Having taken a bit of break from foie gras-ing myself with social media over the last couple of months, I’ve collaterally been coming to terms with the idea of the time that things actually take.
Prior to this hiatus, I’d notice the content I’d be exposed to always had this cunning way of making me feel like:
- I’m always falling behind
- I’m never where I should be in my life or career
- I’m always lacking something
- There’s some hidden hack or shortcut lurking in my feeds that’ll bring me vast amounts of success, fortune and prosperity.
However, understanding a bit of how the business models and algorithms of these platforms work, I’ve come to realise that my feeling this way is by no means an accident.
Experimenting with removing these tools from my life, I’ve been confronted with an unfamiliar sense of coming to terms with the actuality of time, and the weird thing is, I kinda like it.
For starters, I’m realising that technology really inflates our benchmark for how fast results should be happening, and that there really isn’t any sort of quick-hack or shortcut that’ll bring in tons of business, financial in-dependance, increased social status or just solving all of our problems in general.
It would seem to me then that, all of these goals, ambitions and aspirations we have, are going take their sweet-ass time to arrive, and even then, it will only do so once it deems you worthy.
Overnight success seems to take about 10 years.
One could argue then that, like with investing, the secret really actually lies in compounding, and that by consistently contributing small amounts of your life & effort day-by-day, month-by-month, year-by-year, you’ll yield the compounded results you’re looking for.
It’s tricky though, because the truth is, that it really isn’t a glamorous process at all - it’s an honourable one, and honour keeps quiet.
Coming to terms with this concept has provided me with a surprising sense of peace.
Peace in the knowing that, everything that’s supposed to happen will continue to happen exactly the way it should, and that for now, I can just keep my focus on doing the best I can day-by-day until the time is right for the investment to start paying out.
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