Steady Beats Spectacular
Oh, we did it. Here we are. 2026 is upon us. I have this quote I was thinking about earlier. It goes with our core values. Steady beats spectacular. Now, I am not saying that you are not spectacular because I think that you are. You are amazing, you are wonderful, you are great. And if you are near another team member, say, “Hey, Chad’s talking about you right now.”
But in all seriousness, steady beats spectacular. I think back to that tortoise and the hair book. We have probably all had it read to us, and if you have children, you probably read it to your kids. And it is about the steady consistency of the hair. Correction: the tortoise that wins the race.
And steady beats spectacular. Being spectacular is awesome, and it is great, and it is wonderful, but I have never met somebody who has been at the top of their game in business or anything and not had some challenges. I mean, there are some people that are amazingly talented, and we see them, and they thrive, but they have to put in consistent hard work to be that spectacular. They have to be steady and consistent at high levels of competency.
And if we want to do anything or accomplish anything, whether it be Northwest Enforcement or you personally yourself for your family, in schooling, if you think back to high school and college, it was the steady consistency. It is something that I work with my boys. They come home, and they think, “Well, I do not have homework tonight because the homework I do have is due on Friday, and it is Monday, so I have time to relax.”
Well, that is a good feeling to have on Monday, but then you get a whole bunch of other things and assignments and different stuff that comes up and problems and issues, and Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday fill up. And Thursday night you are burning the midnight oil trying to get all your homework done, or you end up with late assignments, and you work all weekend, and you do not have any fun because you took and decided to do less that Monday.
Steady beats spectacular. So, as you are moving into 2026, continue to remain consistent and steady like you did last year. Maybe even more so. Maybe you took too many fun days, maybe you took too many off moments, and you are saying to yourself, you know what? I need to be more steady. Here we are. We are five days in.
How many pages have you read in a book to better yourself? I will tell you what your answer should be. If you are reading 10 pages a day, you should be finishing up 50 pages right now. Ten pages a day will get you 300 pages this month. That is a book. Sometimes, maybe it is a book and more. Maybe it is two books.
Just depends on what kind of books you are reading. But if you are reading anything around leadership, if you are reading anything around bettering yourself, marriage, finances, whatever, there are probably 300 to 350 pages per book. Some of them have 6, 7, or 800 pages, so it might take you a couple of months to read it, but that is okay because it is a big book.
There is a lot of knowledge in there, and you are going to devour it. Steady beats spectacular. So be spectacular by being steady and continue on and take those small little bite-sized chunks every day. Keep treading ahead like the tortoise. Take one step after another. Keep moving forward.
And at the end of 2026, you will look back on huge accomplishments that you did in steady nonmonumental ways, but you will have climbed a massive mountain for you personally, maybe for you corporately, maybe for your family, maybe for your organization, maybe for Northwest Enforcement. You will have climbed and moved crossed great vast wastelands of desert, possibly to accomplish some great and amazing things.
But you will have done it not in a spectacular way but in a consistent moving steady pace. All right, God bless you guys. Have a wonderful week. We are in 2026. I will see you guys next week.
