Small, daily, seemingly insignificant improvements when done consistently over time will lead you to dazzling and stunning results. It’s the micro victories that make mastery, not something you do once a year. So stay true to yourself. Those little consistent tiny triumphs, they’re easy not to do them because they seem so small. But those little wins every single day, especially when it’s difficult to do, that’s what really makes mastery. I heard an interview of Chris Bosh, the NBA superstar, and he said, “When you go to practice, when you feel like staying in bed, is when the magic happens.” I’m going to repeat that again because it’s really important. What he was suggesting is when you get out of bed to do the early morning workout, when you do what you know you should do when you feel like not doing it, that when the magic happens, that’s when the real growth happens. At my home gym, there’s this poster of Muhammad Ali’s quote, and essentially what he said was, I don’t love the word hate, but he said, “I hated every single one of those difficult workouts. But I loved the idea of being champion of the world.” I was walking in a park the other morning and I saw someone with a T-shirt, and it was a quote that’s often attributed to Greg LeMond, the Tour de France titan. And you’re going to love this one, it said, “It never got easier. I just went faster.” Isn’t that great? It never got easier. The workouts never get easier. Eating meticulously never gets easier. Staying competitive and on your Agame never got easy. But by doing those things, I just got faster. So to have the results only 5% of the population has, you’ve got to be willing to do what 95% of the population is unwilling to do.
