Are you trying to microwave your success? Here’s what I mean: I don’t recommend ever using the microwave for food because it’s just a quick fix.
Trying to heat up food to get fuel into your body is killing all your nutrients.
The same could be said for any goal you are trying to achieve – your health goals, weight goals, personal goals, etc.
Trust The Process
Don’t settle for minute-made health. Food that is cooked inside of a microwave gives your food a lot of toxicity and a lack of nutrients.
That’s why it’s important to not be so quick to hit the one-minute button on the metal box that makes food piping hot. Instead, learn how to savor it, and how to develop it.
Okay, enough of the culinary analogies. The fact of the matter is if someone observes how wine is made, they realize that grapes have to be crushed to turn into wine.
Likewise, diamonds form under intense pressure, olives have to be pressed for the oil to come out, and seeds grow in complete darkness.
Whenever the feeling of confusion, failure, pressure, or the feeling of being pressed in darkness comes around, it is, in fact, a powerful place to be.
It’s a place of transformation, so trust the process, savor those moments, and savor those feelings of awkwardness.
The best things come from the transformation of overcoming the elements around you.
The Harvest Comes First
There will still be many moments that can make someone give in to the temptation to hit the “Start” button on the microwave of success and make a toxic meal.
It’s unhealthy, so it’s important to overcome the negativity–if a plant can continue to grow, even when it’s watered with dirty, murky water, then others can keep growing.
That means that even if there is negativity in life, anyone can filter it out and suck up the nutrients to keep going.
People can always overcome a lack of motivation with an action plan first, and by planting a seed in the ground first.
The harvest never comes first in the process of planting seeds, the planting does but taking action always happens before anything, and it involves being a little patient and seeing nothing at first glance.
Everything starts when a plant is in the ground and we don’t see immediate progress. What does that mean? It means it isn’t motivation that precedes action.
Action precedes motivation, and action brings motivation.
I don’t have to make progress right away, but if I plan and take action, you’ll reap the rewards by the time the plant has grown, and it will fill you with confidence.
When you start to see that the plant is growing, it will give you more motivation to keep going.
Action brings motivation. Don’t wait to get motivated to take action. Overcome it, and overcome the process of not knowing how.
By taking action you begin to overcome all the objections of:
- What do I eat?
- What if I don’t know what to do?
- What if I get stuck again?
- What if I fail again?
- What if I don’t get support?
- What if my family makes fun of me again?
- What if I don’t know how to shop?
- I don’t know how to do workouts.
- I’m getting overwhelmed with the steps.
- I don’t know how to lose the weight.
- I don’t know how to get off the medications.
- I don’t know how to save the money.
- I don’t know how to get a career advancement.
- I don’t know how to have success.
It’s not about the resources I have right now, it’s about being resourceful.
Plant The Seed
Here’s another analogy, going back to the seeds:
The seed has to be planted, but the resources only get absorbed after it’s planted.
More specifically, seeds get dropped into the ground, then they’re watered and receive that vital nutrient, extract other nutrients from the soil, and finally grow enough so that they can absorb sunlight.
The resources are provided after the action is taken after the growth has already started to occur.
After going through the dark place of transformation, the absorption of resources begins.
The needs are met as I grow because as roots go out, more resources become available.
So plant a seed, grow some roots, and the resources will come. It’s not about having the resources right now. It’s about being resourceful along the way, and that doesn’t happen until action is taken.
Quit trying to press the quick heat button on the microwave of success. It doesn’t happen that way.
It’s toxic for food, and it’s toxic for success – we have to take action and start to learn, and the resources will come along with the progress, and there’s nothing more motivational than a little bit of progress.
Become 1% better today compared to yesterday, and 1% better tomorrow than today.
The goal is to get 1% better in growth, progress, motivation, resources, know-how, overcoming “what ifs,” and overcoming negativity.
Then it’s a matter of filtering through what’s not needed and finding what is needed.
