In Progress

Hi, guys. My name is Donny Rouse, and you are listening to the podcast One Life in Progress. One of the most challenging things I find in my goals is sometimes I'm very difficult on myself with regard to the results. I see. But if we are to do anything right, we have to get away from this idea of instant gratification. The idea that if we don't have it within a day, a week, a month of setting after that goal, that it's not going to come is just not true. Everything takes time. Everything takes action. And if you're taking continual action, like the successes, those little small successes you have will compound, and if you do it enough, eventually you will arrive at that end goal. It's kind of like the that saying that says the journey of a thousand of a thousand miles starts with one step or something like that. I might even be paraphrasing it. And so the reason why I'm sharing this podcast anyways, this is like ad hoc. I'm not even. I didn't even try to jot down notes to outline what I'm about to share with you. But I know it'll be extremely important nonetheless, and it's fairly easy to organize this, and I know it'll be beneficial. So stick with me here in my business, I had been working with my coffee business for over a decade now, longest I've ever committed to anything. So it's, you know, sometimes things get mundane, sometimes you don't. I don't see the result that I want in the time that I want. You often hear the quote, they say, it's not your timeline, it's God's timeline. Like, God's timeline is very different from yours, right? If you want the result, you'd want to see it very next day. But God's timeline says, you know what, Listen, this is who we have to mold you to become in order for you to get that result that you want. And that needs to say, like, the reason why we are proud of, like, the achievements we have in our life is because of the challenge, because of the amount of time and who we had to become in order to get that thing. So this example reminds me of my cold Roman espresso. I've been doing it for a while, and I'm building, like, a new brewing system, a new processing process of making my espresso. But what I realized was I was getting all worked up and I was like, this is never gonna happen. It's never gonna happen because I would be buying pieces of equipment and all sudden, like, you Know, one piece equipment might take three months to come in. Another one is, like, you know, maybe even longer than that. And one. Some pieces are, like, here in the day, but it's not in the syntax. It's not like when I need it, right? Like, the one piece that came in a day, I don't need that until later out. And I'm still missing all the other parts. So I was thinking about all these things, and I was fluttering my mind. I was like, well, you know what? Isn't it true that every single thing takes time? If I look back maybe five years ago, even some of the recipes I have for the espressos that I make, like, I make different flavored espressos. And there was a recipe, I had done one recently, which was. It's called Cold Roman Harvest. It's a pumpkin spice espresso. I literally was making this. I made the pumpkin spice espresso, I think, about seven years ago, and I wasn't happy with, like, the result that I had seven years ago. It was like, I always had pumpkin puree and all this other stuff, and it was just like a texture thing, and it was a little bit overly sweet. So I had put it aside. I hadn't made it in probably, like, five, six years, but I would. In that time frame, I would pick it up from time to time and just kind of play around with the recipe to see if I can make some kind of tweak where I would be happy with it. Because pumpkin spice, as well as, like, stuff like gingerbread, which I haven't nailed yet, but I will, are two of my favorite flavors for the holidays. So I kept picking it up, picking up and abandoning it because I wasn't getting the result I wanted. This past year, a customer of mine brought in a company's, like, a coffee company's pumpkin spice. Like, I think it was like a Vietnamese coffee dripper. And I was looking at it, and I'm like, all right. She said, you have to try it. And I think she. I don't know if she brought one to me or. I went to the store, and I just bought a box of it. And as I was looking on the box, I noticed I was looking at the ingredients. I was like, all right. Nutmeg, cinnamon. All right, well, where the hell are all the other pumpkin spices? I mean, isn't there, like, pumpkin in it? Isn't there allspice? And I was looking through the spices in real. And I brewed that. I brewed the coffee. I. You know, I added, like, some, like, Milk to and everything else. Coffee wasn't that good. But I could see, after sweetening it up a little bit, it. I could see how the pumpkin spice came through. And I said, well, maybe I'm making this a little bit more complicated than it needs to be. I simplified the ingredients as well as the entire process and then added it to my cold Roman espresso. And the results were amazing. It was the best tasting pumpkin spice espresso that I've ever had. And all of my customers echoed that same thing. But when I'm looking at the amount of time when people were like, wow, you nailed it. I was like, the. They thought I nailed it in like a day. I was like, no, no, no, I haven't. I didn't nail it in a day. I had been working on this, this recipe for literally for seven years, on and off. You just happened to, you know, you, you brought me something else to try, which made me think of something else. I just. It took me seven years. You're seeing, you're just seeing the result. And you think that I, you know, like, I did it literally instantaneously. That wasn't the truth, although I am a coffee genius. So the point I'm trying to make is not to be hard on yourself and just kind of give yourself credit. Give yourself compassion. Whatever you're doing, look at what you're doing. Like, what is your goal that you're going after and where the progress that you've made. Life is about this whole, like, correction process. When you think of a plane that's taking off to a destination, I don't remember the exact percentage. They say a plane is off course, like something like 90% of the time. It may even be higher than that. But the entire time the plane is in the sky, it's making these small adjustments to stay on the course. And every time you learn something new, every time you fail, that's exactly what you're doing. So you are in progress. So I like to. I always leave you with a little exercise. So let's do. We'll do that again right now. What is one thing that you're working towards where you can't. You seem or you feel that you're not making any progress forward? And then I want you to question the validity of that thought. Are you really stuck? Are you. Have you learned anything as a result of maybe not making, like, what you feel that progress you haven't made? Have you learned anything? If you've taken anything away from that failure, if you've taken anything from away from that feeling of stuckness, then that is your progression forward, right? Because you're learning what not to do every time. And as long as you keep going, you will get there eventually. You can't fail if you keep trying. No matter. Even with my coffee business, I'll go one more time with that. I think of it, I'm like, oh, man, you know, I should be here, I should be doing this. It doesn't matter, right? The only thing that matters, I was letting other people's inputs influence how I thought about it. Like, I am in no rush. You know, I'm enjoying my life. I'm traveling, I'm doing something I love, and I'm doing this now, which is another passion of mine, the podcasting and personal development and helping people create life visions. So who the hell cares what everyone else says? It's my timeline. And I know that as long as I'm sticking with it, as long as I'm making progress forward, I will get to that end destination. Like my cold Roman espresso, my roska. Everything that's gonna happen, it takes time. And the worst thing I can do and you is to say, you know what? It's not happening fast enough. Because the moment you do that, you literally cut off the floodgates, the good stuff from pouring into your life. And that's when you permanently get stuck. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. If you did, please give it a share. Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast or my podcast. One day I'll have more people with me doing this, but don't forget to subscribe to the podcast, so this way you do not miss a beat. The life you desire does not happen by chance. It takes constant focus on the thing you want and surrounding yourself with positive information, positive thoughts, positive things that are going to move you in the direction and guide your thoughts to what it is that you want. Because everything else in the world is trying to take you away, trying to pull you towards what they want. So again, hit that subscribe button. If you enjoy great coffee, please check out Rouse Coffee Co. Www.rauscoffee.com r a u s coffee.com that is one way you could support me in this podcast as well as business support, so I could continue to give you some awesome content. And that is it. If you have any questions, feel free to send me a message via Instagram at Donny D O n N Y R A U s Again at D O n N Y R A U S. Thank you guys so much for listening. I understand that you could be doing a million things, but you chose to be here with me and to enrich your life. And I appreciate that. God bless. Thank you so much. And I will see you again soon.