Establish a steady pace to create effortless results

- One of the reasons that otherwise insecure overachievers burn out before they've achieved the result that really mattered most to them is because they take, unintentionally, a boom and bust approach to execution. Come with me to the age of exploration, when the whole world seemed to be fascinated with the race to the poles. Who would be the first to get to the South Pole? There were two teams that set out on almost the same day with the same goal in mind. The British team took a certain approach. Their captain said, "We're just going to go as far and fast as we possibly can," but without meaning to, what that meant is that on the good weather days, they pushed forward 20, 30, 40, sometimes maybe even 50 miles. On the bad weather days, they were so exhausted they ended up stuck in their tents, bemoaning their situation, feeling that no one had been as unlucky as them to have the worst whether of anyone who had ever…