In our modern age of TikTok and Instagram reels, we’re constantly bombarded with businesses and individuals that make us believe overnight success is a real thing. One day the person was just an average bloke, and the next they have 30 million views on YouTube.
It’s enticing to believe that can be us, too. We just have to hit the algorithm, the trend, the title just right and BAM, we may go viral!
We’re here to tell you that overnight success is a myth. What you don’t see behind the YouTuber who gets worldwide recognition are the hundreds or thousands of failed videos, iterations, and consistent days and repetition of putting in solid work that’s good enough.
In reality, that’s all we can control: not the output (fame, recognition, success) but our inputs (daily videos, articles, cold calls, reps at the gym).
If you want to be great, be consistently good for a very long time. That’s it. Rather than hoping to one day cross some finish line that will make you happy, make every day a finish line. Did you write today? That’s a finish line. Did you post something for your business? That’s a finish line. Did you go to the gym? Finish line.
That’s what it takes. Stack those daily wins and you’ll be amazed at where your life will go. No, you may not go viral, but at least you can say I’m giving it all that I have, day in and day out.
And if you can actually enjoy those inputs? The gym time or writing or making the videos or whatever it is you do, then does it even matter what comes of it? You’re winning at the game of life, my friend.
Show notes:
How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatedly, by Steph Smith
Tea In the Acclaimed Taiwanese Mountain Town of Jioufen, by Vincent Van Patten
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