Eddie Pinero

They had more.

They had patience.

They had the discipline to remain calm and collected.

That's nerve-wracking.

That can be unsettling.

They have the ability to be focused, to remove all the noise around them, the doubt that stops people before that desired payout is achieved.

And one of my favorite ways to look at this concept of growth is a little anecdote about lily pads in a pond.

And basically it's posed as a question, right?

So the lily pads in this pond double in size every day.

And by day 30, the pond is completely covered in lily pads.

So then what day is it half covered?

That's the question.

A lot of people, you know, instinctually, they say, oh, okay, day 30, half of 30 is 15.

So on day 15, it was half covered, but that's wrong.

They're doubling every day, which means the pond wasn't half covered until day 29 and only a quarter covered on day 28.

And the reason that's important is because that means on day one through 27, those lily pads were growing, they were working, they were moving, yet they occupied less than a quarter of that pond.

All that work for a result that was barely visible.

And then at the very end, the payout becomes exponential, and that's what success is.

That's what it means to pursue anything of significance.

It's days, months, years of unrecognized work, of marching forward, covering ground when no one knows or cares or believes, except you.