#491 Why you’re not instantly successful when you try something new, and how to actually stick with it. (Personal development wisdom snippets)

Mastery takes time - every time.

Snippet of wisdom 72.

In this series, I select my favourite, most insightful moments from previous episodes of the podcast.

Today, my guest Rob Dix, a property investment expert and co-host of the "Property Podcast", talks about embracing the journey.

Success comes from persistent effort and enjoying the process of improvement.

Press play to learn how persistence, patience, and process can turn your current struggles into inevitable success.

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Transcript

Agi Keramidas: 0:00

Welcome to Personal Development mastery podcast, and this is another snippet of wisdom where I select my favourite most insightful moments from previous episodes. Today's snippet comes from my guest Rob Dix, who is a property investment expert and co host of the highly regarded the property podcast. The snippet today is about embracing the journey and turning our current struggles into inevitable success. Let's dive right in.

Rob Dix: 0:43

There's always the temptation to take a shortcut, right? Everyone has that. Everyone wants to get there faster. And I think you can think that when you've achieved something, you built something up, it's easy to for your ego to go. I deserve to be able to and maybe I even should be able to take this and apply it somewhere else. I should have an advantage so for taking this and sort of parlaying it into this other thing. But a lot of the time, that turns out not to be true. And there are multiple reasons for that. But one of the reasons, I think, although I recognised in myself, at least, is when you start something, you're normally not that good at it, and so whatever. So when we started podcasting, we weren't very good. When we good, then got to a point by doing it over and over again, that we were okay. When we started on YouTube, we weren't very good. So it's easy to go, oh, well, you know, we've got this podcast, therefore we should be able to take the same formula, the same audience, the same whatever, and build a YouTube channel, but we weren't very good, so it's a completely different medium. So of course, we don't deserve to do well straight away, and there's no way to get good other than to spend the time putting the reps in doing it again and again. And I think that that's becomes hard to for your ego to come to terms with, and I think that gets harder once you've had success in one area, but you have to, I eventually got to a point of embracing it and go, well actually, I wouldn't want to get there faster, because if, by some magic, I did get there faster, then I would have some kind of eyeballs on what I'm doing. I'd have some degree of prominence in this thing, and I still wouldn't be good at it. So lots of people would be seeing me. Seeing me being rubbish. It's better if people didn't see me being rubbish. And it takes the time to time to get you there. But then the final thing is, I sort of said the eventual, eventual and inevitable result, because I think it is inevitable. If you spend that long doing something, you have to succeed in it in the end, almost because you can't do something for that long and still be bad at it. And if you didn't enjoy it and you weren't seeing some improvement and getting some rewards from it, you would have given up so purely by persisting for a decade, almost by default, you have to have some success, otherwise you wouldn't still be there after a decade,

Agi Keramidas: 3:01

it's what to say to appreciate the journey rather than, of course, keep your eye on the destination, but appreciate the journey, because it is the journey that we experience. The destination. I don't know if you agree. It's usually very quickly replaced by another destination, if you start to look at it big Yeah,

Rob Dix: 3:22

it's all, it's all about the journey, isn't it? And you and you think it's always easy to convince yourself that it's about the destination and you need to have the you need to have the destination, I think a lot of the time as as a motivating factor. But I found that as soon as I achieve a thing, I don't care anymore. I'm on to the next thing immediately. I'm sure it'd be healthier to take time and celebrate and acknowledge and blah, blah, blah. But the reality is, that's just not how it is.

Agi Keramidas: 3:48

What advice you would give to someone listening right now and finding themselves being on on the journey and maybe getting impatient? So what advice would you give to a person listening, it's hard to

Rob Dix: 4:02

come up with something actionable for this, because, like, the obvious thing, the obvious thing is to find enjoyment in the process. Because, like I said, that's what we that's what we had with the podcast for all this time. And I enjoyed, I enjoyed the process of trying to get better at YouTube. I enjoyed the process of trying to write a book, and all of those things are very frustrating endeavours. The whole point of being on any journey is it's going to be frustrating at times. But I think if you can expect that and then just find find little hints of success to keep yourself going and judge yourself against how you were six months ago, rather than judging yourself against how someone else is today. Because if you're judging yourself against other people, there are always going to be people best in you, whatever it is you're doing, and so that's just you're just going to see the chasm between where you are and where you want to be. But if you're judging yourself, yourself against your past self, and you're just looking for those little indications. Conversations, even if it's only tiny, it's just like it's just a message from from someone saying that they enjoyed it, or whatever. I think those are the things you've got to hang on to and ideally find other people who are doing the same thing, to hold each other accountable and keep each other encouraged. That's not something that I've done in any of the realms that we've talked about, but I've started to see the benefits of having a peer group recently, and I think that can be something very powerful.

Agi Keramidas: 5:32

Thank you for listening. You will find the full conversation with Rob dicks in episode 380 The link is in the episode description. If you enjoyed this podcast, can you think of one person that would find it useful and share it with them? Thank you. And until next time, Stand out don't fit in.