May 27, 2025 • 23 mins
We're exploring the journey from seeds to significance in our continuing series on Building Big with Little. Diving deeper into overcoming the fear of starting small and recognizing the value in your current resources, we examine why these mindset shifts are crucial for success.
• Everything that is of greatness begins with a seed
• How we view our resources determines how we treat them
• The fear of starting small often comes from limited vision and experience
• Changing your community is key to pushing beyond your current limitations
• Surrounding yourself with people doing what you aspire to do creates immersion learning
• Your current resources hold more value than you realize
• Simple tools can build monumental achievements (pyramids, Great Wall of China)
• Limitations can become invitations for growth when properly perceived
• Wealth only amplifies who you already are - generosity starts now, not later
• Your vision determines how far your resources can take you
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Thanks for jumping back into our series on From C
to Significance Building Bigwith Little.
We're going to explore thosethree points and questions that
we had Overcoming the fear ofstarting small, recognizing the
value in your current resourcesand staying committed through
the quiet seasons of growth.
Episode one was awesome.
Let's get into episode two andsee if we can have some more of
(00:26):
this stuff out.
Let's go Welcome back to theAll Purpose Pod for an
(01:05):
all-purpose life.
Wherever you are and howeveryou're listening to, the Call Me
, mr you and the InspirationStation.
Thanks again for making us apart of your week.
We're so glad to be back withyou guys again.
We're excited about what wealready began to see kind of
manifesting from our firstepisode on this series of Seeds
of Significance.
It's a pretty insightful topicto me personally.
(01:27):
It sounds like it's resonatingwith you guys as well.
So thanks for jumping in.
Definitely glad to have all youbeautiful souls out here being
a part of this and, like we saidon our first episode in the
series, we believe that there'sa sacred truth that everything
that is of any kind of greatnessor significance begins with a
seed.
I'll say it again for those inthe back Everything that is
(01:48):
great and significant beginswith a seed.
We're excited about this topicbecause we believe there's some
questions we need to askourselves if we are indeed on
the road to success.
So we're going to get into itand those three points that we
want to try to cover today.
Hopefully we can get it coveredtoday Kind of what we do in the
series, I guess, because wecouldn't get through it the
first episode but the firstthing is exploring, overcoming
(02:11):
the fear of starting small whyis that a problem for so many of
us?
Recognize the value in yourcurrent resources not the ones
you're about to have, but theones that you have right now and
also staying committed throughthe quiet seasons of growth.
It gets hard, it gets lonely,sometimes you feel helpless.
(02:32):
How do you stay committed?
I'm going to do my best to walkthrough this series and walk
through all of these areas.
Hopefully we can get this donetoday.
I'm excited about it, though,but I asked a question last week
what seed has God alreadyplaced in your hands?
Some of your responses back arepretty awesome, but what do you
have in your hands already?
A lot of times we, as humans alot of it is greed.
It's perpetuated by selfishness.
(02:53):
We want to get more, because wethink that's the answer to the
question.
If we have more, we feel likewe're in a better place.
There's a young man that we hearabout in scripture.
He's been.
He wasn't given a name or hisname wasn't shared.
He was known as the rich youngruler, excuse me, and he was
known to have a massive amountof wealth.
(03:15):
He also did all of the rightreligious things that a person
would do they didn't murder,they didn't kill and steal, they
didn't cover that neighbor'swife.
All the good things he did.
But when he encountered theSavior, when he encountered
Jesus, jesus asked him to do onething.
You've done well.
You've done well your wholelife.
One thing I'll ask you Giveaway all that you have and
(03:37):
follow me.
Jesus was offering him what Icall the great exchange have
more than what you have rightnow, but more significance than
what you have right now.
He's known as being wealthy,but obviously he came to the
city for a reason why?
Because inside of him, eventhough he was doing all the
right things, all the religiousthings, and had wealth beyond
(03:58):
his own expectations, he stillfelt like something was missing.
That's the significance that wewant.
That's that important part ofus that we miss so much because
we're chasing all these things.
We're getting into that.
I don't want to go off into atangent.
Let's go ahead and try to startoff where we left off in the
(04:21):
last episode about overcomingthe fear of starting small, left
off in the last episode aboutovercoming the fear of starting
small.
It's a powerful, powerfulstatement the fear of starting
small.
I know people who have such afear of public speaking that
just the idea of being in frontof a room with their people
(04:41):
plunges them into a panic.
Their people plunged them intoa panic.
What if that person wasdestined to speak to people all
around the world, in countriesall over the world, and to
encourage them out of poverty,out of lack, out of poor mindset
and usher them into a wealthmindset?
(05:05):
That would change the coursenot only of the country they're
in but even the course of theregion, maybe even the world.
That one person has the abilityto do that, but they're afraid
and they're paralyzed becausethey're afraid of talking in
front of people.
You could have a seed inside ofyou that could mean
significance and still let thatseed die because of what you
(05:27):
think, how you feel the fearsthat you have.
Where does this fear of startingsmall even come from?
I believe it starts with ourview of the seed, our view of
the resource.
If you look at it like it'sinsignificant, guess what you'll
do You'll treat it like it'sinsignificant.
There are times when I was inmy hometown and we hear about
(05:50):
this a lot now, but it wasrampant there was a little bit
of racism in my hometown, butit's not like the kind of racism
that you will see in the South.
Back in the day it was a littlebit different.
It was more subtle.
When people think you're notvaluable and I'll just cut right
to the chase here If peoplethink you're not valuable,
(06:12):
they'll treat you like you'renot valuable.
It could be the way they talk.
They could be a little bitshort with you.
Maybe perhaps they'll see youstanding next to somebody else
who they think is moresignificant and more worthy, and
they'll offer that person moreresources than they'll offer you
, because they don't thinkyou're valuable enough to
receive those resources.
They don't think it's worththeir time to give it to you.
We're not talking about racism.
(06:34):
We're talking about the ideaand the mindset of how we view
our people.
In this case, how do you viewthe seed that you have in your
hands already?
You answered from last episode.
How do you view the seed?
How do you view the resource?
Is it too small to do whatyou're dreaming of?
Is it worth your time todevelop it?
(06:54):
Do you want this thing that youdesire, this dream, this goal,
this project?
Do you want it?
Bad enough that you wouldn'tallow that seed to grow as long
as it takes to produce the it?
Bad enough that you wouldn'tallow that seed to grow as long
as it takes to produce the kindof fruit that you're expecting?
My wife and I have been what wecall amateur gardeners, but it's
been almost nine, almost tenyears now.
(07:16):
We've grown a little bit ofeverything, at least once, and I
think we're way smarter than wegive ourselves credit for.
But, however, everything thatwe plant doesn't always grow.
We put seeds on the groundevery year, often twice a year.
It doesn't always grow.
What's my point there?
(07:38):
We view that seed as anopportunity.
We view that seed as apotential planting, a potential
fruit bearer.
One seed can produce 20, 50, 30fruits, depending on what kind
of fruit it is.
One seed can do that.
We plant that seed into theground and we give it water and
(07:59):
sunlight and we believe,throughout the process, even
though we can't see it, it'sgrowing under the ground, in
obscurity.
We can't see it, it's growingin darkness.
We can't see it.
Until it comes out of theground.
It starts the next step of theprocess.
But we believe that we put aseed in the ground.
It's going to produce fruit.
Everything great begins with aseed.
(08:20):
We believe that.
How far do you see your seedprogressing?
What do you do when you canonly go so far in your vision?
I feel like that's the biggestlimitation that we have when it
comes to the fear of startingsmall.
It's our faith level.
I'm not telling you to go runthe church and start kind of
(08:41):
operating faith and just behaphazard about it.
I'm just saying that ourexperience often limits us.
If you've never been aroundpeople who do big business,
movers and shakers it's hard forsomebody to invite you into
that world and you know what todo.
You haven't been exposed to it.
(09:01):
What do you do when you haven'tseen or heard the kind of thing
that you're trying toaccomplish?
Yeah, you get in your own headand you often quit and you
neglect that seed, you don'taccomplish the thing that you
desire to for so much of yourlife.
We want to go from seed tosignificance.
(09:24):
We want to build big withlittle.
A lot of times, we don't havethe experience to see how to
handle this situation, how to gofurther with this idea, this,
this goal, this dream, thisproject.
So, mr Yu, what's the answer?
How do we solve the overcomingthe fear of starting small?
Well, one thing you do withfear, period.
(09:47):
I don't care if it's bungeejumping, I don't care if it's
going up in the hot air balloonor getting on a roller coaster,
or elevator for that matter.
How do you conquer the fear?
You just do it.
You don't think about it, youignore how your body feels in
the sweats, you ignore all thescenarios playing out in your
(10:09):
head and you just go and do it.
In this scenario, I want tooffer a slightly different
solution in the fear of startingsmall, because everything that
you guys do, whether you're asmall business owner,
entrepreneur, if you're over anonprofit, or you're trying to
start out in the podcastingworld or in some kind of
(10:29):
entrepreneurship venture, you'restarting small.
You didn't get a loan from thebank.
You're starting small.
You didn't get a loan from thebank.
You don't have a rich relativethat's sowing into you.
You don't have no emailmarketing lists.
You don't have anything.
You're starting from the verybeginning.
You're starting from theepitome of scratch, but you're
(10:50):
starting, and that's the answer.
When it comes to being limitedby your experience, that's going
to happen.
I mean, last episode we talkedabout King David.
He didn't start off as a king.
He was a shepherd boy, and aneglected one at that.
He was almost not evenacknowledged as being a part of
the family.
How did he learn how to becomeking?
(11:11):
It wasn't part of hisexperience.
He wasn't around kings.
He wasn't supported orencouraged or mentored by a king
.
A king tried to murder himmultiple times, but he didn't
know anything about beingmentored by a king, what it
looks like to be a king.
But when the opportunity came,he stepped into it, put his fear
(11:32):
aside and he began to do thework, and sometimes, as simple
as that sounds, that's what weneed.
I want to offer a differentsuggestion here.
With the fear of starting small, what I found out and this may
be the answer to multiplequestions that we have in this
series I say that you shouldincrease your sense of community
(11:53):
.
What does that mean?
That means that if you havefive people who are speaking to
your life, I would, I wouldevaluate that.
Are they five people who arehelping you to grow from a seed
to significance?
Are they helping you to beginto take, to take, uh, put into,
to form the dream that you have,helping your vision take shape?
(12:17):
Are they helping you do that?
If not, it's time to reevaluatethe community and seek a
different level of community, acommunity that has done
something maybe perhaps you havenot done.
Learn this throughout the lastalmost 30 years.
Now, if I want to do somethingI've never done before, I got to
be around people who I haven'tbeen around before.
(12:37):
I got to take insights andwisdom and counsel from people
who are doing what I want to dothat I've never done before.
If I hang around Bebe andTaytay and them, they ain't
going to help teach me nothingabout what I'm trying to
accomplish, because they havenot accomplished it and maybe
even have no desire toaccomplish it.
I got to do this and I have tochange my situation.
(13:01):
I was talking to a friend ofmine.
He was talking about how hewent to a foreign country,
didn't know the languagewhatsoever, but he stayed around
people who spoke the languagethat he didn't know, stayed
around them for about three days.
Guess what started to happen?
He began to pick up on some ofthe language and began to start
speaking little words here andthere and was able to
(13:21):
communicate slightly with thesepeople who are it was their
native language, their nativetongue.
He said I don't know how thathappened.
I said I know how immersionthat's how Immerse yourself in a
community of people who aredoing what you want to
accomplish, even if it's not theexact same genre that you want
(13:42):
to get into.
I'm sure they have stories andinsights and wisdom and wise
counsel about overcoming fearand starting small to build the
empire that they have right now.
Change your community, changeyour sense of community, Change
your environment, change yourcircle.
You begin to see and heartestimonials or stories of
victory and be aroundlike-minded people who are doing
what you haven't done.
Let's get into the next part ofthe weekend, if we have time
(14:05):
Recognizing the value in yourcurrent resources, not the ones
that are going to come, but yourcurrent resources.
Have you ever heard somebody say, when I have a million dollars
and I'm rich, I'm going to takecare of this charity.
I'm going to donate to thiswhen I'm rich, when I get this
rich, when I hit the lotto, I'mgoing to go help these people
out over here.
I'll do this for so-and-so anddo that for so-and-so.
(14:28):
If you don't have a heart to doit right now, even then when
you have the wealth, you'llnever do it.
Former NFL star Deion Sandersalways said this quote and I
love it.
He said that just having moneymakes you a wealthier version of
what you already were.
I'm paraphrasing.
(14:48):
I'm probably butchering thequote, but you get it.
Sorry, y'all Stupid, that's allthat's going to happen.
If you're not generous now, youhave to be more generous when
you have money.
If you're already a selfishperson right now, adding money
to that makes you a rich selfishperson.
That's all that's going tohappen.
(15:09):
Recognize the value in yourcurrent resources.
What do you have right now?
Value in your current resources, what do you have right now?
There was a story in the Biblewhere Elijah came to a widow and
Elijah, as the prophet and aman of God and someone who's
considered a seer and a personthat hears directly from God,
came to this widow and said makeme a cake.
And the widow was like I don'thave anything but this little
(15:34):
small vat of oil and a littlebit of flour.
That's all I have.
And what he was doing waspointing her attention not to
the little that she had, butshowing her the value of her
current resources.
There's more to the story thanthat.
I'm just giving you a cliffnotes version of the story.
She did end up making a cakeand she ended up becoming
(15:57):
wealthy just by making a cake.
That story's awesome.
Check it out.
I guarantee it'll bless yoursocks off.
But he was pointing to her valuein her current resources, not
trying to highlight the littlethat she had and make her feel
bad about herself and hersituation.
We're showing her that in thelittle things you can do great
things.
Even the little things, themiraculous can happen.
(16:20):
There are times we put seed inthe ground in our garden and,
honestly, all the conditionswere against the seed growing.
It just shouldn't have happened.
I won't go into all the detailsand bore you with gardening
stories, but it shouldn't havehappened and it had one of the
greatest years we ever saw inour garden.
(16:41):
It was not projected.
It probably wasn't evenanticipated, based on how it
started, but it created thegreatest year that we ever had.
Recognize the value in yourcurrent resources.
Do you have people in your lifethat encourage you and boost
you and stretch you and push youtoward things that make you
uncomfortable, or do they coddleyou and keep you where you are,
(17:02):
in your discomfort or in yourcomfort?
Excuse me, what does yourcommunity look like?
What do you have around you?
Do you have books that help yougrow, books that teach you
concepts and ideas and storiesof victory that help propel you
to make some moves in your life,take some big steps in your
life, make some big leaps?
Who's around you?
(17:24):
What are you reading?
What are you listening to?
I hope our podcast is one ofthe things that you're listening
to.
I hope it helps you withgrowing through business,
entrepreneurship, purpose andall the areas of your life.
I hope it helps you withgrowing through business,
entrepreneurship, purpose andall the areas of your life.
I hope it does.
Our podcast blesses me.
It helps me grow.
It's a resource.
Recognize the value in yourcurrent resources.
(17:45):
If all you have is a hammer anda nail, you can build something
.
You may not have a chainsaw anda bulldozer.
All you have is a hammer and anail.
You can build something.
The pyramids of Egypt wereconstructed from simple tools
Copper, chisels, levers andramps and rollers.
They had to move massive bricksand lift massive bricks, but
(18:08):
the sheer scale of thesestructures was massive and they
had limited technology.
At that time.
All they had was simple toolsand they did what I think was a
remarkable engineering feat andachievement for all times.
I can't think of one personthat stood by those pyramids and
basked in awe of how great thiswork was and wonder how it was
(18:33):
done.
People don't say it's thealiens.
Yes, no, somebody built thatwith tools, simple tools, tools
that didn't look very great orspectacular, and they built
something great out of it.
And it's going on and on.
It's not even the first time.
The Great Wall of China Samesituation.
(18:53):
It spans over 2,000 miles,built over centuries.
How?
Using a variety of materialsearth, stone, brick, massive
workforce but they relied onbasic tools to get it done,
basic materials to get it done.
The builders may have beenresourceful and had ingenuity in
(19:15):
using those tools, butnonetheless they had simple
tools and they got that done.
Recognize the value in yourcurrent resources.
What do you have in your hand,like we asked about on the last
episode.
What do you have in your handand you can build with what do
you have?
Do you have enough resources tostart a lemonade stand?
Then start one.
Do you have enough resources tostart a clothing line?
(19:41):
Then start it.
The capital will come, theloans will come, the resources
will come, the clients will come, but start it.
You have value in your currentresources.
If you keep waiting for thefuture resource to come, you'll
be waiting forever and you'llmiss the opportunity to build
(20:01):
something now and grow it.
Does that make sense?
I hope it does.
We don't have time for ourthird point.
I don't think, but we'll comeback to that one.
But I want to ask you a questionbefore we close out.
How can limitations becomeinvitations for growth?
Look at the Great Wall of China.
Look at the pyramids of Egypt.
Look at the situation thatyou've been dreaming about for
years and it hasn't happened yet.
(20:22):
Maybe you want to start yourown hair salon, maybe perhaps
you want to start your ownbarbershop.
Maybe you want to start yourown car detailing business.
You ran into limitations.
How can it become invitations?
Just by how you perceive them.
Like we talked about earlier.
Your vision is going todetermine how far this thing
goes.
You can get mad and say, hey,this wouldn't get me a loan.
(20:45):
You can say you know whatPeople wouldn't support me?
They wouldn't go on my website.
I gave my business card butthey didn't call me.
You can say all those things,but your vision is going to
determine how far this thing cango.
How much do you believe this isworthwhile?
How much do you believe thissolves an actual problem for
people?
How much do you believe thatthis will change somebody's
(21:07):
world by having this business oraccess to this resource that
you have in your hands?
Business or access to thisresource that you have in your
hands, take your limitations andturn them into opportunities to
grow.
Grow from them.
David was a shepherd boy, excuseme, who wasn't thought of much.
His own family almost forgotthat he was even in existence.
(21:32):
That's the limitation ofeveryone.
But he was faithful and it wasan opportunity for him to grow
and he became arguably thegreatest king in biblical or any
other history.
It was a limitation.
He turned it into an invitationto grow.
You can do the same thing.
Honestly, I got a little bitmore left, so we're going to
have one more episode in theseries and we're going to close
(21:54):
it out next time.
So thanks for listening again.
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It's just starting to get good.
You.
Thanks for jumping back into our series on From C
to Significance Building Bigwith Little.
We're going to explore thosethree points and questions that
we had Overcoming the fear ofstarting small, recognizing the
value in your current resourcesand staying committed through
the quiet seasons of growth.
Episode one was awesome.
Let's get into episode two andsee if we can have some more of
(00:26):
this stuff out.
Let's go Welcome back to theAll Purpose Pod for an
(01:05):
all-purpose life.
Wherever you are and howeveryou're listening to, the Call Me
, mr you and the InspirationStation.
Thanks again for making us apart of your week.
We're so glad to be back withyou guys again.
We're excited about what wealready began to see kind of
manifesting from our firstepisode on this series of Seeds
of Significance.
It's a pretty insightful topicto me personally.
(01:27):
It sounds like it's resonatingwith you guys as well.
So thanks for jumping in.
Definitely glad to have all youbeautiful souls out here being
a part of this and, like we saidon our first episode in the
series, we believe that there'sa sacred truth that everything
that is of any kind of greatnessor significance begins with a
seed.
I'll say it again for those inthe back Everything that is
(01:48):
great and significant beginswith a seed.
We're excited about this topicbecause we believe there's some
questions we need to askourselves if we are indeed on
the road to success.
So we're going to get into itand those three points that we
want to try to cover today.
Hopefully we can get it coveredtoday Kind of what we do in the
series, I guess, because wecouldn't get through it the
first episode but the firstthing is exploring, overcoming
(02:11):
the fear of starting small whyis that a problem for so many of
us?
Recognize the value in yourcurrent resources not the ones
you're about to have, but theones that you have right now and
also staying committed throughthe quiet seasons of growth.
It gets hard, it gets lonely,sometimes you feel helpless.
(02:32):
How do you stay committed?
I'm going to do my best to walkthrough this series and walk
through all of these areas.
Hopefully we can get this donetoday.
I'm excited about it, though,but I asked a question last week
what seed has God alreadyplaced in your hands?
Some of your responses back arepretty awesome, but what do you
have in your hands already?
A lot of times we, as humans alot of it is greed.
It's perpetuated by selfishness.
(02:53):
We want to get more, because wethink that's the answer to the
question.
If we have more, we feel likewe're in a better place.
There's a young man that we hearabout in scripture.
He's been.
He wasn't given a name or hisname wasn't shared.
He was known as the rich youngruler, excuse me, and he was
known to have a massive amountof wealth.
(03:15):
He also did all of the rightreligious things that a person
would do they didn't murder,they didn't kill and steal, they
didn't cover that neighbor'swife.
All the good things he did.
But when he encountered theSavior, when he encountered
Jesus, jesus asked him to do onething.
You've done well.
You've done well your wholelife.
One thing I'll ask you Giveaway all that you have and
(03:37):
follow me.
Jesus was offering him what Icall the great exchange have
more than what you have rightnow, but more significance than
what you have right now.
He's known as being wealthy,but obviously he came to the
city for a reason why?
Because inside of him, eventhough he was doing all the
right things, all the religiousthings, and had wealth beyond
(03:58):
his own expectations, he stillfelt like something was missing.
That's the significance that wewant.
That's that important part ofus that we miss so much because
we're chasing all these things.
We're getting into that.
I don't want to go off into atangent.
Let's go ahead and try to startoff where we left off in the
(04:21):
last episode about overcomingthe fear of starting small, left
off in the last episode aboutovercoming the fear of starting
small.
It's a powerful, powerfulstatement the fear of starting
small.
I know people who have such afear of public speaking that
just the idea of being in frontof a room with their people
(04:41):
plunges them into a panic.
Their people plunged them intoa panic.
What if that person wasdestined to speak to people all
around the world, in countriesall over the world, and to
encourage them out of poverty,out of lack, out of poor mindset
and usher them into a wealthmindset?
(05:05):
That would change the coursenot only of the country they're
in but even the course of theregion, maybe even the world.
That one person has the abilityto do that, but they're afraid
and they're paralyzed becausethey're afraid of talking in
front of people.
You could have a seed inside ofyou that could mean
significance and still let thatseed die because of what you
(05:27):
think, how you feel the fearsthat you have.
Where does this fear of startingsmall even come from?
I believe it starts with ourview of the seed, our view of
the resource.
If you look at it like it'sinsignificant, guess what you'll
do You'll treat it like it'sinsignificant.
There are times when I was inmy hometown and we hear about
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this a lot now, but it wasrampant there was a little bit
of racism in my hometown, butit's not like the kind of racism
that you will see in the South.
Back in the day it was a littlebit different.
It was more subtle.
When people think you're notvaluable and I'll just cut right
to the chase here If peoplethink you're not valuable,
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they'll treat you like you'renot valuable.
It could be the way they talk.
They could be a little bitshort with you.
Maybe perhaps they'll see youstanding next to somebody else
who they think is moresignificant and more worthy, and
they'll offer that person moreresources than they'll offer you
, because they don't thinkyou're valuable enough to
receive those resources.
They don't think it's worththeir time to give it to you.
We're not talking about racism.
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We're talking about the ideaand the mindset of how we view
our people.
In this case, how do you viewthe seed that you have in your
hands already?
You answered from last episode.
How do you view the seed?
How do you view the resource?
Is it too small to do whatyou're dreaming of?
Is it worth your time todevelop it?
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Do you want this thing that youdesire, this dream, this goal,
this project?
Do you want it?
Bad enough that you wouldn'tallow that seed to grow as long
as it takes to produce the it?
Bad enough that you wouldn'tallow that seed to grow as long
as it takes to produce the kindof fruit that you're expecting?
My wife and I have been what wecall amateur gardeners, but it's
been almost nine, almost tenyears now.
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We've grown a little bit ofeverything, at least once, and I
think we're way smarter than wegive ourselves credit for.
But, however, everything thatwe plant doesn't always grow.
We put seeds on the groundevery year, often twice a year.
It doesn't always grow.
What's my point there?
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We view that seed as anopportunity.
We view that seed as apotential planting, a potential
fruit bearer.
One seed can produce 20, 50, 30fruits, depending on what kind
of fruit it is.
One seed can do that.
We plant that seed into theground and we give it water and
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sunlight and we believe,throughout the process, even
though we can't see it, it'sgrowing under the ground, in
obscurity.
We can't see it, it's growingin darkness.
We can't see it.
Until it comes out of theground.
It starts the next step of theprocess.
But we believe that we put aseed in the ground.
It's going to produce fruit.
Everything great begins with aseed.
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We believe that.
How far do you see your seedprogressing?
What do you do when you canonly go so far in your vision?
I feel like that's the biggestlimitation that we have when it
comes to the fear of startingsmall.
It's our faith level.
I'm not telling you to go runthe church and start kind of
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operating faith and just behaphazard about it.
I'm just saying that ourexperience often limits us.
If you've never been aroundpeople who do big business,
movers and shakers it's hard forsomebody to invite you into
that world and you know what todo.
You haven't been exposed to it.
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What do you do when you haven'tseen or heard the kind of thing
that you're trying toaccomplish?
Yeah, you get in your own headand you often quit and you
neglect that seed, you don'taccomplish the thing that you
desire to for so much of yourlife.
We want to go from seed tosignificance.
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We want to build big withlittle.
A lot of times, we don't havethe experience to see how to
handle this situation, how to gofurther with this idea, this,
this goal, this dream, thisproject.
So, mr Yu, what's the answer?
How do we solve the overcomingthe fear of starting small?
Well, one thing you do withfear, period.
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I don't care if it's bungeejumping, I don't care if it's
going up in the hot air balloonor getting on a roller coaster,
or elevator for that matter.
How do you conquer the fear?
You just do it.
You don't think about it, youignore how your body feels in
the sweats, you ignore all thescenarios playing out in your
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head and you just go and do it.
In this scenario, I want tooffer a slightly different
solution in the fear of startingsmall, because everything that
you guys do, whether you're asmall business owner,
entrepreneur, if you're over anonprofit, or you're trying to
start out in the podcastingworld or in some kind of
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entrepreneurship venture, you'restarting small.
You didn't get a loan from thebank.
You're starting small.
You didn't get a loan from thebank.
You don't have a rich relativethat's sowing into you.
You don't have no emailmarketing lists.
You don't have anything.
You're starting from the verybeginning.
You're starting from theepitome of scratch, but you're
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starting, and that's the answer.
When it comes to being limitedby your experience, that's going
to happen.
I mean, last episode we talkedabout King David.
He didn't start off as a king.
He was a shepherd boy, and aneglected one at that.
He was almost not evenacknowledged as being a part of
the family.
How did he learn how to becomeking?
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It wasn't part of hisexperience.
He wasn't around kings.
He wasn't supported orencouraged or mentored by a king
.
A king tried to murder himmultiple times, but he didn't
know anything about beingmentored by a king, what it
looks like to be a king.
But when the opportunity came,he stepped into it, put his fear
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aside and he began to do thework, and sometimes, as simple
as that sounds, that's what weneed.
I want to offer a differentsuggestion here.
With the fear of starting small, what I found out and this may
be the answer to multiplequestions that we have in this
series I say that you shouldincrease your sense of community
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.
What does that mean?
That means that if you havefive people who are speaking to
your life, I would, I wouldevaluate that.
Are they five people who arehelping you to grow from a seed
to significance?
Are they helping you to beginto take, to take, uh, put into,
to form the dream that you have,helping your vision take shape?
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Are they helping you do that?
If not, it's time to reevaluatethe community and seek a
different level of community, acommunity that has done
something maybe perhaps you havenot done.
Learn this throughout the lastalmost 30 years.
Now, if I want to do somethingI've never done before, I got to
be around people who I haven'tbeen around before.
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I got to take insights andwisdom and counsel from people
who are doing what I want to dothat I've never done before.
If I hang around Bebe andTaytay and them, they ain't
going to help teach me nothingabout what I'm trying to
accomplish, because they havenot accomplished it and maybe
even have no desire toaccomplish it.
I got to do this and I have tochange my situation.
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I was talking to a friend ofmine.
He was talking about how hewent to a foreign country,
didn't know the languagewhatsoever, but he stayed around
people who spoke the languagethat he didn't know, stayed
around them for about three days.
Guess what started to happen?
He began to pick up on some ofthe language and began to start
speaking little words here andthere and was able to
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communicate slightly with thesepeople who are it was their
native language, their nativetongue.
He said I don't know how thathappened.
I said I know how immersionthat's how Immerse yourself in a
community of people who aredoing what you want to
accomplish, even if it's not theexact same genre that you want
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to get into.
I'm sure they have stories andinsights and wisdom and wise
counsel about overcoming fearand starting small to build the
empire that they have right now.
Change your community, changeyour sense of community, Change
your environment, change yourcircle.
You begin to see and heartestimonials or stories of
victory and be aroundlike-minded people who are doing
what you haven't done.
Let's get into the next part ofthe weekend, if we have time
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Recognizing the value in yourcurrent resources, not the ones
that are going to come, but yourcurrent resources.
Have you ever heard somebody say, when I have a million dollars
and I'm rich, I'm going to takecare of this charity.
I'm going to donate to thiswhen I'm rich, when I get this
rich, when I hit the lotto, I'mgoing to go help these people
out over here.
I'll do this for so-and-so anddo that for so-and-so.
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If you don't have a heart to doit right now, even then when
you have the wealth, you'llnever do it.
Former NFL star Deion Sandersalways said this quote and I
love it.
He said that just having moneymakes you a wealthier version of
what you already were.
I'm paraphrasing.
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I'm probably butchering thequote, but you get it.
Sorry, y'all Stupid, that's allthat's going to happen.
If you're not generous now, youhave to be more generous when
you have money.
If you're already a selfishperson right now, adding money
to that makes you a rich selfishperson.
That's all that's going tohappen.
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Recognize the value in yourcurrent resources.
What do you have right now?
Value in your current resources, what do you have right now?
There was a story in the Biblewhere Elijah came to a widow and
Elijah, as the prophet and aman of God and someone who's
considered a seer and a personthat hears directly from God,
came to this widow and said makeme a cake.
And the widow was like I don'thave anything but this little
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small vat of oil and a littlebit of flour.
That's all I have.
And what he was doing waspointing her attention not to
the little that she had, butshowing her the value of her
current resources.
There's more to the story thanthat.
I'm just giving you a cliffnotes version of the story.
She did end up making a cakeand she ended up becoming
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wealthy just by making a cake.
That story's awesome.
Check it out.
I guarantee it'll bless yoursocks off.
But he was pointing to her valuein her current resources, not
trying to highlight the littlethat she had and make her feel
bad about herself and hersituation.
We're showing her that in thelittle things you can do great
things.
Even the little things, themiraculous can happen.
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There are times we put seed inthe ground in our garden and,
honestly, all the conditionswere against the seed growing.
It just shouldn't have happened.
I won't go into all the detailsand bore you with gardening
stories, but it shouldn't havehappened and it had one of the
greatest years we ever saw inour garden.
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It was not projected.
It probably wasn't evenanticipated, based on how it
started, but it created thegreatest year that we ever had.
Recognize the value in yourcurrent resources.
Do you have people in your lifethat encourage you and boost
you and stretch you and push youtoward things that make you
uncomfortable, or do they coddleyou and keep you where you are,
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in your discomfort or in yourcomfort?
Excuse me, what does yourcommunity look like?
What do you have around you?
Do you have books that help yougrow, books that teach you
concepts and ideas and storiesof victory that help propel you
to make some moves in your life,take some big steps in your
life, make some big leaps?
Who's around you?
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What are you reading?
What are you listening to?
I hope our podcast is one ofthe things that you're listening
to.
I hope it helps you withgrowing through business,
entrepreneurship, purpose andall the areas of your life.
I hope it helps you withgrowing through business,
entrepreneurship, purpose andall the areas of your life.
I hope it does.
Our podcast blesses me.
It helps me grow.
It's a resource.
Recognize the value in yourcurrent resources.
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If all you have is a hammer anda nail, you can build something
.
You may not have a chainsaw anda bulldozer.
All you have is a hammer and anail.
You can build something.
The pyramids of Egypt wereconstructed from simple tools
Copper, chisels, levers andramps and rollers.
They had to move massive bricksand lift massive bricks, but
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the sheer scale of thesestructures was massive and they
had limited technology.
At that time.
All they had was simple toolsand they did what I think was a
remarkable engineering feat andachievement for all times.
I can't think of one personthat stood by those pyramids and
basked in awe of how great thiswork was and wonder how it was
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done.
People don't say it's thealiens.
Yes, no, somebody built thatwith tools, simple tools, tools
that didn't look very great orspectacular, and they built
something great out of it.
And it's going on and on.
It's not even the first time.
The Great Wall of China Samesituation.
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It spans over 2,000 miles,built over centuries.
How?
Using a variety of materialsearth, stone, brick, massive
workforce but they relied onbasic tools to get it done,
basic materials to get it done.
The builders may have beenresourceful and had ingenuity in
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using those tools, butnonetheless they had simple
tools and they got that done.
Recognize the value in yourcurrent resources.
What do you have in your hand,like we asked about on the last
episode.
What do you have in your handand you can build with what do
you have?
Do you have enough resources tostart a lemonade stand?
Then start one.
Do you have enough resources tostart a clothing line?
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Then start it.
The capital will come, theloans will come, the resources
will come, the clients will come, but start it.
You have value in your currentresources.
If you keep waiting for thefuture resource to come, you'll
be waiting forever and you'llmiss the opportunity to build
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something now and grow it.
Does that make sense?
I hope it does.
We don't have time for ourthird point.
I don't think, but we'll comeback to that one.
But I want to ask you a questionbefore we close out.
How can limitations becomeinvitations for growth?
Look at the Great Wall of China.
Look at the pyramids of Egypt.
Look at the situation thatyou've been dreaming about for
years and it hasn't happened yet.
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Maybe you want to start yourown hair salon, maybe perhaps
you want to start your ownbarbershop.
Maybe you want to start yourown car detailing business.
You ran into limitations.
How can it become invitations?
Just by how you perceive them.
Like we talked about earlier.
Your vision is going todetermine how far this thing
goes.
You can get mad and say, hey,this wouldn't get me a loan.
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You can say you know whatPeople wouldn't support me?
They wouldn't go on my website.
I gave my business card butthey didn't call me.
You can say all those things,but your vision is going to
determine how far this thing cango.
How much do you believe this isworthwhile?
How much do you believe thissolves an actual problem for
people?
How much do you believe thatthis will change somebody's
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world by having this business oraccess to this resource that
you have in your hands?
Business or access to thisresource that you have in your
hands, take your limitations andturn them into opportunities to
grow.
Grow from them.
David was a shepherd boy, excuseme, who wasn't thought of much.
His own family almost forgotthat he was even in existence.
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That's the limitation ofeveryone.
But he was faithful and it wasan opportunity for him to grow
and he became arguably thegreatest king in biblical or any
other history.
It was a limitation.
He turned it into an invitationto grow.
You can do the same thing.
Honestly, I got a little bitmore left, so we're going to
have one more episode in theseries and we're going to close
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it out next time.
So thanks for listening again.
If you haven't already, pleasejump on our YouTube channel,
youtubecom, attheycallmemisteryou.
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Hit us with a subscribe andlike and share some of our
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And, of course, please commenton this series.
Love to hear your thoughts onthis.
It's just starting to get good.
You.
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