Day 101: Burst toward our best...

A short motivational monologue by Chad Silverstein about the non-linear nature of personal and performance growth. He encourages embracing plateaus as part of progress, taking measured 'leaps' occasionally, relying on community feedback to expose blind spots, and focusing on incremental, consistent actions (80/20-style) that compound into larger gains over time.
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I've talked about this concept recently and it's just important to understand, especially when you're frustrated with the build to lead process. At any point, which is bound to happen with any process that you're. You're working on, the fact that your performance and the fact that your growth is non linear, it's. It's just something you have to embrace. And I think expecting it is important so that when you feel like you're in a dull and when you feel like you're sitting idle, you're on that plateau, you don't get frustrated because typically that's when people quit, that's when people stop and that's actually when you should turn it up. The real growth happens when you're in between and that's when you burst. And I think that knowing how high performers think and understanding what creates the catalyst to burst with growth is really important because you can't just keep growing at leaps and bounds. You take these baby steps and before you know it, you look back and you realize, holy cow, look where I came from. And next thing you know, when you measure backward and you see that growth, you know you can sometimes take a leap. So we don't like to take too many leaps and go too hard, too fast. I've learned that the hard way. I have a lot of people in my life that have held me back from going too fast. I like to go fast. And sometimes you have to know when to take a leap. And I think, you know, the 8020 rule kind of comes into play. It's like you're always taking these small baby steps, these again, this playbook of productive actions, never taking on too much, not trying to overwhelm yourself. You're not trying to put yourself in this, that chaos zone and the comfort zone. You're trying to challenge yourself. So you want to make sure you load up enough for you to do and constantly focus on getting those wins. And once in a while knowing yourself that you can take a leap and if you fall, you get back up with enthusiasm and you try again. And I think, you know, understanding who you are and where you are on the process is important, which is why the community and why working with others who are on the process builder's journey and the other builders in the band, it's important because you can have people who understand what you're doing, have been there, there, and they can help guide you, nudge you and see things that you can't. And that's the whole point of working on the together, always together. Because you have blind spots, and you have the curse of knowledge, and you need to be able to understand how to let it in when people need to kind of bubble those up and illuminate those. And it's hard not to triple D when people tell you things you don't want to hear, you know, but when you. When you block that and when you defend and deny and destroy whatever anyone is trying to tell you, you limit your growth. You stunt your own growth. You hurt yourself. And so being able to, like, see your growth as this kind of zigzags, find yourself low, embrace the highs, and really marry the mundane. I know Chad always talks about that and really kind of embrace that and just know that when it feels dull, that's many times when you're really starting to really gain what you need. It's like when people work out in the gym, you know, they don't get stronger when they're breaking down their muscles. They get stronger when they're resting, and you don't feel like that, but that's the truth. So that's kind of what's happening, you know, internally as you build your core and as you focus on this opus that you want to author, you're getting stronger every day. As long as you're working towards and moving forward, that's the key. So make sure you see your own growth that way. And again, check yourself the way you're thinking. Don't get too frustrated when you feel like you're not moving as fast as you want to. It's normal.
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