In thia episode, Scott Becker explores the power of consistency and intentionality across different areas of life.
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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion revolves around consistency in your efforts. And I think this is just a great topic and so meaningful. What I have found through life that certain areas, it's really easy for me to be consistent day in, day out.
In some ways, these might be the areas that you're naturally focused on, that you're naturally sort of comfortable with and so forth. So when it comes to my writing every day and those kinds of things, I find it really easy to be consistent.
In other parts of life, I think this is probably the case for most of us, trying to improve my diet, my fitness, my golf, my tennis, multiple other things, trying to give daily good guidance to my children without being overbearing and annoying. Trying to find that consistency can be so challenging.
I generally plug along in the right direction, but I do feel like if I was one bit more intentional and clear about really developing the plan, here's what I'm trying to do, here's how I'm trying to do it, I would be much more consistent about some of these things. In contrast, I find myself sometimes going through when fits and starts.
So I'll go through long periods of time where I'm really working on my golf game, really working at it, where I'm really good about my training, really good about my water, really good about my diet. Then I'll go through periods of times where I'm not as good. And I would say that in terms of overall judging,
At the situation I'm at, the level I'm at, stuff like that, I give myself an A- on my consistency. A, consistency at work, writing, doing things I have to do, investing in those kinds of things. Not that I do them that well, but I'm very consistent about them. And then the second level things that are more sort of the sports, the hobbies, and all those kinds of things.
And just I'd say I'm pretty consistent about them, but I'm not as consistent about the intentionality and the real focus of them, which would make them perform at a higher level with them. I'd say similarly with the children, a fantastic job, an A, A- trying to stay connected and And then probably a P in trying to stay very intentional in how I do so.
So as you look at this, and I think I use this as a lens, myself as a microcosm, only because I think everyone can relate to it in some ways or another. And I do feel part of the trick for me would be to be more intentional about things. Like I know when I'm practicing my tennis at my best, I'm going to every practice with an intention. Here's what I'm really working at.
Here's what I'm really trying to get better at. And other times we're just out there hitting and the hitting is fine. It's good exercise. It's moving around. It's all those things, but it's nowhere near as good for improvement and actually getting better. And it's very similar with the golf practice, the fitness.
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