Workout: Play the Long Game

You have to play the long game. You have to play the long game. Now I know it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that. But listen, if you don't have the momentum you want in your life right now, you haven't been playing the long game. If you've been too stressed or too burned out or you've over committed yourself, you're not playing the long game. If your health sucks, not playing the long game. If you're wrecking relationships, not playing the long game. If you don't have a vibrant, amazing community of peers around you, supporting your dream, cheering you on, not playing the long game. Cause playing the long game does not just take what shows up, it architects the future. Oh, write it down. Playing the long game doesn't take what just shows up. It's architecting the future. And I think a lot of people live mediocre versus excellent lives because they weren't playing the long game. They weren't thinking like, okay, three years out, how do I scale three years out, how do I stand out? Three years out, how do I have success unparalleled in this industry? Because you know, and I both know, many of you are here because you're in transition and something new is coming along and you're trying something new. You got a new hobby, a new way to make money, a new way to serve. And sometimes in that transition you go into survival mode. Survival mode is not the same as the excellence mentality, is it? Survival mode is, let me take what's here, let me do the bare minimum to survive versus think strategically and play the long game. Now I said a few things that I think are really important, like let's take that big old thing called burnout. Most people when they've become burned out don't think it was one big project that tipped them over the edge. It was little decisions, bit by bit by bit by bit by bit where they gave away their time, they gave away their freedom, they over committed, they didn't say no, they didn't sort of like lay out the turf, they didn't set their boundaries. And over a period of time, they burned out. You can survive on burnout for a long time. A lot of burnouts, you know, they're operating at a high level of efficiency. I mean they're burned out, but they can go six, seven months at that. And they don't take the time to step back and recharge throughout the day, not once in a while on a vacation throughout the day. They're not using transitions to recharge they're not using those moments to like reset, recharge, go at it again. And they don't do that because they believe they're invincible. They can't see all these decisions adding up to exhaustion, adding up to burnout, adding up to running out, like always looking out. A few months is part of excellence, isn't it? Otherwise you can deliver excellence once and then you crash and burn. And many of you know this, your success has been up and down. And really, if you look to the peaks and the valleys, the peaks and the valleys weren't successes. The peaks and the valleys were crashes. And that's how you know a person of excellence. Did they have this rhythm, this scale, this. Even if there were some like lower points, were those rhythms of excellence or, or was it, boom, launch that thing, crash, boom, do that thing, great, crash. And it was just up, down, and it was just crash, crash, crash, crash. A lot of people I can look over the last 10 years, I'm like, your last 10 years wasn't defined by momentum or excellence. Your last 10 years was defined by survival. And that's why this is important conversation today, trust me. Like, there's so many nights, I'm like, oh my God, if I just stay awake for four more hours, I can get these projects done. And you know what? And then I'm a complete idiot. 72 hours later, I know it will catch up with me. Those who play the long game don't compromise in the short game because they know it catches up later. And that catch up is a devil, it is a bear, it is a beast. It knocks you down. And what happens is you compromise three hours here, but then because that compromised three hours here, you're knocked off your feet three days over here. So if you'd taken the three hours to recharge, you wouldn't be worthless for three days in the middle of the week, right? I want you to have steady rhythm. That's what we call high performance. That ability to have long term success while maintaining your well being and your health. My friends, you so deserve that. Sam.