Welcome to the 10-minute entrepreneur podcast, intended to equip and encourage business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs,

taught by active business owner, best-selling author, and teacher, Sean Castrina.

All right, I'm excited about today's podcast. It's called It's Not the Home Runs. It's the foul balls that win the game. It's not the home runs. It's the foul balls that win the game. We always think we have to hit a home run. And you know, you get so many DMs on Instagram, on people that want everything to happen so fast and nobody's

patient. I always say, all my successes took 10 years. No, I really think they did. Everything

really massive definitely took me at least five, but there was no overnight successes. I hit a lot of foul balls.

Why do I talk about foul balls?

Because when you're playing baseball, you're playing softball, and you're up at the plate,

you don't want to get struck out.

And in a perfect world, you like to hit a home run.

But the foul balls are what happens in between.

The foul balls are the balls that could have been strikes that you just

nipped off and they go into the stands or they go behind you. They dribble over here and they

dribble over there, but they keep you at the plate so you get another swing at it. And I've realized

looking back over my success, I haven't hit a lot of home runs.

Man, I have fouled off a lot of balls that have kept me in the game.

And the game is life.

The game is the success game and trying to become successful and be prosperous and be wealthy and and build companies and and everything that

has to do with that so let me just take you through my journey just so you can be encouraged

because again no home runs but a lot of tipped off balls all right i was born legally blind

that just means i can't see she i my My eyes, it is so bad. Now, I've had

everything. I've had like, where they do the, they install contact lenses inside your eyes.

What is that? I forgot the surgery. I had it at, I'm in Baltimore. Basically, they implant, there

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