Almost always is not on time

Consistency is key for every goal you want in life. Big goals don’t happen in a single moment. You don’t win a championship in one game—you win it after many practices and smaller wins stacked together.

When you are consistent with the small things—showing up, paying attention, doing the work—results are inevitable. Like throwing a rock in the air, it will always come back down. But when you only “sometimes” do the work, you give your results to luck.

We love stories about someone who comes out of nowhere, does one thing, and makes it happen. They look like geniuses, overnight successes, lottery winners. Those stories sell magazines, but they’re exceptions. The truth is, we are bad at calculating odds when luck is involved. Casinos don’t go bankrupt, but gamblers do. The boring habits, repeated every day, don’t get applause or recognition, but they are what build something real. And when people can count on you to do what you said you’d do, you become reliable—and in a team, that’s everything.

I learned this the hard way back in high school. I was training every day with my team for a big game. After practice, I would toss my clothes in the laundry basket, take a shower, and carry on with my day. One time my mom was traveling, and I decided to do laundry myself. I even came up with my own system: wake up 30 minutes early every three days.

The first week, no problem. The second week, I started thinking maybe I didn’t need to wash clothes so often to avoid waking up earlier. By the third week, I was reusing dirty clothes. Sometimes I washed them, sometimes I didn’t. It didn’t seem like a big deal until it was.

No surprise. I got an allergy on my foot. I scratched it until it bled, and a few days later, I couldn’t train anymore. After all that work and training, I couldn’t be in the game. Turns out, washing clothes “almost always” is not the same as washing them always.

Some people say being too consistent makes you rigid, that sometimes you need to break the pattern to discover something new. And that’s true to a point. But what I learned is that you can only adapt and try new things if you already have a baseline of discipline.

That’s why this childhood lesson stayed with me and became one of our three core values at Axiacore: Dynamic Consistency. Without consistency, we couldn’t develop the skills and systems needed to handle millions for our clients with our solutions. It’s easy to hear excuses, but it’s rare to see people who show up and deliver every time.

Consistency doesn’t guarantee success, but without it, nothing remarkable happens. It’s the ground you stand on. That’s why I’ll never forget that childhood lesson: almost always is not on time.