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Your Job Isn’t To Be Perfect; Your Job Is To Be Consistent.

Anthony Moore
Ascent Publication
7 min readNov 14, 2019

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“Every day, check these 4 boxes: have I improved 1% on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health?” -James Altucher

If you can do something every day, you’ll become enormously successful.

But being consistent is hard. Most people aren’t consistently improving themselves every day.

Still, being consistent isn’t complicated. You just need to make small progress, every day. And it gets much easier if you just focus on one thing: being 1% better than you were yesterday.

Zak Slayback once wrote:

“How many people do you know call themselves an “entrepreneur” but have never started a business?

How many people do you know call themselves a “writer” but write once a month?

How many people do you know call themselves a “fitness coach” but do not coach people in fitness?

How many people do you know who call themselves an “artist” but never create art?

Are you one of these people?”

Your job isn’t to be perfect. Your job is to be consistent. All you need to do is be a little better, even just 1% better, every day. And that’s not that hard. After a while, you’ll really be able to call yourself a true writer, podcaster, gym…

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Anthony Moore
Ascent Publication

Writer for CNBC, Business Insider, Fast Company, Thought Catalog, Yahoo! Finance, and you.