Consistency

Brushing your teeth once does absolutely nothing.

Sure, you’ll get about 2–6 hours of “minty fresh” confidence and maybe delay a cavity for a few days. But in the grand scheme? Worthless.
Brush twice a day, every day, and you get the long-term payoff: clean teeth, healthy gums, and breath that doesn’t offend strangers. (Which, let’s be honest, benefits everyone.)

Now take that same principle and drop it on anything that matters — training, nutrition, mindset, recovery. You don’t get results from what you do occasionally. You get them from what you do relentlessly.

And I know what you’re thinking:
“Oh wow, Reid… I’ve never heard that before.”
[insert eye roll reaction]

You have. We all have. But hearing it and living it are two completely different games.
So here’s the gut check — are you actually consistent?
Do you follow through on the things you say you value? Or do you let yourself off the hook with a nice, tidy excuse and promise to start again “next week”?

Real change doesn’t come from motivation. It comes from discipline. From doing the boring stuff, the small stuff, the unglamorous stuff — over and over until it becomes who you are.

So the question becomes:
Are you doing what’s required to get the results you want?