Episode Transcript

What’s up everybody? Welcome back to THE a.m guys. Welcome back to five minute rants, I’m your host, Michael Abernathy. And welcome back to the show where we talk about anything and everything predicated on the journey of life business.

So ironically enough, today, guys, I wanted to talk about being journey focused, really focusing on the journey at hand, versus the singular event that comes at the end of that journey. And this is What I mean, everybody looks at the NFL players, and everybody watches them sign their contracts, and everybody watches them get recruited. And then everyone sits there and goes, Wow, I just want to be that, and I want to make all that money and have a contract and opportunity. And What happens is, we all lose sight of the journey that they went through to get there, all the work, all the effort, all of the countless hours of time spent grinding away to hone the skill set, and to go through the process of refinement, to become those people in order to sign those contracts.

So my business mentor, and one of my best friends played for the NFL. And we talked about this today, because I was like, I think that this is a problem. I think this is something that we as people don’t often see, we look at the end product all the time. And then he was like, you know, you say that it’s so true, because everybody watched me play for the NFL but they never saw me when I met my buddies to run, and we would run 10 miles everyday during the summer, and then we’d walk then we cool off, then we go to workout practice that night, all through the summer during the offseason.

He talked to me about that. And he’s like, nobody saw the journey. My dad used to say this all the time too everybody sees where I got in life, because my dad was a captain for American Airlines. He’s like, they all see me in the captain’s chair. But they never saw, they never do see all the work it took me to get there. And I think especially with how society is we have lost the focus on the journey and on the road. We’re looking at the end event, that cataclysmic ultimate thing that happens and occurs in our life where’s like boom, I made it.

That’s not actually how it works. I’m not saying it has to take a long time to do things. But What matters is the process of going through the process and going through the journey and then being prepared for that journey in order to complete it. And we forget that, we forget how food is actually made. Like I don’t know if anybody has ever actually been a part of a farm, has ever harvested an animal, has ever gone to a butcher shop in a slaughterhouse to look at how the animals are actually harvested to feed us.

There’s a journey, like think about it if you eat beef, right? There’s birth, that cow got birthed from a mother and a father. And then that cow grew up and that cow ate food and they went through this whole entire process, until finally, that cow was now sitting in a package of meat at your grocery store waiting for you to unwrap it and eat it and what we see is that final event of something that normally takes around 12 months to two years, because that’s about how long it takes for a cow to grow their grass fed give or take when they are there to wait. But that whole two years, in everybody else’s perspective is consolidated into a single moment in time. And that’s how we view how we’re going to get where we need to get is like that moment just needs to happen to me. It’s like winning the lottery and it’s really not.

This is oftentimes why we lose as people and whatever adventure that we’re partaking in whatever journey we’re on, whether it’s in house, marriage, life, we lose in this journey because we are not okay with where we’re at. So one of the biggest struggles I had in life was just being content. I always wanted to get to the next place. Why? Why don’t I just enjoy where I’m at?

And there’s nothing wrong with working hard. But if it’s out of this place of discontentment, right, and I’m not going to enjoy where I’m at What is the point of me even working anyways. And that’s really prevalent in a lot of the younger generation growing up a lot of the workforce currently and why we’re seeing gaps is because people want to enjoy their lives. They don’t want to just do What their parents did, and work their lives away. And then they never enjoyed them. They were never home with family and all these things, and we’re watching that transpire culturally.

And so part of it is, it does come from contentedness cool, I’ve got to work a hard job. I’ve got to work a job I don’t like but I’ll be content knowing that this is going to pay off long term for the greater good, and I’ll switch when I need to.

The next thing that we often miss in the journey is the humility to learn and then the patience for it to play itself out the way it needs to anyways guys, I think the point of all that I’m trying to say is this be focused on the journey in the process rather than that one singular event that seems to captivate everybody, and then ends up hurting a lot of people because they don’t actually realize it’s a walk and not just a lottery.

Anyways guys, I’ll catch you later peace