Short excerpt from a Simon Sinek talk advising that consistent, regular effort—even small daily actions—creates long-term value, while obsessing over short-term results or exact timing is unproductive. He cites exercise as an analogy and references his 'Start With One' game plan as his personal approach.
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Too many of us confuse that the short term impacts that we're having are producing long term value. Or conversely, having no short term impact means we're having no value. So, for example, you can't go to the gym for nine hours and get into shape. It literally doesn't work, no matter how much effort you put in. But if you work out every single day for 20 minutes, guaranteed 100% you will get into shape. When will you get into shape? No clue. Over time. And everyone's different. Some people a little quicker, some people a little slower. And yet we are 100% sure it'll 100% work. I just don't know when. And we're also obsessed with predicting when it has to be this quarter, it has to be the end of the year, it has to be when we pay taxes. And I got very comfortable saying, I know that if I stick to the process, I know 100% it's going to work. And I have to get comfortable that I have no control over when. And so the things that I wrote about in Start With One is the game plan that I have followed since I first wrote about it.
