Less Talk, More Consistent Daily Doing
This image punches you in the face with a simple question: are you the shiny shovel or the muddy one? The left shovel is polished, perfect, unused. The right shovel is beat up, filthy, and clearly doing work. Business, fitness, writing, money—only the dirty shovel gets results. Less talking. More consistent daily doing.
The Visual Gut Punch
The beauty of this visual is the contrast. Talking looks clean, clever, and Instagrammable. Doing looks boring, repetitive, even ugly. But the mud on that shovel is proof. Each speck is a rep, a cold email, a post, a call, a tiny move forward. Your job: accumulate mud.
How To Become The Muddy Shovel
- Decide one tiny daily action that moves revenue, not vanity.
- Schedule it on your calendar before anything reactive.
- Track streaks, not dreams: count days done, not ideas.
- Shut up while working: let output be the announcement.
Consistent Doing In The Wild
Morning Brew grew from a college side project into a major media brand by sending one email newsletter every single weekday without fail.
Duolingo built an addictive language-learning giant by obsessively reinforcing daily streaks instead of promising overnight fluency.