APEX Health With Simon Johnson
Oct 19, 2026 · 17 min · 8 segments
Most people already know what they need to do. The real problem is doing it consistently, especially when motivation disappears, life gets busy, and the original plan stops feeling exciting. In this…
Simon JohnsonHost
So here we go, and make sure you hang around until the last one because it is an absolutely golden one, okay? The first quote for me is, "Make sure that we operate out of being consistently good, not occasionally great." Okay? Very, very simply, just being consistently good rather than occasionally great has helped me ditch the all or nothing mindset.
I would hands down say I am probably one of the most all or nothing pe- people you will ever meet in your life, particularly when I was younger.
I remember literally drawing out schedules to go to the rugby pitch, and I'd be like, "I would do this many kicks off this foot, this many kicks off this foot." I wouldn't then leave until I'd got that many kicks and that many kicks, and then I would go, and I wouldn't go back up to the rugby club and kick again for two months.
Okay? Now, this also was a massive occurrence, this all or nothing mindset in my training and my nutrition when I was younger.
It was a case of like, hey, my training was always pretty good, but then I was either on the most strict low carb, ridiculous meal plan or just eating whatever the fuck I wanted on the seafood.
Um, and it just ultimately led to me just never feeling like I reached my full potential.
I was just there constantly thinking, "If I could just stay consistent, if I could just continue to do this, if I could just continue to turn up and operate at the standard I know I'm capable of, I could re- reach my full potential." And after a while, when you constantly operate at this place of not reaching your full potential, it just starts to eat away at your confidence.
It starts to eat away at your thought process and your ability to actually believe in yourself because you start breaking your promises to yourself, and you start self-sabotaging.
So the analogy that I actually want to give you to try and remember this consistently good beats occasionally great is a surfer.
If they literally went out, caught one wave back in towards the beach, and they fell off and they went, "No, I don't do this," and went back in.
They would never get any better at surfing, would they? Whereas a surfer, particularly a good surfer or someone who wants to get better at surfing, they always get back on the board.
Okay? And if you catch that wave in, you fall off, you get back on, you paddle out.
Eventually you will become very good, and that is you operating out of being consistently good, not occasionally great.
If you can embody, genuinely embody this quote and live your life as consistently good, it will transform you physically, mentally, emotionally, psychologically, personally, professionally, everything, because consistency compounds into something absolutely ridiculous.
So here we go, and make sure you hang around until the last one because it is an absolutely golden one, okay? The first quote for me is, "Make sure that we operate out of being consistently good, not occasionally great." Okay? Very, very simply, just being consistently good rather than occasionally great has helped me ditch the all or nothing mindset.
I would hands down say I am probably one of the most all or nothing pe- people you will ever meet in your life, particularly when I was younger.
I remember literally drawing out schedules to go to the rugby pitch, and I'd be like, "I would do this many kicks off this foot, this many kicks off this foot." I wouldn't then leave until I'd got that many kicks and that many kicks, and then I would go, and I wouldn't go back up to the rugby club and kick again for two months.
Okay? Now, this also was a massive occurrence, this all or nothing mindset in my training and my nutrition when I was younger.
It was a case of like, hey, my training was always pretty good, but then I was either on the most strict low carb, ridiculous meal plan or just eating whatever the fuck I wanted on the seafood.
Um, and it just ultimately led to me just never feeling like I reached my full potential.
I was just there constantly thinking, "If I could just stay consistent, if I could just continue to do this, if I could just continue to turn up and operate at the standard I know I'm capable of, I could re- reach my full potential." And after a while, when you constantly operate at this place of not reaching your full potential, it just starts to eat away at your confidence.
It starts to eat away at your thought process and your ability to actually believe in yourself because you start breaking your promises to yourself, and you start self-sabotaging.
So the analogy that I actually want to give you to try and remember this consistently good beats occasionally great is a surfer.
If they literally went out, caught one wave back in towards the beach, and they fell off and they went, "No, I don't do this," and went back in.
They would never get any better at surfing, would they? Whereas a surfer, particularly a good surfer or someone who wants to get better at surfing, they always get back on the board.
Okay? And if you catch that wave in, you fall off, you get back on, you paddle out.
Eventually you will become very good, and that is you operating out of being consistently good, not occasionally great.
If you can embody, genuinely embody this quote and live your life as consistently good, it will transform you physically, mentally, emotionally, psychologically, personally, professionally, everything, because consistency compounds into something absolutely ridiculous.
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