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 March 18, 2025

# It's all about consistency

![Picture of Gavin Brauer](https://brauer.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/Gavin-2.jpg?width=50&name=Gavin-2.jpg) By   Gavin Brauer  ·   1 minute read

Lately I've been feeling a little down in the dumps about some of the changes I'd made last year to my business development process. I had experienced some early success. And then - all of a sudden - it stopped working.

This lead to self-doubt and a reduction in my confidence.

Just as I was ready to throw in the towel, I had a conversation with a fellow EOS Implementer who reminded me of something I learned twenty something years ago from the book Good to Great by Jim Collins.

Here's the quote that made my issue crystal clear...

"Big things happen because you do a bunch of little things supremely well that compound over time. This is what we learned. We see tremendous consistency in any truly great enterprise. The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change—although, and we’ll get to this, if you don’t change, you become irrelevant—but the true signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency." - Jim Collins

Want to be great? Then be consistent. Simple but not easy.

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