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Lesson Seven

The Power Behind Performance – 3 Key Success Hacks:


Consistency, Persistence, and Discipline

Consistency, Persistence and Discipline are the three main states of


mind that will take you to success. Each are powerful energetic forces
that will magnetise your mind to your goal and provide you with a
pathway to achievement.

We have spoken a lot about how your mind works; the conscious and
subconscious mind, we have gone into detail on how to shift paradigms
and create new thoughts and beliefs and have begun to explore some
of the universal laws that govern us on this planet. Let’s now look at
three simple but powerful principles that, as we put these lessons
together in our daily life, will propel us significantly and speedily towards
our goal.

The three principles, if used, will underpin your learning to date and
accelerate your progress in a clear and orderly manner. These three
principles are the engine to any success and so we want to gain some
mastery at all three. Let’s take them one at a time.

Consistency

This is probably one of the hardest to master and the most important.
Without consistency all results will be like a yoyo, one minute up and
the next down. Just imagine for a moment you wanted to enter a
marathon race and to do so effectively you must run every day, but you
don’t, you only run two or maybe three times a week. How do you think

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you would fare in the race? Well, you might finish but you certainly
would not get your best result.

Consistency is like compounding your actions, the more you do the


greater the outcome. Google tells us:

Consistency: The quality of always behaving in the same way or of having the
same opinions, standard, etc.; the quality of being consistent.

Consistency is a quality we can develop and a quality that as we


develop will take us to the very top. It is a way of not just behaving; that
is the actions we take but a way of being, part of who you are, a habit
that becomes part of your self-image. Your paradigm may kick up a
right royal fuss about being consistent, but you now know enough about
paradigms to take no notice and create the consistency you want!

Persistence

The author Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich says that
persistence is a quality likened to that of what carbon is to steel. For
those of you who do not understand that comparison, it is carbon that
makes the steel so strong! Being persistent as a habitual way of being,
will give you strength, enable you to pick yourself up when you fall, and
there will be many times you fall down and it will get you through the
tough times.

Persistence is like bringing in the heavy guns to the party. The never
give up attitude is persistence. The ‘whatever takes’ is persistence.
(Remember in lesson 1 you said you were willing to do whatever it takes
to reach your goal). The lack of persistence is one of the major causes

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of failure and you can see why. Giving up must never be an option. That
does not mean to say you may need to course correct, a change of
plan, implement a fresh idea, create a new pathway, all these small
directional changes are often required as we head for our C-type goal,
those changes are coming from persistence, trying out another route is
persistence in action

There is no substitute for persistence, it cannot be replaced by any


other quality. Napoleon Hill goes on to tell us that there are four ways to
develop persistence:

● Have a definite purpose backed by a burning desire (your C-Type


goal)
● Have a clear and definite plan expressed by continuous action (4
action every day from lesson 1)
● A mind tightly closed against all negative and discouraging
influences (previous lessons on how to think)
● A friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage
you to follow through (Master Mind lesson 12)

And lastly persistence will generate increased faith in your abilities and
trust in the process of your success.

Discipline

The best is always last! Too many people mistake discipline with a
negative connotation. Childhood memories of being ‘disciplined’ after
doing something wrong or misbehaving, in fact, school has a lot to
answer for. Yet discipline is our best friend when we get to know it well.
Let’s go to Google again.

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Discipline: the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour

The rules we are concerned with here are your rules. The rules you give
yourself. Following through with what you say you will do. Upholding
your word to others and to yourself. Discipline is a simple practice and
the more you practise the stronger your discipline muscle gets. The
best way to increase your level of discipline is not to bite off more than
you can chew. It’s all too easy to make big claims and demonstrations,
but following through is much harder. Remember your paradigm is
always going to want to hold you back. That’s how you change
paradigms, with discipline and why you only change one or two at a
time. Smaller chunks will give you bigger success, so remember when
you declare something make sure you follow through, no more excuses
or justifications of why you didn’t. Go for it and give it your best shot, do
whatever is required, push through the fear block, give yourself
permission to win. Let yourself develop your discipline muscle,
remember we have more resources, deeper functions and abilities that
we think we have right now. Go the extra mile and develop a keen sense
of discipline as a habit.

Lastly, remember discipline is not just about the physical actions you
take it's also about disciplining your thoughts, if you don’t control your
thinking you cannot control what you do.

“True freedom is impossible


without a mind made free by discipline.”
Unknown

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