People don't even realize what writing is all about.'cause they think of writing, then they get something outta a book. You don't have to write a book. You may write a book one day. You know what you probably should, at the very least you make a book. You create a book. So your kids have something and your grandkids have something to realize, oh, okay. I didn't know who he really was. There are things about my dad that I never knew, and it's only as I've gotten older that I've been able to ask him questions. What if he wasn't here today and I wasn't able to ask those questions. Had he written a book? I could have looked in those things. And so that may be, that's a whole nother tangent. But anyway, I haven't written a book yet either, so I'm not gonna sit there and go on that. The third thing that I maintain my consistency every day. So number one, wake up at a set time every day. Write one page every day. I, I do it before I go to the gym. It didn't work well for me when I worked out and came back because a lot of times I was tired. Do whatever works for you. Number three, exercise. You gotta go work out, man. You got to. I'm not a big advocate of working out at home because it's too easy for me to go in and start watching TV in between sets and then I get lost. So I like to go places where I'm away from the house and that way, okay, I am here. Lemme get it. Let me get it done. So exercise. I do 80 to 90 minutes a day, hour and 20 minutes is really what I set my time aside, 10 minutes on the, on the, the jump rope. Then I go work out and I finish with a 10 minute run on the treadmill. Sometimes I go outside telling you, send me on that. I, I do challenge you to do this first thing in the morning. If you work out first thing in the morning, that is a guaranteed win for you. Working out in the evening at the end of the day, should be more so of a bonus. Again, do what works for you. But I'm just telling you, man, if you put yourself, if it's a way of putting yourself first, when you put yourself first, everybody gets the best representation of you. Number four, spend 10 minutes reading from I. I don't read a book cover to cover. I don't think that you have to read a book cover to cover. So here's what I'll do is I'll pick a random book off the shelf. I'll just grab it. I'll open up the table of content. I find a chapter that seems most interesting for the season that I'm in that morning, and I read that one chapter or set your timer for 10 minutes and read. There's too many books out there. Number one, that you gotta get bogged down in one book. And number two, this is what keeps things spicy and I don't get all bogged down in it. I just pick another book. This is like phenomenal, dude, because you can pick any book or read this because most of the books that you read, even if you read 'em cover to cover, you're gonna, you're gonna remember like 10% of it. You ain't gonna remember much at all. So you might as well just pick a chapter and you'll remember that one chapter and then go to apply it to your life today also. So that's your 10 minute reading. If it's five minutes of works for you, whatever. But. Reading out of a physical book is important because what it's gonna do is it's going to increase your focus and really kind of slow down some of that. A D D, that erratic. I know some of you right now are probably looking online as you're listening to me. My point. Exactly. So that is that. And then when you're at the gym and you're working out Habit Stack, Listen to a book summary, listen to an audiobook, listen to, and I do that with audiobook. I'll pick one chapter, I have audiobook and go to another one. I have, well, I have Audible, so I have hundreds of audiobooks in there. I'll just read one chapter or listen to one chapter. So habit, stat, while you're working out, you're learning from podcasts, whatever. I don't really, unless you have the YouTube premium where you can turn off the screen and, and still listen to the content. If you have the screen on, then you're gonna get sucked in by that screen and then all the other suggestions on the side, and you're probably not gonna get around to it. Number four, way I stay consistent and purposeful. Share something. Lemme tell you something. Everybody is an expert at something. Everybody is an expert at some. Some of you are experts in health and fitness. Some of you are experts at making 10 minute meals. Some of you are experts at negotiating in sales. Some of you're experts at parenting, whatever. Everybody's an expert. Here's what makes you an expert. It's not looking like that guy right there, okay? It's not so well when I, when I'm make his kind of money, then I'm gonna be expert. No, an expert means. Have you brought results in your own life? If the answer's yes, have you seen those results, then teach it.'cause lemme tell you something, you may not be where you want to be, but you're further along than the guy behind you, and that guy needs to hear from you. So teach it. Number six, plan your meals and then plan what you're gonna wear. Number one, planning your meals. This will keep the fatness away. Know what you're gonna eat. That way you're not emotionally subjecting yourself to eating bad. A bunch of snacks, all that crap. The other thing, playing what you're gonna wear that day. I lay this out the night before. I know what I'm wearing to the gym. So as soon as I jump off of this, I'm going to the gym. Also, I plan what I'm gonna wear that day as well. It seems like it's 45 seconds. Oh, I, I, I pretty much know what I'm gonna wear. It's all about creating the discipline and the efficiencies. I make my coffee the night before. That way the timer comes on, so that way when I roll out of the bedroom, I'm putting on my clothes, I'm weighing in, I'm getting the coffee, it's already made. Boom, boom, boom. Okay. It doesn't seem like that, that you're saving a lot of time, but over time it's massive, man, because you're gonna start creating that discipline in other areas as well. So that's the sixth thing. The thing that you've gotta remember is you gotta focus on the direction where you're heading and not necessarily what you're doing. What you're doing right now, especially when you're first starting. Dude, that can crap you out. So just focus on where you're heading. Just ask yourself, am I heading in the right direction? Is it fully aligned with the lifestyle I wanna create? And if the answer is yes, keep going. If the answer is no, then make the slight adjustments and keep moving forward. If you want more details on how to maintain your consistency, go to my website, marsh by.com. That's my name, M A R S H B U I C E. Also be sure and subscribe to my YouTube channel and also the Marsh Bys podcast, which thankfully is top 3% podcast in the world. That's just doing, man. I started in 2017. I was at the bottom rung in the LA on, on the ladder. I was, I started my podcast in a closet with a cell phone dude, and now it's the top 3% podcast in the world. I get people from all over the world that, that send me messages. I'm like, How from Lake Charles, Louisiana, little 80,000 town, uh, 80,000 people here in town. And I got people from other cultures and countries saying, man, I appreciate this episode, and name was that episode, dude, what I did three or four years ago. I'm like, I have to go listen to that one. I don't even remember what it is. That's the power man. That's the power that you possess as well. You're just putting stuff out there because the content that I create, I. Yes, I want it to help others, but it's more so to help myself. This is what I'm doing right here is therapy for me. This right here is how I strengthen my consistency because I'm telling you how I've done it. You can go to my Instagram wall and see my before and after pictures and only 90 days, but it was about that consistency and I've developed these six steps, and now I teach that. That's what I teach. Mental toughness, sailing your NTDs. How you do that. So if you want more on that, go to marsh vice.com. Love to have you on the podcast or love for you to tune into the podcast and also check out the YouTube channel. Also, if you got, uh, value outta this, share it with someone else. If anything, tell 'em what section to go to, what minute. Five minutes in. 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