Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening,
everybody, and welcome to today's episode of
the Never Peak Project Podcast. I'm your host,
Coach Ranger, mindset coach, speaker, and the
guy who once walked across the country to figure
out what really matters. Now, this podcast is
for high achievers who look successful on the
outside, but quietly feel like they're still
stuck halfway up the mountain. Around here, we
talk about the messy. meaningful work of identity,
leadership, and living a life worth remembering.
And today, we're diving into a thought that will
absolutely wreck your momentum if you let it.
Well, that's easy for them. Let's get into it.
Now, if you ever caught yourself looking at someone's
success and thinking, well, of course they can
do it. Look at their life. I want you to pause
and ask, what reps am I not doing that they probably
are? Because you don't get to be mad about someone
else's harvest when you haven't done the planting.
Now let me tell you a quick story. About two
weeks into my walk across America, I hit a little
bit of a breaking point. I was in South Carolina,
alone, walking up these brutal rolling hills.
Not mountains. but relentless hills. The kind
of hills that don't look too bad until you're
on foot with 20 pounds on your back, 100 pounds
in front of you, and knees that are screaming
at you. Now, cars were flying past me at 70 miles
an hour, up hills that were taking me 15, 20,
30, 45 minutes, and sometimes even over an hour
to climb. And it was rough. It wasn't great for
morale. And there was really no finish line in
sight. I couldn't even see what was past the
next hill. There was no big music. There was
no cheering. It was just me, those hills, backpack,
cart, and my own thoughts. And here's the thing.
I didn't sit there and wish that I was someone
else. I didn't look at the cars and say, oh,
this is easy for them. Look how fast they're
getting it. And somehow make myself feel worse
about the situation by comparing it. I sat with
the heart. Well, should I say I walked. with
the hard and through it. But really, I just knew
I needed to take one painful, sweaty, discouraging
step at a time until I got to the other side.
And you know what? That day doesn't really fit
in the highlight reel when you first think of
it. But it was one of the things that made my
results so sweet. Because every single step that
I took was a deposit into the bank of earned
success. And when I think about those hills in
South Carolina and how I could have easily fallen
into the comparison game, it reminds me of when
I actually did fall into that game of comparison.
When I first saw that Mike Posner had walked
across the United States, I had this instant
reaction. My first thoughts were, how cool, how
amazing. I wish I could do something like that.
And then I told myself all the stories as to
why I couldn't do it. But then that switched.
If I had the money that he had, time wouldn't
even be an issue. You could just do a few miles
a day and blah, blah, blah. And I was so caught
up in all the things that he had, I didn't even
think of the stuff that he did. Because, yeah,
he might have had more resources, but you know
what else he had? Every single step behind him
and in front of him, just like me, just like
you. But he still had to walk the road. Even
though he had a van, even though he had a support
team, he still had to do the work. I sat there
criticizing someone else's output while doing
none of the input myself. You don't get to resent
someone else's success when you haven't done
the reps they have. And I see this all the time.
So many of my clients fall into this trap and
maybe you do too. You look at someone with the
business you want, a body you want, a life you
want, and you think, well, that's easy for them.
But you don't know their story. You don't know
if you're judging their highlight reel from the
middle of your own journey. Now, I like to tell
my clients, don't compare your Rocky montage
to their final scene. You don't know the cuts,
the sweat, the missed shots, the disappointments.
You're only seeing the result. not the work that
went into creating it. Now, when my clients are
stuck in that mindset, I ask, what would you
have to do to make success inevitable? What kind
of reps would make the result unreasonable for
you to not achieve? Then we talk about the difference
between wanting the harvest and doing the planning.
You want the summer bod, but you don't want the
gym time. You want the dream relationship, but
not the hard conversations. You want the business,
but not the risk or the reach outs. Let's be
honest. You don't want the plane ride. You want
the vacation. If you're ready to stop comparing
yourself to others and start building real momentum,
here's what I'd like you to do today. Step one
is to catch the comparison. When that voice says
things like that's easy for them, I want you
to pause and say, maybe. What are they doing?
And what am I doing? And then I want you to pick
one rep. Not a huge change, just something. One
thing. Send the email, make the call, do the
set, go on the date. And the third is to repeat
it quietly. It doesn't need to be loud. It just
needs to be consistent. And if you'd like to
figure out what that one step is for you, feel
free to hit the link in the description. There
is a link there to my Calendly for a free 15
-minute call where I can help you figure out
where comparison is coming up in your life and
how you can take steps to get past it. So really,
thank you so much for being here and for doing
the work most people won't. It really matters.
And if today's episode hit home, share it with
a friend or a teammate who needs to hear it.
And until next time, remember that the best is
yet to come as long as you are willing to make
the decision every day to never settle, never
quit, and never peak. I'll see you guys in the
next one.