#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.

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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.

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Episode Transcript

Agi Keramidas (00:00):
Welcome to Personal Development mastery

(00:03):
podcast, and this is anothersnippet of wisdom where I select
my favourite most insightfulmoments from previous episodes.
Today's snippet comes from myguest Rob Dix, who is a property
investment expert and co host ofthe highly regarded the property

(00:27):
podcast. The snippet today isabout embracing the journey and
turning our current strugglesinto inevitable success. Let's
dive right in.

Rob Dix (00:43):
There's always the temptation to take a shortcut,
right? Everyone has that.
Everyone wants to get therefaster. And I think you can
think that when you've achievedsomething, you built something
up, it's easy to for your ego togo. I deserve to be able to and
maybe I even should be able totake this and apply it somewhere
else. I should have an advantageso for taking this and sort of

(01:05):
parlaying it into this otherthing. But a lot of the time,
that turns out not to be true.
And there are multiple reasonsfor that. But one of the
reasons, I think, although Irecognised in myself, at least,
is when you start something,you're normally not that good at
it, and so whatever. So when westarted podcasting, we weren't

(01:28):
very good. When we good, thengot to a point by doing it over
and over again, that we wereokay. 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 beable to take the same formula,
the same audience, the samewhatever, and build a YouTube
channel, but we weren't verygood, so it's a completely
different medium. So of course,we don't deserve to do well

(01:50):
straight away, and there's noway to get good other than to
spend the time putting the repsin doing it again and again. And
I think that that's becomes hardto for your ego to come to terms
with, and I think that getsharder once you've had success
in one area, but you have to, Ieventually got to a point of
embracing it and go, wellactually, I wouldn't want to get

(02:11):
there faster, because if, bysome magic, I did get there
faster, then I would have somekind of eyeballs on what I'm
doing. I'd have some degree ofprominence in this thing, and I
still wouldn't be good at it. Solots of people would be seeing
me. Seeing me being rubbish.
It's better if people didn't seeme being rubbish. And it takes
the time to time to get youthere. But then the final thing
is, I sort of said the eventual,eventual and inevitable result,

(02:34):
because I think it isinevitable. If you spend that
long doing something, you haveto succeed in it in the end,
almost because you can't dosomething for that long and
still be bad at it. And if youdidn't enjoy it and you weren't
seeing some improvement andgetting some rewards from it,
you would have given up sopurely by persisting for a

(02:54):
decade, almost by default, youhave to have some success,
otherwise you wouldn't still bethere after a decade,

Agi Keramidas (03:01):
it's what to say to appreciate the journey rather
than, of course, keep your eyeon the destination, but
appreciate the journey, becauseit is the journey that we
experience. The destination. Idon't know if you agree. It's
usually very quickly replaced byanother destination, if you
start to look at it big Yeah,

Rob Dix (03:22):
it's all, it's all about the journey, isn't it? And
you and you think it's alwayseasy to convince yourself that
it's about the destination andyou need to have the you need to
have the destination, I think alot of the time as as a
motivating factor. But I foundthat as soon as I achieve a
thing, I don't care anymore. I'mon to the next thing
immediately. I'm sure it'd behealthier to take time and
celebrate and acknowledge andblah, blah, blah. But the

(03:44):
reality is, that's just not howit is.

Agi Keramidas (03:48):
What advice you would give to someone listening
right now and finding themselvesbeing on on the journey and
maybe getting impatient? So whatadvice would you give to a
person listening, it's hard to

Rob Dix (04:02):
come up with something actionable for this, because,
like, the obvious thing, theobvious thing is to find
enjoyment in the process.
Because, like I said, that'swhat we that's what we had with
the podcast for all this time.
And I enjoyed, I enjoyed theprocess of trying to get better
at YouTube. I enjoyed theprocess of trying to write a
book, and all of those thingsare very frustrating endeavours.

(04:24):
The whole point of being on anyjourney is it's going to be
frustrating at times. But Ithink if you can expect that and
then just find find little hintsof success to keep yourself
going and judge yourself againsthow you were six months ago,
rather than judging yourselfagainst how someone else is
today. Because if you're judgingyourself against other people,

(04:47):
there are always going to bepeople best in you, whatever it
is you're doing, and so that'sjust you're just going to see
the chasm between where you areand where you want to be. But if
you're judging yourself,yourself against your past self,
and you're just looking forthose little indications.
Conversations, even if it's onlytiny, it's just like it's just a
message from from someone sayingthat they enjoyed it, or
whatever. I think those are thethings you've got to hang on to

(05:08):
and ideally find other peoplewho are doing the same thing, to
hold each other accountable andkeep each other encouraged.
That's not something that I'vedone in any of the realms that
we've talked about, but I'vestarted to see the benefits of
having a peer group recently,and I think that can be
something very powerful.

Agi Keramidas (05:32):
Thank you for listening. You will find the
full conversation with Rob dicksin episode 380 The link is in
the episode description. If youenjoyed this podcast, can you
think of one person that wouldfind it useful and share it with
them? Thank you. And until nexttime, Stand out don't fit in.