Inches At A Time

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What's up gang?

Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

Get ready.

It's a new day.

And I had this message come to me this morning by way of a good friend of mine.

And I wanted to share it with you and talk on what I thought about it.

Because first of all, get you a network of people that challenges you to be a better

version of yourself and don't hate them for it.

You know, a lot of times people either, A, they avoid people that are going harder than

them or doing better than them or challenge...

You know, that challenge the way you look at yourself.

They either hate on them or they don't want them around.

I want to encourage you to look in your life and say, who around you can challenge you

to be a better version of yourself in certain areas of your life.

And try to keep those people around you.

I have a network of people that in the mornings we share with each other motivation, not every

day, not even every week.

But good messages get shared within each other, within the network, you know, over time

we end up just sharing, you know, whatever's on our mind at that moment.

All people progressing in life, all people doing well in life and all people that come from

the struggle that weren't handed anything and made it happen.

And so this one came early this morning and said, what kills people on their spirit in

sales, entrepreneurship or anything that depends on themselves for their income is this

one fact.

The mindset of I've given it all and I have only moved inches.

I've given all that I have and I've only moved inches.

Most can't endure that.

Most need a prize or a prize proportionate to what they feel their work deserves immediately.

Right now just in the process of things this morning, this is where the competition falls

off is they can't repeat that cycle over and over and the cycle doesn't stop.

That's why you hear people saying that the rent is due and the rent is due every day

because the cycle doesn't stop.

It's the same at all levels of maturity and growth.

And so let's spend some time here on that topic for a minute is that, you know, we were

talking specifically about people that work for themselves or people that are in a sales

position, you know, where your income is derived a lot from your output, your activity.

And what he was saying is people can't handle sticking with it long enough without getting

an immediate return.

So what I was hearing in the message is people want immediate gratification versus delay

gratification.

And so what things in your life right now are you getting frustrated in that you're putting

in a lot of work but you're only getting an inch or two ahead inches at a time ahead,

you know, and then back to the explanation of compounding interest, you know, reminds me

of the book, the compound effect, you know, where they said in the book, you know, if you

give, if I give you right now, if I give you the opportunity to have a penny, one cent

that doubles every day or a million dollars, which one would you take?

Million dollars right now or a penny that doubles every day over the course of a month.

And you know, by asking a dumb question, you know, most people would understand you probably

go opposite right, pick the penny because it don't make sense.

And when you play it all the way out and you do the math on it, it's millions of dollars.

But the, but the millions of dollars doesn't happen until you're beyond, you know, 20

some days.

And so the majority of that month, you would be working your butt off and be thinking,

man, I should have just took the easy road.

It doesn't make sense for me right now.

I passed up on this job opportunity.

I passed up on this thing over here and, and I've only gotten half of what I could have

had over here.

And I've worked my ass off for in this example, 14 straight days.

But in life, it's 14 straight months or it's 14 straight years.

It's, it's a process that you got to understand.

You move ahead inches at a time and it takes a lot of work.

You know, this reminds me of, of, of, of Jiu-Jitsu.

You know, a lot of you know that I'm a brown belt in, in Jiu-Jitsu, I've dedicated a large

part of my life to Jiu-Jitsu.

I've been doing this for 12 years.

And you know, I can honestly say, you know, I'm not the greatest in the world, but I can

honestly say I feel comfortable wearing and carrying a brown belt and knowing that I deserve

that and I can represent that.

My skill set is, is, is, is of, at least that level.

And what I can tell you is there's so many times where I have to drive an hour away to practice

because these are the, to me, the best in the area and the best competitors in the area

that I can find to learn from.

And I'll drive an hour away and I'll put in an hour and a half of work and then half

hour to get myself cleaned up.

There's two hours and then an hour back home.

It's a four hour process and really I didn't get that much better.

Inches.

And sometimes during that process I get injured.

So I'm doing all the work and then I tear something or I spray something and then I'm

out for a couple weeks or I'm out for a couple months.

And so it may seem like you're going backwards in life when you're, you can tear something

in life.

You know, you can, something happens to you and your business gets injured and it takes

you six months to, to come back from that injury.

You know, somebody backstabs you in your business or you had to change something or you made

a bad decision or something out of your control or somebody quit.

It may take you six months to recover.

That's like an injury.

You sprained your ankle, you tore your bicep, you broke something, you know, whatever.

People can understand that but that's where people stop.

That's where people quit.

You know, I told a friend of mine the last time I got injured in Jiu Jitsu, I tore my bicep

and the first thing through my brain was what does this make possible?

So what things can I focus on now on and off the mats that I didn't have time to focus

on before now that I'm focused on that I'm forced to something else is going to get

better.

So what does this make possible and then how fast can I come back?

How long is this going to take to come back?

No part of me was like, yep, this is it.

Quit, hang them up.

We don't want to go through this anymore.

It's my understanding is that's part of the process.

That's where everybody starts to quit.

And it makes complete sense.

I mean, logical as hell as to why you would quit at that point, but you just don't.

And then you got to constantly repeat that cycle.

And so that's what life is like is, is there's times I've driven an hour there for that

whole same for our process process.

And I've got my ass kicked and I feel like I got worse.

But in the process of feeling like you got worse, you got better because you learned how

to get out of a compromised situation that you weren't used to being put in that position.

Or you got exposed in an area that now you know that you need to work on.

And otherwise you wouldn't have had exposed.

Didn't you go there that day, which then leads to growth.

And so that's all about your mindset and your attitude in the way that you think in the

way that you look at things.

You can't have a positive life come from a negative mindset.

And so your mindset of how are you looking at things?

What is your perspective on things?

How can you encourage yourself that I'm putting in all this work?

But I've only got inches better.

Like if you were to look at that penny at the end of a week, all that work that penny

had to do, doubling all these times to not be worth nowhere near a million dollars.

But if that million don't grow, that penny catches up.

And so many people are, I remember a man telling me one time that was my coach in Jiu Jitsu

and he said, man, all the black belt is as a white belt that didn't quit.

Think about it.

People think, oh, these people, you just, what do you think it just popped out the womb?

And they say, here's a black belt for you, sir.

Ma'am, here you go.

Thanks for showing up today.

It's your lucky day.

Here's your belt.

It's black.

No, you had to go through that to go through every levels.

The the ass getting your ass kicked level.

I don't understand what the hell you're talking about level.

I don't know this move.

I don't understand.

I'm a nail to whoop.

I kind of got it.

Nope, I don't got it.

That whole process of years and years and years is what it requires in order to be successful.

But I think because people need an immediate gratification, this is why so many good martial

arts have gotten watered down because they're handing belts out to people now, which is why,

what I've loved the most about the art that I don't know how, but the jujitsu, the culture

of jujitsu has been able to keep it decently pure.

Decently pure that people are earning their belts in a lot of cases.

Like it's not this watered down, you know, they're giving out black belts in two years or

a year or three years or two, a 10 year old or whatever it is because people need this

immediate gratification to keep being a paying member of the business.

I'm going to give you a belt to make you feel encouraged to keep showing back up for the

business.

You could pay the business, but you really don't deserve that belt because this is what

the society has been birthed on.

But here's the good news for you guys is that the majority of people need this immediate

gratification and they're discouraged by gaining inches every week or inches every month

or inches at a time that 95% of people you will pass them up in your job.

If you just continue to show up day by day, grow with those inches, have a positive attitude

with consistency and don't expect an immediate gratification, immediate return every time

that you do something needing a medal or needing a reward, you're going to blow by 95% of people.

Because people aren't game for the process, the process sucks because you got to do all

this work, all this effort, all this time to get just a little bit better.

Think about that.

That's exhausting.

Driving all over the place, sweating all over the place, grinding all over the place,

sore all over the place and you only got a couple inches better.

It's going to take consistency in that process over and over and over and over and over

and over again to ever get to where you want to be and that's why people quit and that's

the good news for you.

Grinders out there is this is why you're headed in the right direction to get what you want

done because 95% of people are going to give it to you.

Things are going to get hard, they're going to quit.

They're not going to get it fast enough, they're going to quit.

It's not going to come easy enough, they're going to give up.

So 95% of people, that's why when you look at the majority of people, it's usually things

that are worth value, 5% or less of people obtain it.

How many people get a black belt?

How many people reach a certain level of financial stability?

How many people end up in the highest levels of the Marines or Navy SEALs or whatever?

Show me something worth having and I'll show you something that few people do and get not

because of a lack of God's given gift, not because of a lack of ability, but a lack of

patience in the process that you're not down to get your ass kicked and grind it out to

only get a couple inches better.

So you tap out one immediate gratification and say I'll just take what they're willing

to give me right now.

I'm not down for the long term process.

So you guys out there, just because you're listening, you're probably on your way to kicking

the shit out of the other 95% of people.

You're already willing to put in time like this.

I know you like being with us at the Grandcast Studios.

We appreciate it.

Me and listen, Josh, we're over here.

We appreciate you deeply, but I know you probably can find something more fun that you would

like to do, something that you could be doing with your time, but you're choosing to invest

it into us, invest it into yourself and invest it into growing yourself, which means

you're doing things at 95% of people probably are not willing to do.

Now the question is this, can you do it consistently?

What I was talking about with that text was about was consistency because that cycle don't

stop.

You got to build it into your nature of who you are.

That's why you got to love the process.

You got to learn to love the process because it don't stop.

That cycle don't stop.

But it ends gloriously for you and it's almost the guarantee.

That's why it's no certain amount of education that you need to get to where you want to go.

to go it's a certain amount of passion and discipline that you need. And while I'm on the

the subjective inches at a time, just man, loyalty is rare. Be loyal. Be a loyal person to people

that are loyal to you. So, so it's, you know, loyalty is tested when we disagree, right? That's when

your real loyalty is tested. Or where you have an opportunity to do something disloyal and it

would benefit you some temporarily, that's where you really see where your loyalty is at. If we

agree all the time, we don't really know who's loyal. If, if every decision that that we make together

benefits you perfectly. So, of course, you want to be around. We don't know if you're loyal or we

don't know. But when the benefit could be for you to beat disloyal, that's when loyalty really,

really starts to come out. And I think because loyalty is so rare, loyalty to the right people

on earth will be so deeply rewarded out there in America. That if you want to be different and

and you want to deal with with with some real real people for the long term, see how you can

see how you can show true loyalty. Now, the people that aren't loyal, you have to be so loyal because

you're going to you're going to hear people that aren't loyal, hate on you for being loyal and say,

oh, you're you're drinking the coolate. Or you're dumb or you're there so you're that now,

you can't go too far and lean on loyalty and you're getting abused at home and you're saying,

oh, I'm loyal, but my spouse is not going to my teeth on my throat. That's not being loyal. That's

being stupid. You got to get out of that relationship. I'm talking about somebody that treats you well

that has treated you well, that has done something for you in your life. Have you forgotten about

the people that have helped you get to where you currently are right now? Don't be that type of

person. People talk about, man, what do you want people to say about you on your deathbed?

What do you want to feel on your deathbed? I think that's one of those things on somebody's death

bed, man. Have I been loyal to people that helped me? Have I been loyal to people that were loyal to me?

Or that I take this Macavelian approach to everything and just once I've gotten what I need out

of you, I'm done with you and you're out of there because loyalty is rare. Look for ways

to show true loyalty to people that have been loyal to you and I think you'll be on your way to

live in a really good, loving, prosperous life as long as you're willing to pair that with the

cycle of don't be discouraged today if you're out there on the grind, if you're out there on a

mission and you're in the process right now and you're putting in a bunch of work and you know

you've made progress but when you look behind you it hasn't been as much progress as you want.

Understand in football if you only gained three yards at a time and you went for it every time

on fourth down you would get a first-town you would score a touchdown every single time you touch

the ball. Every single time you touch the ball if you just move three yards at a time. It's not even

I don't even think that's the average of a play I don't know but I know it's not far I know nobody

wants to do the process of of three yards at a time and it's not always possible but if you can move

just three yards at a time if you could just gain 10% you know on the money that I'm talking about

like 100 grand getting 10% that's only 10,000 for the whole year it doesn't seem like a lot

but when it turns into 10 million and you get 10% it's a million every year all of a sudden it seems

like a lot but the million was born the hundred thousand was born and the struggle was born in the

grind was born in the process was born over monotonous doing things over and over and over again

moving inches at a time trying not to be discouraged and I just want to salute you guys out there

on the grind and on the hustle it ain't easy it's so much easier to settle it's so much more attractive

to just settle and be average it's so much more comfortable and relaxing to give up on your dreams

and do it everybody else the other 95% of the world will accept you for for being

understand if you're in the 5% is trying to be different and do something special people are

going to tell you that you're weird you're not going to fit in all the time with people because

if you did you would be a part of the the 95% you got to do things think think things speak things

different if you want to be amongst the the the top 5% and I know if you're listening to this

you're on your way there so I just want to encourage you keep taking one step at a time I mean

we'll take the first down we'll take 10 steps of course and they'll come but I think the first

downs the touchdowns the home runs the breakaways happen when you just commit it to the process and

if this day gives me an inch and I had to work hard for an inch I'll take it if this day gives me a

yard and I had to work hard for a yard I'll take it if this day gives me a touchdown and I had to

work hard for that I'll take it just stay patient in your grind patient in the process stay committed

to the cycle and not need immediate gratification because your gratification is coming and it's going

to be built on a house of bricks not a house of cards because you built it from the ground up not

skipping steps into process seeking immediate gratification if this helps anybody please do me a

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