910. Faith It Till You Make It

You've heard of "fake it till you make it."
And you may have heard of "make it till you make it."
But there's a third level: " Faith it till you make it." When the odds say you won't make it, you still soldier on. 

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You've heard the term, fake it till you make it. Everybody has. That's when you feel like a fraud. You're putting on a front, hoping that you become the part. And then there's a concept that I learned called make it till You Make it. It. And that's a concept that I read from creative calling Chase Jarvis's book. And it's where you don't necessarily pretend, but you're just putting in the reps iterations, you're making progress, and you make you learn, you adjust, you repeat, you do until it becomes real. But I want to talk to you about a third one. The first one's fake it till you make it. The second one is make it till you make it. This one is faith it till you make it. Not fake it, not just make it faith. It there's a difference. Take the Wright brothers for example. The Wright brothers had no reason to believe that they could fly everything. They had the data, the textbooks, the experts. All said flight was impossible, at least for a thousand years before man could fly. Yet in just a few years, they were in the air. And when I heard that story, I was like, why did they keep going? Why did they push forward when all of the data said that it wouldn't work? Because they have faith. They believed in the work they were doing. They were pulled by curiosity and driven by something deeper. That's that hum inside. That's that voice that whispers. I can't do this yet. You still do it. Anyway, that's a calling. And when you have that kind of calling, I. When the odds say no, you go anyway, because the thing about odds, odds require someone on the other side to succeed. Otherwise, it's not called odds. It's called a guarantee. Faith until you make it. See, that's something that's spiritual. It's developmental, it's a grind, it's a hum. It's a growth. I heard something recently that just totally resonated with me. People overestimate what God can do in a year, yet they underestimate what he can do in 10, 20, or even 40 years. So you gotta be in it for the long haul. There's a spiritual evolution that's happening inside of you. Don't rush it, just work it. You may be in a make it till you make it phase, and that's cool, noble, that's cool. You're putting in the work, you're improving, you're getting better, but eventually you're gonna hit a point where only faith can carry you Further. Faith means that there's no guarantee. Faith means that you keep going despite the data. Faith means that you work while you wait, because Faith without Works is dead. And if you haven't found your thing yet, you will right now. Just keep making it. But stay open, stay receptive. There's a next level. There's something greater that you can't currently see. Right now, something's calling you higher. For me, it's making a living at being a full-time podcaster. From where I stand right now from my past. It seems impossible yet. Isn't that what most dreams are? It should be. Otherwise it'd be just reality. Dreams are where you're standing here with something. You have this internal hum, something that's pulling at you. Something that, regardless of the odds, in spite of the odds, in spite of the obstacles, in spite of what it looks like right now. You gotta keep going, not for fame, but for freedom. I wanna be able to travel with my family, live boldly, be flexible, yet challenged free, yet still climbing. So I bring this to you to ask you, what's that thing for you? For me, I don't know how far off it is. I don't, I don't even know what it totally looks like yet, but I know it's mine. What's yours? Just keep showing up, keep learning, keep evolving, keep living what you're learning because the journey I'm on isn't just for me. It's so that I can turn around and help others, especially people in their forties. Fifties and sixties I wanna show 'em what's possible on the other side of too late. See, too late is a lie. So what are you building? What are you dreaming? What's the thing that keeps tapping you on the shoulder? Faith until you make it. Yes, it's gonna take courage. Yes, it's gonna be an investment and there are no guarantees. You're not just chasing the outcome, you're chasing something new, someone new. That's why it's so hard for me to explain to others, and I really don't talk about it much at all, because it's not just about, it's not even about the object or the result. It's that I can't quench that internal burn. That internal fire and I get there are odds. I don't care. See, odds mean that someone made it odds prove possibility because if it were impossible, it wouldn't be called odds, it'd be called certainty. The way I look at it is I'd rather try and fail than succeed at never trying. That's a fact. You can book it. So let me ask you again, what's your faith until you make it? What's that soul stirring, heart thumping thing that you're willing to go all in, even if no one else believes? Because the truth of the matter is you don't need anyone else to believe you believe. And you faith it till you make it. Let's get outta here. Keep it simple. Keep it moving. Never settle. Stay tough. Peace.