In this episode, we talk about how you need to have perseverance with your goals.
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista, where my goal is to give you quick lessons on how to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so you can have better careers, better relationships, and better personal finances.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones.
In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the need for perseverance on your goals. When it comings to achieving something, it rarely happens overnight, and if it did, then it most likely won’t be sustainable. If you look at lottery winners, 70% of them are broke again after a couple of years. They were not ready for what success brings, attention and people wanting stuff. They got lucky but for the rest of us, we have to work at it incrementally.
Les Brown had a great quote where he said, If you go by the yard it’s hard, but if you go inch by inch it will be a cinch. I like to remind myself of this because it can be real easy to compare yourself to other people’s success and what ends up happening is that you get less motivated and are more likely to quit or do something that is comfortable. I get caught up in how many followers someone else has or by the stuff they have, but I have to remind myself of my goals and where I want to go. So I tell myself, that I just have to continue following the process and it will come to me, eventually.
It takes 10,000 hours to become a master in your subject and you have to be deliberate about the practice too. When it came to my writing, it would take me forever to do write and edit a blog post, but now I’m much more efficient at it after doing it for two years. I’m in the process of applying to business schools and since I’ve made it a habit to read almost every day and to write blog posts, podcast episodes, and my online course, I know that school is going to be a breeze because I’ve been working hard at sharpening my saw one week at a time. My blog posts are usually around 1,250 words and I went into Google Docs to see how long that would be double spaced, and once found out it was about four pages, I was like damn school is going to be cake. Give me a 12-page paper and I’ll finish the research, the rough draft, and the final draft in a day. I already learn a lot of things so I can easily reference many different sources and get a general idea of where I direction I should go in. This required me to go inch by inch though for the past five years.
Right now I’m trying to build up my newsletter and Instagram following for my business, and it requires me to go on Instagram for an hour to like and comment on 90 different posts. I usually get like 4-6 new followers every day but it is requiring me to go inch by inch. If I tried to post on 900 different posts every day, I would probably burn out and just quit. That’s why going by the yard is hard. When people try to work out again after not doing so for a long time they get burn out because they are too sore to move the next day and then they don’t want to do anything. I’ve seen it too many times as a personal trainer, or maybe I just pushed them too hard as a Marine. Success is a process that needs to be built up brick by brick.
I know I want to have a successful company overnight so I can start focusing on different projects, but the journey on right now will give me stories that I can tell others down the road. Another thing that is helpful for going inch by inch is just being grateful for having the ability to work on the things that I’m doing. Every day I like to write down three things I’m grateful for and it gives me perspective on where I am in life right now. A lot of good things are happening in my life right now and I just need to be focused on those things and not worry about the things I don’t have right now. It’s coming but not right at this second.
I’m 33 right now and it’s crazy to think of much stuff I’ve done over the past 15 years since high school. I was in the Marines for 7, lived in Hawaii because of the Marines, went to Iraq, was a White House Intern in First Lady’s Michelle Obama’s office, I wrote a book, I started four different businesses, I worked at the Pentagon, I was married for 9 years, read over 200 books, listened to probably over 5,000 podcast episodes, and now I’m back in Oregon to build up my business so I can be a digital nomad in Latin America for two years so I can learn Spanish. All these experiences have helped me become the person I am today and it happened one day at a time. I learned a lot about the person who I am and I have a solid foundation that can handle a lot. When you grow vertically, you also have to make sure you’re growing horizontally as well so you can’t easily be tipped over. You got to be like a pyramid, and not a 100-foot tree with weak roots because the first storm will knock you over.
To recap this episode, just take each day as it is and do the best you can with it. If you have to work, go to work and get a little bit better. If it is a rest day, rest so you can fully recharge your batters so you don’t run out of juice. And remember it takes 10 years to become an overnight success.
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