Overnight successes. We all love to hear about them. Long to be one, are looking for the shortcut to make it happen.
But countless successful people in all areas of life have been heard to say a version of this quote:
“It took me 20 years to become an overnight success.”
Tongue in check yes, but the point is valid. People always stand up and notice when others achieve massive success. From an outsiders vantage point in can appear that the success did in fact come overnight!
But when you stop and dig deeper into the back story of any person that has been successful at something 99% of them have put in a LOT of work and time before the success happened or started to show.
Take the area of fitness and fat loss. So many times we will notice that someone seemed to drop 3 pants sizes overnight.
One day they stroll by in the office and you glance them out of the corner of your eye, do a double take and say “Hey! What have you been doing?! You just got skinny all of the sudden.”
We then want ALL the juicy details: what did you eat? Where do you workout, who’s your trainer, etc. Etc.
We then take all of that info and embark on our own overnight success plan but uh, oh……two weeks in and we still don’t look any different. 4 weeks in we see a little change but n
othing like our friend. It’s then only logical to conclude that what worked for them is not going to work for us.
But is that true?
Perhaps.
But more likely this is the case; when our friend is dishing all the details about the hows, wheres and whys of their success we conveniently block out the part where they say “It took me several months, you’re just noticing it now cause it’s starting to add up.”
That “it took several months” part. We aint tryin to hear that.
In our eyes it happened “overnight” meaning VERY quickly and that is what we want. So we jump from program to program, eating plan to eating plan, and keep getting frustrated when a few weeks into it we aren’t seeing the massive results we see others get.
So today I want to motivate you to JUST. KEEP. GOING!
True success rarely happens quickly. There is lot of hard work, patience and time behind every success story you will ever read about.
As this week continues don’t get discouraged by seemingly small returns on your efforts. They WILL add up to something big if you just let it.
Given 3-6 months you too can be an (overnight) success. The time is going to pass anyway.