The Reason Why You Aren't Seeing Results Right Away

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

One of the things I stress about why you shouldn’t quit is that you need to press and keep pressing everything to get the most out of the opportunities afforded to you. An analogy I like to use to explain this is a blade of grass pushing through the soil to enjoy everything the sun has to offer. The fragile bit of grass is beneath tons of soil and stone. It doesn't know if it is getting nearer to the surface and the sun, it only knows the direction it must keep pushing. Not until the instant it breaks through the cold soil into the light does it know the effort will be rewarded. A blade of grass, of course, doesn't suffer from the doubt and second thoughts that make our path seem harder as we get closer to our objective. In fact, so many times when we are just about to succeed and grow free in the light is when we quit because the dirt is just too hard. That isn’t what you want to do. In order to break through and become the person you want to become, you have to weather the layers of uncertainty and get through the “rocks” of life. Bet on yourself and the abundance of the universe with confidence knowing that when all is said and done everything the “Sun” or “light” has to offer will be worth the effort and trials. Everything will come in the right way at the perfect time ... just don’t quit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the flavor.
0:03.4	One of the biggest tetraments to people is that they want to attach their emotions to
0:09.8	an outcome, which I did for years, right?
0:11.4	I'll be happy when I graduate this, when I make this, when this girl does the, everything
0:17.2	was attached to an outcome and then once I realized why not enjoy the consistent everyday
0:21.8	persistent pursuit of the potential.
0:25.0	And what changed my life was probably what an artist thinks is that everyday compounds
0:32.7	upon itself and the problem with the pragmatic painting and the pragmatic world, the material
0:37.7	that you see, is you don't see anything when you're an artist or if you're a viewer of
0:43.9	art until it's 90% of the way done, right?
0:48.6	So all the real work of your sculpture, if I asked you, you know, it's 75% of the way
0:54.4	there, you know, what it looks like, it won't look like anything.
0:58.4	And I saw one of your paintings in the other, the house studio, and I asked you, oh, how
1:04.3	close to Dunning, you're like, I don't know, on the halfway there, it looked like nothing.
1:08.6	And the reason not so important is that if what you're putting into that painting is positive,
1:15.6	you have to be 90% of the way there until you see the positive result.
1:20.7	You have to have so much faith, right, how long did this sculpture take, for example?
1:25.7	So I actually did like the, I know it was done like 24 hours before this started.
1:29.6	It was the little sheer day before the opening night and I did the sketch for the sculpture,
1:35.2	I think like in November or something, and we worked on it like, they are all the way
1:39.2	up to the very day before.
1:41.3	Think about what you want in your life and going every single day, 12, 16, 20 hours a day.
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