This is 5 Minute Friday!

I love this quote from Leo Tolstoy, who says,

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Patience is what builds greatness.

The more people I interview, who have been on this earth for a long time,

they talk about this as one of the key factors.

It's showing up consistently over time.

While paying attention to detail and thinking long term,

the more we can delay gratification,

the science is proven that you will create more greatness

and more success over time if you can continue to delay the gratification.

And in that process, build up your skills, your experience, your expertise,

and relationships over this longer period of time.

These are some of the most important keys to success.

If you don't have the results you're looking for right now,

you might be tempted to rush things to try to succeed as fast as possible.

I'm telling you, this is a recipe for disaster.

Rushing leads to mistakes, oversight, or missing better ways to do things.

You've got to be patient.

I am the most impatient human being,

and whenever I make decisions based on a lack of patience,

it's usually the wrong decision, and it hurts me far greater

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