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We are often in a rush.
I’m definitely feeling it on many days.
I think my progress is to slow.
My plan is always tight for time.
I plan too much for too little time.
Then I need to look up, let in a sense of time.
In forestry, there is a saying:
“Wood grows on wood.”
Older trees grow more wood per year than smaller trees — if both grow slow.
The bigger, older tree will have added a multiple amount of wood compared to the smaller, younger tree because its diameter is so much bigger.
Yet the small tree can do nothing about it.
It grows further and further.
In 100 years, the small tree will be the big tree.
We sometimes look for ways to speed things up because we want the results of the old tree.
I feel this way often.
In reality, the big boys, I envy, only write one small post per day —
but they have been doing so for 2, 3 or 5 years.
They have been posting one video per week for 7 years.
There is a difference that time adds to the equation.
Even if you would upload 350 videos today,
you wouldn’t have the same outcome.
This is why I started to think in decades, not in days.
These posts are way more attainable and will be progress —
but now there is a different scale of that decision:
Posting 3 videos per week for 10 years is posting a total amount of 1500 videos.
This channel will be hard to beat.
All it takes is to get better with time and keep loving the work.
By the way:
A daily newsletter for 11 years means 4000 newsletters written.
Those numbers seem crazy right now.
They are just simple daily actions.
Those 4000 newsletters come to about 1 million words written.
Now that is something that will leave an impact!
Don’t think too small in weekly outcomes. Think in Decades and you will see a huge difference.
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