Stay Patient

Stay Patient:

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Stay Patient.

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Progress doesn’t happen overnight.

It’s incremental.

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A little every day.

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Do that for many years and you’ll be astounded by the results.

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Remember all the people you see who are successful - it took them years.

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Years of work and some luck.

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You can’t control one of those things.

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All you can do is continue to show up and see what happens.

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It’s hardest when you’re a creative.

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Constantly fighting that self-doubt to share your art with the world.

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Waiting for the judgment from the people around you telling you it sucks or there’s something wrong with it.

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Screw them.

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It’s not about them, it’s about you.

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Someone in the world will hate what you do, guarantee it.

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Forget about it.

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It’s not your job to make everyone like you or your work.

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All you can do is show your work to the world and let them decide.

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At the beginning of my Youtube and podcast journey and it’s been fun.

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Lot more work than I thought to get to this point, but really enjoying it.

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Really enjoying reading my words out loud and hearing them.

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I know it will help someone.

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I know someone somewhere around the world will listen to my work and their life will be improved by it.

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How do I know that?

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Because it’s already helped me.

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I need these messages.

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I need this writing.

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I need these reminders about how to live a good life by this schmuck who’s figuring it all out.

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Some of the messages are so beautiful and so needed.

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Some of them are dark and scary.

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But they’re all of me.

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All of my thoughts on the world out there for everyone to see.

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Remember, there are no unknown geniuses.

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You need to work at your craft for years before you get good at it and you need to share it with the world.

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You need to step outside of your comfort zone and get over your self-doubt and fear.

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Your work deserves to be seen by the world.

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Because of the Internet, there are thousands of people out there who like the same things you do.

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There are communities for everything and by sharing your work online, they will find you.

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David Perell, a guy on Twitter who runs an online writing school, talks about this all the time.

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Writing online may be the single greatest way to get lucky in life.

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You never know when someone you don’t know learns from you and has their life changed forever.

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But that takes time.

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They won’t discover you overnight.

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So stay consistent, stay disciplined, keep working, keep putting stuff out there, keep taking chances and 

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Stay patient.

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