Are you frustrated that success is not coming quickly for you?

Spartans, welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Gaveneshesh part of the Spartan Up

podcast family where we bring you a new podcast six days out of the week.

And in this episode I want to talk to you about playing the log game or being in it for the long haul and this came to me after

seeing a video on Instagram and Instagram story on Joe and Joe was talking about the struggles and how tough it is to build the Spartan brand and he said you know what but that's the way it's supposed to be

Nothing worthy of achievement is gonna come quickly. It's not going to come overnight and

he speaks about being in it for the long game and it made me think I've heard that

before from other people we've interviewed for the Spartan Up

podcast like Gary Vainerchuck. Gary Vee talks about eating shit for at

least 10 years and Joe I think about how he started doing these races here up in Vermont, what started almost in his own backyard, and now it became a global brand.

And we're now in this world, this day and age where we want results as of

yesterday we want things quickly and it made me think about a very unlikely

Spartan type of guy, Rodney Dangerfield.

Now, he wasn't the best representative of Spartan health,

that's for sure.

He went through so many struggles as a kid in his youth, in his teenage years, and then as he got into comedy in his teenage years and early 20s, he never hit his stride until his late 40s early 50s.

He had a side business of being a comedian and his main business was putting up

aluminum siding on houses. He struggled all the way up until his

late 40s which is nowadays a time and place where most people are looking to

retire. He didn't achieve that quote-unquote success

until a time in his life where most people were ready to just retire. So think

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