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When ac/dc shouted, “It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll,” Not only were they talking about music. They were talking about life. About business. About anything that really matters.
Building something like a career, a company or a life that you are proud is not a direct shot. It is a climb. Most people give up before their boots are even binding.
I have lived this. I can tell you that there is no elevator, just some steep stairs.
Routine will verify you
When I started in real estate, I thought I was going to take off like a rocket. I thought I was going to crush it because I was hungry.
No.
I was begging people to give me a chance. He was making cold calls, but nobody responded. I was burning through my savings, wondering if it was only the phrase in the history of another person.
It is not just difficult. It is humiliating. That is the climb (I think Miley Cyrus knows what I’m talking about here). The routine is not supposed to reward you immediately. You are supposed to try you. To see if you are serious.
There were nights in which I sat in my car after another failed and wondered, “Have you finished? Or are you going to continue balance?”
No one talks about this part. Routine is where most people disappear in silence.
Everyone loves you in the finish line. Nobody cares in mile one.
When you are winning, people align to cheer up. They want the five to love you when you cross the tape. They want to be in the photo.
When are you losing?
When are you discovering it?
When are you working for advice?
Irons.
No one is looking when you rehearse in the garage.
No one calls when you are cold and you break and doubt everything.
I remember presenting open houses where no one literally appeared. Only me and the smell of fresh cookies, hoping that the aroma would sell the house.
Those moments? They are alone. But they are necessary.
That’s where most people take advantage.
They did not realize how long the way In fact is.
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The road is the reward
Victory is not what changes you. The road yes.
You can’t success in the microwave. You can’t do resilience.
You have to live it. You have to get up when you are ashamed. You have to move on when you are shit.
As you know, I am a great music collector. I have always loved how music paints an image, generates emotion and, most importantly, it brings together people.
There is a reason why AC/DC did not write, “It’s a short road to the top.”
It is long. It’s brutal. It is personal.
And it is worth it.
The stories are what stays.
The offers you pursued for years.
The connections that built that they were finally worth it.
The nights you went to the bed completely drained, and still appeared the next morning. Margin note: I have a lot of energy and I never drank caffeine. Once I became a dad, I met the most tired version of myself to exist. Ever. Still knowing him to this day, and generally that is more than a cup of Joe (or three) these days.
I used to think that fate would feel better than the process. I learned quickly: the process is where gold is.
Learn to love being beaten
Here is a lesson that I would like to have learned before.
You have to fall in love with successes.
Rejection.
Failure.
Starting again.
That is the growth currency.
Life may often seem that we are more a box of boxing than a human. I know I’m not the only one who understands how he feels.
If you are not being rejected, you are not in the game.
It is a long way to the top.
They have laughed.
They told me that it was not good enough.
They have not told me so many times that I stopped counting … twenty years ago.
And so I knew it was in fact doing something.
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The speed will not always save you
I love moving fast. But I build systems that make the speed sustainable.
Fast without a base will collapse.
I have built businesses that took years before someone realized. I have seen that people fill in six months chasing the shortcut.
The speed is exciting. Speed makes you feel that you are winning.
But most of the time, you are just building something that cannot support the weight.
The long road builds muscle.
The long road builds reputation.
The long road builds something that can really have the weight of success.
I don’t want rapid victories that fall apart. I want to build things that last more than me.
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If you are climbing, you are winning
You don’t need to be perfect. You just need to keep moving. It doesn’t matter if you are in step two or step two thousand. If you are still going up, you are still in that. You don’t have to have everything solved. You don’t have to be the louder (I recently wrote more on that subject).
You just have to continue appearing.
Success is not a party bus.
It is a background truck that you have to push uphill.
While walking through the Movedizas sands. While juggling.
The more ridiculous sounds, the more exactly I describe how the trip feels. If you are sweating, fighting, still standing? You are already winning.
The upper part is not a magical place. It is the next step. It is the decision to move forward.
Remember, If you are on the long way, well. That means you are exactly where you are supposed to be.
Go ahead. The upper part does not go anywhere.
#win #Lace #long #climb
