The Denzel Washington Effect: Commitment Begins, Consistency Completes | Career Chat with Joshua Tate

We explore Denzel Washington's powerful quote: "Without commitment you'll never start, but, more importantly, without consistency you'll never finish," and unpack why these two elements are essential for achieving any meaningful goal.

• Commitment is necessary to overcome both positive and negative distractions when beginning any endeavor
• Jim Rohn's insight on how talking about goals prematurely gives you the psychological reward before doing the work
• How announcing goals to others can reduce your motivation to actually complete them
• Personal example of starting the podcast but facing technical challenges with camera equipment
• The importance of persistence in finding simple solutions to seemingly complex problems
• Consistency as the key factor in moving past obstacles and completing what you start

Join us next time for more bite-sized career inspiration to help you achieve your professional goals.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Career Chats
• 0:19 Denzel's Quote on Commitment
• 1:34 Jim Rohn's Insight on Premature Rewards
• 2:36 Podcast Journey and Technical Challenges
• 4:05 Final Thoughts on Consistency

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:08

welcome back to the transparent nature podcast. This is career chats. Bite-sized inspiration, josh. Welcome back to the podcast glad to be here I got a quote for you today. It says without commitment you'll never start, but, more importantly, without consistency you'll never start. But, more importantly, without consistency you'll never finish. By Denzel Washington.

Speaker 2: 0:29

What do you think about that? That's a nice quote Without commitment you'll never start and without consistency you'll never finish. Man, I truly believe in that. I truly believe in that, and what I mean by that is because, in order for you to start, you have to be committed. The reason why? Because in that starting process, like man, if you're not committed, it's going to be a lot of things that distract you. It's going to be a lot of things that distract you, like, and it's good things and bad things, and that's one thing I like to tell people Distractions aren't, it isn't always bad, that's true. You have distractions, that's true. You have distractions. That's good to really help you, yeah, uh-huh, and but it takes your time and your focus away from what you should be focusing on. And so, man, like you do have to be committed from the very beginning, and even to talk about just that next part of without consistency, consistency you'll never finish.

Speaker 2: 1:21

That is so good you'll never finish because you have to stay consistent, like consistency is the key to getting anything done. And you know what's crazy that? You said that. I was listening to a video this morning by Jim Rohn and he was talking about when it comes to being consistent. He was saying if you always talk about what you're going to do, right, if you always talk about what you're going to do and you tell everybody what you're going to do, that actually takes away from you finishing. And the reason why he said that is because you get the reward. You get the reward, so you're less driven because you already got the reward. When you tell people hey, you know, uh they are really celebrating you?

Speaker 1: 2:09

yeah, they're already oh, that's awesome man I can't wait.

Speaker 2: 2:12

Oh yeah, yep, and. And what he was saying was like it takes away your energy, it takes away your focus, and so you've got that reward of feeling like you already accomplished it, but you didn't, and so it's hard to stay consistent, right? If you're already rewarded but you haven't even finished yet. So, man, that's a nice quote by Denzel Washington.

Speaker 1: 2:32

Yeah, it really is. And automatically, when I saw this quote, I was thinking about the podcast. Right, because you was with me, you did my commercial and we were talking about it for over a year. Right, yeah, and life happened. Right, things happened. You know, I started with the wall, I started ordering just stuff, the process yes, and then out of nowhere, I couldn't figure out my camera situation.

Speaker 1: 2:57

Yeah, like for some reason or another, my camera would not connect for me to do videos on my computer with my DSLR. And for some reason, I was like either I'm going to have to buy a new camera and that's going to be like an extra $1,200 and more with lenses and all of that. But you know what? I was committed to it. I was like I'm going to figure this out and believe it or not. It was something so simple, so simple. Committed to it, I was like I'm gonna figure this out and believe it or not. It was something so simple, so simple. I just needed one extra piece, yeah, one extra something to plug into right, uh, the computer, um, and that really changed the game. And so when I got started, you know, other challenges came along, like, uh, our first episode we recorded, you remember.

Speaker 2: 3:44

We did it like two or three times but, you know like you have to be, we have to be committed.

Speaker 1: 3:50

You gotta be committed and even with consistency, like if you know, and I think that's why some people they call it burnout, but yeah sometimes people, they just get lazy right, absolutely, absolutely, and you got to be consistent with whatever you're doing. So, man, thank you for coming on the show. Bite-sized inspiration with our career chat. All right, we'll see y'all on the other side, you.