Rapid gains in wealth, weight loss, or success rarely stick. The speaker uses redwood trees and bankrupt athletes as examples of why slow, incremental change rewires your habits and creates lasting results, even when it feels frustratingly gradual.
Good morning, everyone. Happy Thursday. Here is your moment of yes for today. It's a little foggy, a little chilly here, not quite what the rest of the country is getting, but this is our Florida winter. So your moment of yes for today is, as I've been sort of listening and thinking this morning, you know, I work with a lot of people, and myself included, and when it comes to growth and progress, it can often feel discouraging because We have this idea of what we want to accomplish or who we want to become, and it feels like it's taken forever to get there. And I can relate to that. And so there's this desire to want to really speed the process up and get there quicker. Now the tricky thing is, is that we don't always see the amount of progress that we're making because really strong progress seems to happen sort of slowly and incrementally. And yet, since it happens so slow, we're not able to appreciate the growth so much because it's been becoming integrated into who we are along the way. Compared to if you really wanted to make a lot of money, if you woke up the next day and you had a million dollars, that you would see that leap in progress and it might make you feel really happy. If you're someone who wanted to lose a ton of weight, And you woke up the next day and you had lost like 50 pounds, you would go, holy cow, it feels so good, because you'd seen such a drastic change. The problem is when situations like that happen, when we make such a drastic leap from one day to the next, it feels so good, but is it sustainable? Are we able to maintain it? And odds are, most of the time we're not. Whether it's fad diets that allow us to lose a lot of weight fast Or hitting the lottery. Just look at the number of professional athletes who end up going bankrupt sometime in their career. Because what— and what nature teaches us is progress is slow for a reason. And progress is slow because as we're growing, we're actually rewiring our thoughts, we're rewiring our behavior, we are making our growth and our lifestyle sustainable. That's why our progress sticks, because it's a routine, it's a discipline that we are gaining and adhering to and becoming part of who we are on a day-to-day basis. You know, the tall redwood did not grow to be the redwood overnight. It's been hundreds of years, but it's been hundreds of years of steady growth, sustainable growth. And I can make a whole social commentary about the growth of our culture as well, but I won't. You get the idea. Slow is sustainable, and it's sustainable because we— it takes time for us to change our behavior and our thoughts along the way. Drastic can be fun, but is it sustainable? Wow, was that 3:08, 9, 10? It's a longer Moment of Yes for today. Have a great day, everyone.
