Welcome to 7 Minutes Sunday on the Switch Favorite Quick Podcast. I'm your host, Ayana Angel, and we are going to spend the next 7 minutes together getting you filled up with inspiration and goodness to get your mind primed to achieve greatness as you enter the week ahead. So this week, this is going to be a quick one because I just have one thing to say. Nothing comes easy.
Oh yes, I know you've heard that before. But I really felt like I needed to reiterate that because so much of our daily lives are inundated with things that make us think we can somehow skip the process. We can somehow do this one thing and it'll get us to the next step or the next level quicker, faster, before everybody else, ahead of our time, all those things. And that also helps to play into the psyche of you feeling like you haven't achieved enough quick enough.
It's all a game. It is all a game. But you can choose whether you allow this game to be played in your mind and whether you allow yourself to play this game with yourself or not. Because you can't skip the process.
None of us skip the process. If you look back on some of the people that you admire or that you really hold to a high regard in terms of what they have been able to achieve in their life, if you really pay attention to their story and dissect it, you will see that they encountered trials and tribulations, that they encountered things that they didn't expect, that they had to overcome hurdles, all those things, because that is a part of the process. So it's not so much about how can I get here faster? How can I do this better?
How can I achieve this quicker than everybody else? It's what can I do that's within my wheelhouse? How can I push myself a little bit further? What is realistic for me?
That's what you have to pay attention to. What is realistic for you? Everything is not going to be realistic for you. We were on Instagram Live last night and we were talking about a topic from this book and the topic was about passive income.
And it was a really good point that was made. It's not really passive income that most of us are able to achieve. It's more like less active income. So things that you set the foundation for and then they are able to grow and turn into bigger and better things that generate revenue for you without you putting in maybe the 100% effort all the time.
But that doesn't mean that you still don't have to put in 70% effort some of the time. So it's about having the perspective of what will it take for you or from you to get the results that you want realistically. That's what we have to pay attention to. Realistically, any and everybody can sell us a dream.
But are you buying? Are you buying? Do you really think that that's realistic for you? And I am not saying do not think optimistic, do not be hopeful, do not try and manifest the things that you want in your life.
Absolutely not. But what I'm saying is when somebody offers you a situation or when you think that you can have a situation where you put in little to no work and get amazing returns, is that realistic? I wish you could see my face right now because I really want to know. Is that realistic?
Most times it's not. Or there's a catch. You don't want to be involved with the catch, right? So I really felt like I needed to share that, especially as we go into the new year because we're in January.
Everybody's fired up. Everybody's talking about their goals. Everybody's trying to achieve bigger and better and greater. And with that, we can all be susceptible to the shiny pictures, the pretty things, the things that seem like they're going to be the best solution for you to achieve something quicker, faster, greater, bigger than everybody else.
And I'm here to tell you, if it feels funny, if it looks too good to be true, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is because you can't skip the process. You can't skip the process. I can't skip the process. Your homegirl can't skip the process.
None of us can skip the process. But the thing is, everybody's process looks different. So don't sit around comparing your process to somebody else's. Just be open and willing to do what is required of you to get to where you want to be, what's realistically required of you.
Be open and willing to do what is required of you. And don't look for the shortcuts because the shortcuts, those microwave results, you don't want those. You want those good oven-baked results, right? And in order to get those oven-baked results, you have to prepare.
You have to prepare the dish, right? You got to preheat the oven. You got to do some of your research and do the work and lay the foundation. You got to allow it time to properly cook and marinate in its juices and all that good stuff.
And then even when you take it out, you still have to allow it time to sit before you just dig in, right? So treat your process like a good old oven-baked good. Look at it like that. Give it time to do all the things that it needs to do because you are not exempt.
You can't skip the process. So enjoy the process. Thank you so much for hanging out with me on the 7-Minute Sunday this week. I hope that you have a wonderful week ahead filled with the process, filled with learning, filled with openness, and be good.