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Why Consistency is Only Half the Game

And what you need to do to play full out...

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Jo Barnes
Jun 17, 2026
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Howdy from Vegas! 🥳

It’s so hot here you could fry an egg on the pavement! 🥵

Before I start a raft of posts about all the amazing things we’re seeing and doing here, I wanted to write the post I alluded to in last Wednesdays article, when I talked about my Make It Happen Monday YouTube series and how even though I was consistent, it never really took off.

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(If you didn’t see the post and you missed me abseiling down Sheffield City Hall in a sexy hard-hat, go back, I’ll wait…)

So here’s what happened.

Every Monday, for just over 2 years, I recorded an episode of Make It Happen Monday. 109 videos, rain or shine (mainly shine as I was in Phuket), motivated or knackered, I turned up and published a video.

But my account nor the series ever took off. (I think the most views I ever got was a couple of thousand on a video about becoming comfy on camera.)

Which is awkward, because I, along with all the internet ‘gooroos’ pedal the notion that consistency is the secret.

Just ke…

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