I love baseball.
I’ve been a big Toronto Blue Jays fan my whole life, but when I was a kid I admired what Cal Ripken Jr. of the rival Baltimore Orioles was doing.
In 1995, Ripken broke what was believed to be an “unbreakable record” – Lou Gehrig’s 2,130 consecutive games streak (Ripken ended up with 2,632 straight games before his steak finally ended).
If you don’t follow baseball, these numbers might not mean much … but to put it in perspective, it’s difficult to play all 162 straight games in a baseball season let alone several thousand games over many seasons (after Ripken and Gehrig, third place is way down at 1,307 games!).
I admired Ripken because he showed up to play every single day – rain or shine, whether he was feeling good or not.
You got the sense that even if he had a broken leg he would have been out on the field and ready to go.
He was the “The Iron Man”, or Mr.Consistency, and it was motivating to watch him do what he did for so many years.
Consistency is a trait that I’ve been noticing in the most successful coaches out there, so the February issue of Secret Coach Club will be showing how I (and others) stay consistent .. even when we don’t feel like it.
If you’d like to learn how to be more consistent in 2021, and beyond, there’s still time to subscribe before the deadline:
