Consistency:
Another Brick in the Wall
Happy Thanksgiving!
If you are just joining us, this is the fifth in an 8-post series on the 7-C framework. You can catch up here:
Clarity sets your direction.
Commitment binds you to the mission.
Courage moves you through fear.
But without Consistency, none of it will hold.
That’s why Consistency sits dead center in the 7-Cs framework.
It’s the hinge pin. Without it, the first three are just sparks that never catch fire, and the final three—Competence, Confidence, and Curiosity—will never get the chance to burn.
If Clarity is the blueprint, Consistency is the construction crew. It doesn’t care about your mood, your motivation, or how exciting the vision sounded last week. It just shows up, day after day, and lays the next brick.
The Brick-by-Brick Principle
Imagine you decide to build a house by laying one brick each day. It doesn’t sound like much.
One brick isn’t heroic. It’s not headline material.
But stack those bricks for a year, and you’ve got a wall.
Do it for a decade, and you’ve built a fortress.
That’s what Consistency is—daily construction.
Each repetition, each routine, each small act compounds into something unbreakable.
Most people sprint for 30 days, burn out, and wonder why they’re standing in a pile of rubble. They confuse intensity for progress. But intensity fades. Consistency endures.
The great paradox is that Consistency feels boring while you’re doing it—and looks legendary once you’ve done it. The first brick is invisible. The last one is inevitable.
Discipline Over Drama
Every professional I’ve ever respected shared one trait: they were ruthlessly consistent.
They didn’t rely on hype or streaks. They relied on habits and systems.
Their process didn’t fluctuate with emotion. The workout got done. The plan got reviewed. The practice got executed. Not perfectly, but predictably.
They didn’t need motivation because they had momentum.
Consistency builds internal credibility. Every time you keep a promise to yourself, you earn a vote of confidence from the only person who really matters: You.
Confidence isn’t built by pep talks—it’s built by proof.
The Compound Effect of Boring
Here’s the truth: there’s no such thing as an overnight success. There are only people who kept stacking bricks while everyone else stopped watching.
The writer who writes every day for 10 years.
The athlete who trains every dawn.
The parent who shows up every night.
None of them win because they were the best—they win because they never left the job site.
There is a small section from the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Ladder of St. Augustine, that does a better job of encapsulating this idea than I ever will:
“The heights by great men reached and kept
were not attained by sudden flight,
but they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.”
And that’s how you get better at getting better. Not by swinging hammers wildly, but by placing one brick, straight and true, every single day.
Execution (Keep the Crew Working)
Define Your Brick: What’s the smallest measurable action that proves progress toward your goal? (One page. One call. One mile. One rep.) In this past Monday’s RTFU, I call this your MVP (Check it out here)
Set the Rhythm: Schedule your bricklaying at the same time daily. Protect it like oxygen.
Track the Wall: Visualize your progress. Use a whiteboard, a notebook, or a calendar. Something to watch the bricks stack and the chain remain unbroken..
Run a Daily AAR: One question—Did I lay my brick today? ✅ or ❌. Nothing more. Yes, you will miss a day, but never let that miss become two. When you do, you’ve started becoming consistent at failure.
Respect the Process: Don’t chase pace. Chase presence. Perfect bricks beat fast piles.
Consistency isn’t glamorous. It’s foundational.
When motivation fades and courage wavers, Consistency keeps the patrol moving.
Brick by brick. Day by day.
Until one morning, you step back—and realize you’ve built something bulletproof.
That’s how you keep Walking Point.
Until next week,
Thank you for reading. Please share this with a friend who needs it.
John
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Happy Thanksgiving
Powerful writing and message brother. Hope you have a great one while still laying a brick or two 👊🏻