How do you keep showing up when nobody's cheering? We know how important consistency is to achieving almost anything. And consistency feels hardest when there is no external validation, nobody cheering us on, nothing that tells us to keep going. This episode is about where the strength to keep showing up comes from when the cheering has not arrived yet.
This year, the New York Knicks, one of the most famous teams in basketball, won the NBA championship after a 53 year wait. New York lost its mind. Grown adults crying in the streets, strangers hugging strangers on the subway. I saw something underneath all that celebration. I saw 53 years of showing up before a single piece of confetti fell.
That moment continues The Inside Job, Out in the World, my four-week series. Each week I take one moment from out in the world and pair it with a past episode that speaks directly to what is underneath it. This is week two.
After the introduction you will hear Episode 50 in full. I recorded it at my own milestone, fifty episodes of pressing record even when I did not feel ready. I share what imperfect action really looks like, the difference between modeling yourself on someone and comparing yourself to them, and the moment recognition finally arrived, and what I had to learn about receiving it without needing it as fuel.
If you have ever kept going long before anyone was cheering, this conversation is for us. This series is not about the exceptional. It's about the human. About us as humans.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN
• What the Knicks' 53 year wait reveals about every one of us, far beyond one team
• Why the years of showing up nobody sees are what make the celebrated moment possible
• Why imperfect action means showing up without the thing you thought you needed
• Why the dictionary definition of Self-Love falls short, and what it really takes to love yourself
• The crucial difference between modeling and comparison, and how comparison slides into criticism
• How to receive external validation without needing it as fuel to keep going
• Why consistency and practice create transformation, not perfection
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