Braden Bristo’s – The Journeyman’s Path

What process gets you from where you are to where you want to go?

One March I was in the Yankees minor league complex gym at the beginning of spring training. I was riding the bike getting ready to go out and stretch with the team. For whatever reason, we had a few big name stars with the Yankees at the minor league gym that day. Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton were there. I remember being surprised to see these two giants, who had already made it to the pinnacle of our sport, working extremely hard on a couple of small movements they were trying to master.

I realized that day that to get where I wanted to go I needed to allow myself to get lost in the work in front of me, no matter how small the significance of the work seemed.

I needed to learn to master the mundane.

The mundane is a place you need to visit religiously. The boring things, if done consistently with a high level of intensity, will have a compounding effect on your ability to improve. It is hard to see genuine improvement from one day to the next.

Challenge yourself to become the best at “wash, rinse, repeat”. If you can do this, the volume of your work over time will take you farther than any one great day.

Falling in love with the boring, everyday, consistent work is key for long term success in anything we do. When your goals are met and your dreams are realized, the goalpost move further down the field.

The only thing that you really have is the work in front of you. Learn to love it and the mundane becomes magical.

“I accumulated small but consistent habits that ultimately led to results that were unimaginable when I started.”

James Clear