Episode 301
Your Efforts Count
A lot of the actions we take don’t bear fruit. Perhaps 1% or less of the changes we try to effect actually manifest themselves in this world.
In the short term, it might seem like our actions are futile, like throwing dust in the wind. However, just like a seed buried in the earth, sprouting its first sprout, a lot of the impact begins below the surface.
We might go to the gym for a few months, not closely monitoring our progress. Then we happen to run into an old friend and they say “Wow! It looks like you’re taking care of yourself; your posture looks much better!”
Or we begin a personal development journey in another area, and another friend tells us “You seem so much more confident!”
No matter what happens with a project, whatever changes occur in the world… When we take action, we do succeed in making changes in ourselves.
Hosts & Guests
Kurt Robinson
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This is how your life is already wonderful so I’d like to talk about how your efforts count.
Many times in life we start to wonder all of the times, all of the effort we put into something trying to create something valuable, move forward and inspire others. Those efforts do not always pan out.
It seems like perhaps that maybe 1 percent less of the change that we try to have, effect actually comes out into the world. I know and many times I say this to my clients, “yes your efforts do count. It might seem in the moment that these things are just a waste or that the changes that you are attempting to implement, the efforts you put in and every attempt just pissing in the ocean.
Nothing is changing because of it but these things often go on below the surface so it’s not always immediately obvious the things that we do how they affect life around us.
Similar to how when we go to the gym, we might forget to take photos of ourselves in the months before we go to the gym or in the beginning of our health journey and then we don’t notice how much difference our efforts are made. Then maybe a few months later we run into a friend and they say to us “What’s happening, you look more radiant and vibrant and I notice muscle tone coming out. You’ve obviously been making some changes in your self.”
You might be like Oh I didn’t even realize.
Likewise you run into friends from years later and people might be a bit shy to say these things sometimes. But sometimes it circles around to us and we hear it in rumors whats his face noticed how much you had changed. They noticed you are more confident or there is something special about you. That you seem more happy, more present, more clear.
These things come as a result of our practices of being more conscious about our beliefs, thoughts, speech and action. These things to matter and your efforts do matter. In fact they matter a lot. They make all the difference. Those small changes, those little chips that we make at that marble to form the grand sculpture.
Slowly, slowly yes it comes together. This great artwork that is your life, that is your purity of being.
Thank you for making those efforts because your efforts count.
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