The Pathway To Your Results
Hosted by Derick “DG” Grant, this weekly show guides you through the powerful intersection of mindset, spirituality, and performance. DG unpacks how to break free from limiting beliefs, heal your inner child, and align energetically with your greatest vision. Through personal stories, practical exercises, and metaphysical insights, each episode offers you a clear path to unlocking your potential and living a life of true freedom, joy, and abundance.
The Pathway To Your Results
Get To The R.A.C.
Derick shares a powerful formula for achieving consistent results in any area of life by mastering three essential energies: resilience, accountability, and consistency. He explains how developing these three interconnected forces creates unstoppable momentum toward your goals and unlocks your inherent greatness.
• Resilience means getting back up no matter what happens and becoming unshakable through adversity
• The only way to develop resilience is through challenges - it's impossible to build this muscle in comfort
• Accountability represents radical ownership and the inability to blame others or make excuses
• Your results in life are directly tied to your level of accountability
• Consistency is about showing up even when it's difficult, boring, or doesn't seem to be working
• Consistency compounds over time and eventually becomes your habitual foundation
• All three elements must work together - skip one and the entire system collapses
• Start small by focusing on one consistent action to build momentum
• Greatness isn't external - it's already within you waiting to be developed
• When you show up for yourself consistently, the universe responds by showing up for you
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Once you see what you actually are, that you're an infinite, limitless being, you'll see that nothing exists outside of you. I'm your host, derek Grant, and this is the Pathway to your Results Podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pathway to Results. It is your fellow brethren DG. No, I'm just kidding y'all, you know it's me. Welcome back, listen, we're going to do an episode today. I am so unbelievably excited to share this with you. Here's why Because this is a formula, this is an energy, this is a frequency to help you on your journey, to help you with your nonlinear growth.
Speaker 1:So I told you the episode last. I told you the last episode when I was, you know, working my son out and teaching him the subtle nuances of this thing that we call growth and showing him that it's challenging at times and that there's adversity that will bestow itself upon him. So through this journey, I started to tell him and a lot of times he probably looks at it like I'm ranting, like, oh, here you go. He just ran, he just going on, I'm like constantly in teach mode. Right, teach, teach. And I told him. I said, look, buddy, there's three things that you're going to need, and I'm not talking about with basketball I'm talking about, like with life, three things. Okay, I want you to get a pen. Okay, so we have this saying right now in basketball for those of us who don't know because I know that not everybody is in the world of basketball but we call the basket a lot of different things. Sometimes we call it a hoop, we call it a basket, sometimes we call it a rack. For this purpose, we'll call it the rack. Okay, so, as a coach and you're a timeout and you tell your players like, hey, you got to touch the paint because the paint is where teams are most vulnerable and the paint represents us as well. It breaks down from the inside. So a defense will break down from the inside out. So this is why we always want to get the ball to the paint.
Speaker 1:So I tell my kids, I tell the players I work with attack the paint, attack the paint, get to the rack, get to the rack. So I was telling my son. I said look, here's a metaphor, here's a. Is it a metaphor? Maybe it's an acronym. Sorry, an acronym, here's an acronym Get to the rack. Rack. R-a-c, r-a-c. These are the three energies that will be needed for you along your journey. R-a-c the R stands for resilience, the A stands for accountability, the C stands for consistency. If you have these three energies, there will be nothing that will stop you from creating your life exactly the way that you desire. And if I'm not speaking to your spirit, I will go ahead and get off right now.
Speaker 1:Resiliency what does it mean to be resilient? We've talked about this before. We've done an episode on resilience. Resilience means no matter what, I'm going to get back up. No matter what I'm going to get back up. No matter what I'm going to get back up, I'm not going to back down. I may lose, I may get punched in the mouth, I may lose teeth, but guess what? You're going to have to knock out all my teeth because I'm going to get right back up again.
Speaker 1:Resiliency is really you understanding that it's never really about whether you failed or you fell short or you fall. It's about you focusing all of your energy on getting back up again. It's about you becoming unshakable when you do get knocked down. It's about you saying you becoming unshakable when you do get knocked down. It's about you saying, damn, this is really hard, but I know that this is preparing me for the next iteration. That's going to be a little bit more challenging. Oh my goodness, this is really tough for me, but you know what I realized? Oh my goodness, this is my opportunity. This is my opportunity to grow.
Speaker 1:And here's the beauty about resilience. Resilience compounds Meaning every time that you overcome something, every time that you get back up your capacity to expand, to be more resilient, to take on bigger challenges, to take on bigger adversity. Why do you think, when we did the episode, what was it called? New Levels, new Devils? Y'all remember that episode. You remember that At new levels there's new devils because you have a different level of resiliency. If I have more resiliency, I have a bigger capacity to deal with the bullshit when it comes to me.
Speaker 1:So when we start to think about it like this we bend but we don't break. We bend but we don't break. And then here's the deal you ready, you become stronger in bending. So here's the hard part, though and I say hard, I say it in air quotes the hard part about it is the only way, good God, almighty, the only way, the only way, the only way, the only way you can become more resilient is to be forged in the fire.
Speaker 1:All right, let me go ahead and stop, because I don't think anybody trying to hear what I'm saying right now. I don't think you understand what I'm saying. You can't develop resiliency and comfortability. You can't learn how to be resilient when everything is handed to you. You can't learn how to be resilient when you've never had to get back up on your own. So this is what happens a lot of times when we go through these things that we call midlife crises. Is it crises or is it crises? I don't know? Well, you know I've been known to make up words on here. You know that they don't act like it's the first time. Right, we'll just say crises for the sake of the podcast.
Speaker 1:But when you realize that I can't be comfortable and develop my muscle resiliency this is why, in a midlife crisis, it's the crumbling of something, because usually what happens, there's another level of resiliency that you have to get to. I'm telling you right now, 36 years, 37 years old, when I went through this crumbling, this sacred wound, I lost everything. I didn't know who I was. I had to develop my own perspective, my own paradigm, my own program. The old ones that I had didn't work anymore. I had to develop my own mindset around money and my own mindset around myself and self-concept and what I was capable of and what I believed I could do. I had to do this for myself, but the only way for me to do this for myself was to do it myself. Could nobody else do it, and for the longest.
Speaker 1:If I'm being truthful and honest and raw, I always expected somebody else to help me and do it for me, and that's when life said nah, brother, we ain't going to do it like this anymore. You're going to have to figure it out, because you're going to use your own muscle of resiliency to get to the top of the mountain where you want to go. You can't use somebody else's muscle of resilience for you to build your life. Hear me when I say this. Write it down, get it tattooed, take a picture. I don't give a, I don't care what you got to do to remember this. You will not use somebody else's muscle of resilience for you to get to where you want to be in life. It's going to have to be you. So here's the deal. The universe is like yo, you got to develop this muscle, so I got to help you, so I got to give you these things called. What do they call them? What do you guys call them Setbacks? I got to give you hardship, I got to give you struggle. I got to go ahead and put this in your life and all it is. It ain't nothing but some weight for your soul. That's all. That's all it is. I'm just throwing a little bit more on the bar.
Speaker 1:Anybody ever worked out with anybody? Has anybody ever had a personal trainer? I never had a personal trainer in the weight room. I hired a personal trainer who was a boxer. Now, when I tell you this man, I'm going to be honest, he was crazy, I don't know how else to say it. If you be honest, this one, he was crazy, I'm gonna. He was crying. I was just saying, if you listen to it, aaron, you was crazy tomorrow. He was crazy.
Speaker 1:You was putting me through workouts, hit me on the head, I got the headgear. I got a mouthpiece that's too big for my mouth. I just came here to work on my cardio. You over here, beating the dog mess out of me. I'm like yo. One day I tell him like yo, aaron, I'm not trying to be in the golden gloves, I just came here to increase my heart rate. Bro, what are you doing. He had me doing. He had me with a uh, it was like a 30 pound medicine ball, if you can visualize this. I had the medicine ball. Mind you, I got boxing gloves on with the mouthpiece so I can't even breathe. He had me holding this 30 pound ball against the wall, so I'm like wedging against the wall and I'm using my other hand to uppercut it and that's what I had to man.
Speaker 1:It was for like 10 minutes and I'm like yo, I'd never been so sore in my life and I was telling my son this, cause he's like man, this is hard. I said you ain't. No, not you Lucky, I didn't pass you off to Aaron. If I would have passed you off to Aaron, you wouldn't even you think this is Alice's Wonderland. But here's what I do, here's what I will say with Aaron and unbeknownst to me at the time, I was looking for transformation. I was looking for growth. I needed stimulation, and the thing that stimulates growth is adversity. The thing that stimulates the muscle of resilience is challenges. So when he was putting me through that, as challenging it was, I can tell you this without plant medicine, it was the most growth my mind had ever made in this amount of time. It forced me. It forced me to become more resilient.
Speaker 1:And here's the deal. He was old school too. He's probably about 50, 60 years old. He was so old school. Non-resiliency wasn't even an option. In his last words, every time I was leaving he'd go I'll see you tomorrow. Well dang, I was already thinking excuse, how am I not going to come tomorrow? He knew like, nah, you better be here tomorrow. You better be here tomorrow. But just showing up was me developing my resilience muscle? Just you. Showing up in your life is how you develop your resilience muscle. Just you. Showing up in your life is how you develop your resilience muscle. One foot in front of the other. Do you not know if you can keep going today and do it again tomorrow? That's your development, resilience. I know you wanted to give up today, probably. You probably wanted to give up in the season that you were in last year, but you didn't, did you. I'm talking to you right now. I know you wanted to give up and you didn't. And now look at you. Huh, look at you. Now the universe is saying look at her.
Speaker 1:Her, hard headed behind, didn't even know we were trying to develop her muscle resiliency. He was over here squeaming and squirreling. And is that squirreling? I don't know Squirreling. You get what I'm trying to say. Squeaming and squirreling Is that squirreling? I don't know squirreling? You get what I'm trying to say? Squirming? You was over here squirming and all we were trying to do was develop your muscle resilience. We just threw a little bit more weight on there because you were capable. That was all. So I told my son. I said look, here's what we're going to do. This is the way I live my life, Unbeknownst to me. We're just going to show up. We're going to show up For who?
Speaker 1:Not for the world, for yourself. Do it for you. You see me right now pointing at you. Yeah, you, I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you right now. You, if you could see my finger's literally going through this microphone right, I'm pointing to you.
Speaker 1:Do it for that person, do it for them for once, just for once, for once, because here's the deal you ready, are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? If you are resilient for you, good God, almighty, this universe will be resilient for you as well. Do we not realize that this is a partnership? If I show up for me, the universe shows up for me too, because we were one in the same. So this is how we get to our goals, this is how we accomplish things.
Speaker 1:I showed up for myself, and now, all of a sudden, life shows up for me. Well, why? You think? Because you finally showed up for yourself for once. You finally stuck up for yourself, you started to speak your mind, you started to walk in. The energy that you knew resonated with you, even if you were labeled as the black sheep, even if you thought your family thought you was crazy. You started to do this for yourself.
Speaker 1:What is wrong with him? Why is he doing this? Why does he want to grow? Why is he not Just stay the same? Why is it? No, I have to do this once for me. I got to show it for me just one more time. And that's the muscle of resilience. So I'll tell you about going to the rack.
Speaker 1:You know the next letter, the vowel A accountability. You know what accountability really is. All it is is radical ownership. That's all it is. See, my mother, mom, I know you're going to listen to this because I know it's going to happen. You're going to send me a text message. This is my mom in a nutshell, I love you, mom. I know you're going to laugh when you hear this Mom.
Speaker 1:Every once in a while she'd be like I listened to your podcast. Yeah, I heard you, all those lessons, all those things I was saying to you. See, you were paying attention. I said, mom, just because I didn't want to hear you didn't mean I wasn't listening. They were getting in there. But my mom, the other day she sent me a text message. She said hey, I see one of your podcasts called Sacrifice is the Key. You spelled sacrifice wrong. Is there any reason to that? And I'm like dang mom's still holding me accountable. But that's her. This is her love language, so unbeknownst to me. This is what I was raised with Accountability, being able to look yourself in the mirror and say, no, I ain't doing it, I'm not doing what I say I need to do.
Speaker 1:I know I want to get here, but I'm not really doing what I need to do. That's radical ownership. And here's what radical ownership does you ready? This is going to be triggering for some folks. That means you can't blame anybody and you can't use anybody as an excuse anymore. Let me go and get up off here, because I know I just triggered somebody and I apologize and I will see you on the next. Huh, you see? See, when you accountable, you can't blame anybody anymore and you can't use nothing as an excuse.
Speaker 1:But hear me when I say this Now I can't walk in the energy of guilt, and we know when I don't walk in the energy of guilt. Now I'm walking in the energy of empowerment. Now I can't walk in the energy of guilt, and we know, when I don't walk in the energy of guilt, now I'm walking in the energy of empowerment. Now I'm walking in the energy of sovereignty. You see what I'm saying. See, the moment that you take full ownership, this is when you regain control of your existence. This is when you become the architect of your reality. But you cannot do this, you cannot change it, until you own it. So I'm talking to you right now. I'm talking to you right now. Be so accountable with yourself. It hurts, it's painful, it's uncomfortable. Be accountable. So those parts of you who were developed and fostered and cultivated through unaccountability can pack their bags and leave. Because here's the deal. You ready, you ready.
Speaker 1:Every time, you always made an excuse for why you couldn't do something, why it didn't happen. All you did was build a wall. That's all you did. You built a wall between you and your goal. Y'all ain't trying to hear nothing. I'm saying I'm about to. I tell you All you did was create this barrier between you and where you want to go.
Speaker 1:It's easy to blame them. You, in a marriage, there's two people Well, they're not changing and they're not doing this. What you doing? What are you doing? You mean, tell me, you in a relationship and you know it doesn't resonate, but you're gonna sit here and blame somebody else. Huh, well, it sounds like to me you. You ain't doing what you need to do, because if you were, you probably wouldn't be in that relationship. Three snaps and a z formation. They not trying to hear nothing. I'm saying right now.
Speaker 1:So we will sit here and blame and make excuses and say, well, I don't understand why that. What about me? I'm not pointing fingers at nobody. I work with athletes. All the time Athletes talk about man, the refs, the refs, the refs. Do you not realize there's a reason why they put them in pinstripes? Ain't nothing else in pinstripes? Why it's a built-in distraction? Are you going to give excuses and give energy to it? Stop giving energy to the referees. Stop giving energy to the past relationship, stop giving energy to all of these things outside of you that you don't have control over. That is a lack of accountability, and all you're doing is just building a over. That is a lack of accountability, and all you're doing is just building a wall. That's all you're doing. So here's what we have to.
Speaker 1:I was telling somebody today. I said you know, you do realize, I can look at somebody's life, I can look at the results that they've accumulated. Okay, and that is the scorecard of their level of accountability. And that is the scorecard of their level of accountability. Your results are the scorecard of your level of accountability. I am here to tell you when you are accountable for yourself, it's a game changer. Nothing will stop you, nobody will stop you.
Speaker 1:So that's why, if we look at this three-dimensional matrix that we all live in, why do you think this world promotes unaccountability? Huh, because as long as you're unaccountable, you can't build your life the way you want. And if you can't build your life the way you want, I can use you to build my life for me, build my life for me. I better watch how I talk, because they might come get me. I better watch what I say, because they might uh-oh, oh no, he might've figured it out. This is why all of these things that are so prevalent, they keep you out of your accountability. Why do you think when you go to work you can't talk about politics, you can't talk about religion? That's a guaranteed fight. You want to start a fight? Go ahead and start talking about religion and politics, because both of these things take your sovereignty outside of you.
Speaker 1:Good, god, Almighty, I was telling somebody the other day. I said you can call it whatever you want. God, the universe, source, creator, allah, I'm in, the absolute, the all. Why in the world would it create something outside of whatever it was? Huh, huh. We were talking about a conversation of greatness. I said you mean to tell me this thing that created you? Right, we call it God. God created you and then took your greatness and put it outside of you. What the fuck, what, what the fuck, how, how? God said well, I'll come back. I'll come back and finish it later. No, everything is always created with completion already inside of it. Everything has the finished product already laying dormant inside of it.
Speaker 1:You already had the technology accountability is the fertilizer to unpackage the box so you can take it out. Do you see how this works? This is why we had to be accountable. God's like look, I'm gonna give you everything that you need. I'm gonna give it to you. You will have everything. But I'm putting things to amazon packages and I'm gonna box them up, I'm gonna seal them and I'm gonna put them inside of you. Well, how am'm going to box them up? I'm going to seal them and I'm going to put them inside of you. Well, how am I going to get to them? I don't know. You're going to have to figure it out. You're going to have to figure it out. Oh, but God, please help me. God's like nah, what are you talking about? I did my job. I did my job. You got it in.
Speaker 1:You Imagine if the caterpillar did this. Oh, no, I don't know how to become a butterfly. What do I do? I gotta go to college. No, no, I gotta get a degree. No, no, I gotta get a certification. Will you, will you help me?
Speaker 1:I don't know what the caterpillar's like? Nah, let me go ahead and eat these leaves. Let me go ahead and fatten up. Real quick, I'm gonna fatten up because I'm about to go into a. Uh, I'm about to go into a dark place. I'm gonna go ahead and wrap myself up. I'm gonna turn myself upside down, meaning I'm gonna put myself in a position that is the complete opposite of my nature right now, and I'm doing this off a straight instinct. But I'm gonna go ahead and do this. I don't even know what's gonna happen, but I can tell you one thing is gonna happen I ain't gonna be the same when I get out this mother. I'm not gonna be the same they to be.
Speaker 1:Like what happened to Claire, claire the caterpillar. Where is she? I thought Claire Nah, this is Beyonce the butterfly you're talking to right now. You can miss me with the Claire stuff. That was the old me New VC. But that wasn't going to happen until accountability took place. That couldn't happen until you realize that nobody else is going to do it for you. Nobody else is going to save you.
Speaker 1:I had somebody the other day I posted, put on Instagram. I had said the nature of the conversation was that nobody's going to save you, nobody's going to help you before you help yourself, and somebody commented and said you can't tell me otherwise. I wish I had my two parents growing up, and I say this with all sensitivity and compassion. Yes, for sure, you probably did wish that you had two parents and it probably would have helped you in your evolutionary journey, but you do still realize that you have the opportunity and the capability and the capacity to create a new story. You aren't hearing what I'm saying right now. You ain't hearing what I'm saying right now. Even with the trauma, even with the neglect, even with the abandonment, good God, almighty, they about to get me going. Even with the hardship, even with the grief, even with the shame, even with the guilt, even with the, without that I went in life. I still have the opportunity to change my life. I still have the opportunity to unbox this divine Amazon package that is sitting inside of me.
Speaker 1:What do they call them things? My daughter she, uh, labubus. Anybody got kids? They talking about Labubus. They look, man, labubus is, I don't know. Labubu, labubu, labubu, that's all I can say. She's like Dad, I want this one and I need this one. I'm like well, hold on now, how many of them are there? Because you got me before one time when your I need this Pokemon. I found out there's 515 million Pokemons. Well, hold on, we ain't going to be buying every Pokemon now. But all of these Labubus? I'm going to be honest with you right now. I lost my train of thought. It was something about Labubus. I ain't going to lie to you right now, but anyway, this is what happens when this is a raw, unfiltered podcast. You're probably laughing right now, but this is real.
Speaker 1:My point of this whole thing is you can't grow from what you're not willing to take responsibility for. You can't grow from the thing that you're not willing to be responsible for. So, yes, yes, yes. My parents had their issues. My parents had their trauma. It got passed down to me Ancestrally. I've taken it on, but even in that, I still can change the trajectory of my life. I have that. I have that opportunity, and so do you. But in order to do that, you're going to have to be accountable, which brings us to the last one, which is consistency.
Speaker 1:Consistency, this is an art. This is an art form. It's a skill set. Yeah, it's a mindset, but it's more of a skill set when you start understanding what consistency is. Consistency is your ability to show up every day in the midst of whatever's going on consistently. Consistently, it's a multiplier for transformation. Please remember this. Consistency is a multiplier for transformation Say it's not about what you're doing when it's easy, it ain't what you're doing when things are rolling your way.
Speaker 1:Oh, I can be consistent when I'm hitting shots. I can be consistent when the money's coming in. I can be consistent when everybody's giving me validation and approval. But what happens when it goes dark? What happens when things get quiet? What happens when the money's not coming in but the bills keep coming in? What happens then? Can you still stay on your routine? Can you still keep staying for yourself? I see this all the time. People journal, people meditate, people do their breath work when everything is feeling good. But when times get hard, we stop, we abandon what got us to this point. So it's really not about showing up when things are easy.
Speaker 1:Consistency is about showing up when things look like they ain't working, when it's boring, when it ain't sexy. That's why I tried to tell my son the other day. I said look, no, he's 13 years old. I remember when I was 13 years old, but let me go ahead and tell this before I go off on a tangent. I forget what my point was. I was telling him that growth isn't sexy, it's not linear. When I said that word, he kind of smirked, smiled and said oh you, a 13 year old boy, I forgot certain words, or you don't. You don't understand what I'm talking about right now, but I say that because I remember when I was 13 years old funny story, carly cracks up every time she hears this my mom used to take me to go get a haircut and we always had a routine we get a haircut and then we would go to Sam's club and after we go to Sam's club, we she would take me to Wendy's to get something to eat and she wanted to teach me accountability, responsibility and everything.
Speaker 1:So she would have me order. Mom, you probably don't even know the story, but I'm going to tell you you're going to laugh. She would have me order from the back seat. I would be like, okay, I want, this was before. Okay, this was before they had numbers at Wendy's. Oh, I want a number three, I want a chicken breast sandwich. Now I'm 13 years old. Hear me when I say this. Y'all, y'all are going to crack up laughing.
Speaker 1:It was called a chicken breast sandwich. That was the fried one. That was the one I wanted, but they also had the grilled chicken sandwich. I would say that I wanted a grilled chicken sandwich, so I wouldn't have to say the word breast. Oh, my goodness, I was 13 years old, which is so funny as a kid to not realize you're 13 years old. But anyway, I said to my son, I said growth isn't sexy and he like had to smirk. I'm like all right, brother, whatever, you know what I'm saying. It's not like, uh, it doesn't look good, but can you be consistent? And here's what I see with a lot of people they start and then they stop. They come out like gangbusters. I'm all in, yeah, I'm all in on my growth.
Speaker 1:You have intensity, but we lack consistency. Consistency will always trump intensity, do we see? I don't need to come in there and work hard for an hour, as hard as I can. How about this? I just come every day for 30 minutes. That's going to make more change than the hour of going hard and then not coming for two days and then coming for a day. Just be consistent. And here's why we got to be consistent. You ready? Because people ask me how long should I be consistent? I'm going to tell you how long you need to be consistent. Be consistent until you show up as the future version of you. Be consistent until you see the external results, because here's the beauty of it you ready. When you see the external results, you will have already have created a new way of being. So consistency will become your habital foundation.
Speaker 1:I just made another word up it's habital. Habital is the act of habiting. So you're wondering like what in the world did he say? He said habital. Yes, I said habital. Well, my point of this is this it's really about can I put one foot in front of the other? Because you have to understand you have a goal and you have an intention. An intention is at the beginning. That's the start line. The goal is at the end line right. The bridge between the two is what we call consistency. I'm just going to show up every day. And here's the deal.
Speaker 1:When you show up, when you're consistent, please know at the beginning it's going to look like none of it works. We talked about how it's messy. It's going to look like it's going to. I'm telling you right now you I told you with the podcast. Podcast didn't look and sound like this at the beginning.
Speaker 1:I went through all these stages, right, when you work on your body, it isn't it working on your body. It isn't great at the beginning, but over time, you become so enamored with the journey you fall in love with the process. This is what we mean when we say this I'm falling in love with the act of being consistent. If I fall in love with the act of being consistent, everything shall come from that. That's it. That's it. I'm just going to show up every day.
Speaker 1:So why is this important? Because your level of consistency is really a direct correlation to the level of belief that you have in what your vision was. Consistency is the proof of your belief, of your vision. This is what it is. So I'm going to tell you this. Remember that. Remember that.
Speaker 1:What was that thing? So I'm going to tell you this Remember that. Remember that. What was that thing, what was it called? Oh gosh, the tortoise and the hare. Remember that. That was the epitome of consistency. That was the to outpace, the giant leaps taken once in a while, just small steps every single day. And that's why I tell my children they know I'm going to do an episode with both of them here Before the year's up. I'm going to have both of them on there. It's going to be just pure joy. You guys are going to hear this conversation, but I'm going to have them on and I tell them all the time I say consistency is sorry, what's the key to success? And they always say consistency, no-transcript. Okay, we're done. Podcast is done, no more, we're done with the episodes. This is the last one.
Speaker 1:I just gave you everything there. There's the pathway to your results. I just got to be consistent, that's all. If I can be consistent meaning I can just put one foot in front of the other and just focus on that, I'm going to get to where I'm going. It may take me a while, but I wasn't counting time.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I was focusing on this process. You see, on a deeper level, on a spiritual level, this is the law of cause and effect. The causes take care of the effect. The process will always create the product. The journey is what produces the destination. So now, if I just focus on that, wow, I'll get there. I'll do it For sure. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1:So this is why, when I tell you all I'm going to do something, I'm going to accomplish something, I'm not doing it because I'm some prophet. I'm not doing it because I figured it out and y'all haven't. I don't know why. I'm just doing it. I'm saying it because I have an overdeveloped muscle of consistency. Oh, I just, I have an overdeveloped muscle of consistency, that's all, and you do as well. You just maybe have to develop it.
Speaker 1:So, start small. Start small. Right, it could be something as small as brushing your teeth every day. I don't know, I know it sounds extreme, but maybe some of us don't brush our teeth every day. All right, I'm going to start brushing my teeth twice a day. Now. I'm going to start doing that. I know I only did it once, but I'm going to do it twice. I'm going to see if I can do that for a week. Dang, I did it for a week. I brushed my teeth 14 times this week, dang, let me see if I can do it again next week, and then the next week.
Speaker 1:And then here's what's going to end up happening. You're going to get to month two. You're not even going to think about it. It's going to become a way of life, a way of being. It's a new state of mind, it's a state of consciousness.
Speaker 1:They say it takes 21 days for you to create a new neural network, a new change, a new mindset. So everything with me is always 21 days, but I go a little bit further. I want to change my life. I'm giving myself 90. Can I want to change my life? I'm giving myself 90. Can I be consistent for 90 days? But that 90 days, you know what it's broken down to. One day. I ain't got to worry about no, 90 days. I don't have to worry about five years. We ain't got to worry about that. Let me focus on one day at a time. I'm going to focus on, right now, each mother fucking moment.
Speaker 1:You see how this works Moment, moment, moment. We know that moment creates momentum and momentum generates consistency and consistency. Consistency births success, and success is nothing more than the divine realization of what we already, deep down inside, knew we were capable of. Good God, almighty, they ain't trying to hear nothing. So now you're seeing why I'm telling you to get to the rack. Get to the rack, get to the rack, get to the rack Resiliency, accountability, consistency. And then you'll see that resilience is what got you back up, accountability is what keeps you aligned and keeps you honest, and consistency is what gets you to that finish line. And here's the beauty of it.
Speaker 1:Carly used to tell me when I was younger I've gotten better at this, but she used to tell me you're all or nothing. You are all or nothing. I'll give you a perfect example of this. You know what I mean. This is me when I was young, I was in my 30s. I'm like I want to get big, I want to get jacked, I want to put on weight. I need to start eating Dave's and ordered I don't know what it was called.
Speaker 1:She refers to it as the meat platter. It had every type of meat on there that you could think of. I ordered every. I mean it was. This is back when I used to eat meat. I mean it was sausage, it was pulled pork, it was brisket, it was a hamburger, it was I mean, you can think of any type of animal that walked this planet. It was on this platter and I'm like, yeah, I'm going to eat this and I ate it. She says I had the meat sweats. I didn't know what that was. Before that point it was almost like my body was shutting down and my body was like why are we doing this? She used to say my point of this is she used to say, that you are all or nothing. I've gotten better. Balance, I think, is what has helped and I don't eat meat platters anymore.
Speaker 1:But anyway, my point of this is this here's the thing about RAC. Here's the thing about resiliency, accountability and consistency. When you put them all together, if you skip one of them, the whole system will collapse. Oh, so what you're trying to tell us, d? I'm trying to tell you that you're going to have to be consistent in your level of accountability. You're going to have to be consistent in being resilient. You're going to have to be consistent in being consistent. So maybe it shouldn't be rack, it should have been car. Maybe consistency should have came first, then accountability, then resilience. I know I'm throwing you off. Right now. You're probably like well, I thought he was telling us to get to the rack. Well, maybe you need to get in the car. Get in the car and get to the rack. How about that?
Speaker 1:But my point of this is you realize that you can't shortcut it. I can't be this. Okay, yeah, I'll be consistent in that, but I won't be accountable in this. Nah, and here's the deal. Do it in all of life, be great in all of life, all of life. Don't just be great in your finances. But you got a weak ass marriage. I'm sorry I had to curse. I just had to say it because I had to get this done. Don't just be great in this but then I'm not accountable in this or I'm not resilient. Do it in all of it. You have the capability to do it in all of it. You might as well. You hear, you hear, and here's why I say this Be great.
Speaker 1:I was talking to an athlete this morning. She played in WNBA. I was telling her what greatness is. She was telling me what greatness is, and greatness is this and that and winning championships.
Speaker 1:I, outside of you, what if you're never great? What if you never win a championship? What if you're never an all-star? What if you're never in any of these things? I say God would never, ever, never put greatness outside of you. This universe would never put greatness on the outside. This universe would never put greatness on the outside. And those who know, they know.
Speaker 1:Why do you think LeBron James? His whole tagline is strive for greatness, strive for greatness. You'll never not strive for greatness as long as you realize it's on the inside, because there's infinite growth. You'll never get to a point where you're like oh, yep, oh, I think I'm great today. I'm done. Oh, my goodness, oh, all right. What do we want to do now? No, because the moment that you get there, guess what? Life comes and knock you upside the head. Man, what the? I thought I was great. Nah, you ain't done. That was just the first letter in greatness, don't you know? We got more. You ain't done.
Speaker 1:Get up, matter of fact, get to the rack. No matter of fact, get in the car. Since you over here talking about all this stuff, you want to be. Get up. Do we see how this works? It's a never-ending journey. So I just wanted to get on here and tell you these are the three energies resiliency, accountability and consistency. Consistency, accountability and resilience. Consistency is what's going to make you unstoppable. Resiliency is going to make you strong. Accountability is what makes you responsible.
Speaker 1:You hear that word response inside of there. You see, anybody who was part of Unlimited, you know we're doing one or the other. We're either reacting or we're responding. Reacting is the old me, responding is the new me. So when you're accountable, it's actually the new you coming in saying this isn't what we do. No, no, no, no. We don't allow people to treat us this way. No, no, no. We don't settle for less than what we know we're worthy of no, no, no, no. That's what accountability is. It is literally the future desired reality, that version of you swooping in saying, girl, what are you doing? You know you ain't going to be able to wear my shoes acting like this. You know you ain't gonna be able to wear my shoes Acting like this. You know good and well, you ain't gonna be living in this house With this scarce polished mindset that you have right now. That's what accountability is. So, for everybody here, I encourage you.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't focus on everything at once. I would just focus on one of those things and master that. Start with consistency. Let me just see if I can meditate every day. Let me see if I can do what I know I need to do every day. Maybe I need to drink a gallon of water. I know I need to do Every day. Maybe I need to drink a gallon of water. I know I need to drink more water. Maybe I know I need to do that Because when I pee, it's yellow.
Speaker 1:I don't know what it is, but it's yellow. Maybe I just need to do that. I'll start with drinking water. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to order me a water bottle that has the times. You know how it says 7am, 9am, 7 am, 9 am the big old thing. Everywhere you take it, everybody, look at you. I'm going to order me one of them and I'm going to be, as my daddy would say, I'm going to be peeing like a racehorse, but you know what I'm doing this so I can develop my muscle of consistency. And then here's what's going to end up happening All of a sudden, you're going to realize that life has its ups and downs, but the downs don't feel as down, and you're going to be like man.
Speaker 1:I felt like life used to be really hard. It ain't that. Life ain't hard. It's that you've grown in your capacity to be able to handle more. You've grown in your ability to be able to expand to the new level. So get to the rack. You know what you need to do and just start there. And I promise you, I promise you, if you are consistent, I'm living proof of it. That's all I am. That's all I. I just, I, just, I just. Literally, I just chop wood, carry water, that's it. Just focus on one step in front of the other. And I don't. I just chop wood, carry water, that's it. Just focus on one step in front of the other, and I don't care what it looks like on the outside, I really don't care. I don't really, and that's why I think I don't.
Speaker 1:I told Carla I don't work well with others. If I work with you, then there must be something different. I've always been this way. I didn't like group projects in school. I was the one who would not do anything in the group project and sit back and be like what are y'all doing? And then we'd get up there anytime to talk and I just say three words and the other people looking at me like that's all you're going to say and I'm like, well, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1:My point of this is this when you start to realize that you, you, you, you, you, you are the one who's creating and doing these things in your life, it really comes down to one thing Can I just be consistent? That's it. Can I be consistent? If I can be consistent, if I can be consistent with myself, meaning I am showing up for me because of me, and that's it, you're going to see results. You're for sure going to see results. There's no doubt about it. And this is what I've told you. This is literally all I've done with the podcast. That's it. I haven't done anything else but this I'm only focusing on. But this, I'm only focusing on making sure I put one foot in front of the other and then everybody says, oh wow, you've done this. No, that was a byproduct.
Speaker 1:So everything's going to be a byproduct of your level of accountability, your level of resilience and your level of consistency. Everything in your life. So start doing of consistency. Everything in your life. So start doing inventory. Start looking at your life, go ahead and look at it, start measuring and see, like damn, am I doing it? I'm not doing it. I got to increase my muscle of consistency.
Speaker 1:I know I'm not being consistent, I know I'm not Okay. Why? That is the magical question. Why that is the magical question, why, and when you get to that, why you're going to find a wound there. You're going to find a limiting belief, and that's the work. Can I get rid of that? Can I change that story? Can I heal that narrative? And when you do that, you know what's going to happen. Your meter of consistency moves up just a little bit more.
Speaker 1:So I am about to go. Now I must get going. I'm going to go out and do something. That's really hard. I think today's temperature is like 85. My wife's like what are you doing? Why are you wearing with that sweatsuit on? I say because it's hard. I do it because it's hard. That's all. Because I want to learn how to do things that are tough, and I'm just using my physical body right now as a representation of that. So I'm going to go do that. That's all.
Speaker 1:My neighbor's looking at me. I got a neighbor across the street. He looks at me like what in the world is he doing? First of all, does he work? Why is he out here running in the middle of the day? Yes, I do, I do podcast. Yes, I do. But I'm going to go do this right now, because the last thing I would want is to tell you to do something that I myself am not doing. You see what we call that. We call that embodiment. So go, embody and be the version of you who you know you need to be. Go and be that, whatever that may look like. Get your your water bottle, go, get you a little sweatsuit. Go even sign up for boxing lessons. I don't know what you need to do. Whatever you need to do, but give yourself permission to do so, and as always, I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results.