Hey Momma, welcome to the Momma Purpose Podcast. I'm Aubrey Malek, and I'm a former teacher at Turnfall Time workout mom, and now I'm on a mission to inspire other moms to combine their passions with their purpose. If you're searching for mourning in your life, or you're ready to take that and put faith, you're in the right place. This podcast is here to inspire you, give you the tools and resources that you need to capture your purpose, and to go out there and live the most positive and purpose you'll like.
I hope that when you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're sitting down with your best friend. So put in your earbuds and turn up that volume, and let's dive in. Hey there, and welcome back to the Momma Purpose Podcast. I am super excited to bring you today's episode.
It's going to be very quick and to the point, that I think it's going to be an awesome way to start your week if you want to listen to this first thing in the morning, or if you're just feeling down and out about your progress towards a goal that you've been working on, and you're feeling like, it's not happening as fast as you want it to, and I want to read you something. I have been kind of feeling a little bit down about my own progress. I will be perfectly honest and saying that there are things that I wish had already happened yesterday, and when I pick out a goal or when I set my mind to something, I work really super hard, and I want the results to happen as quickly as possible. But I read something earlier this week, and it really stopped with me, and it's about having slow progress, and how having slow progress in the right direction is better than fast progress in the wrong direction.
And it kind of caused me to check in with myself and think about where I stand with my progress, and I was kind of honest with myself and saying, I don't feel like I'm where I want to be, or having one month of the year almost gone, and feeling like it's not moving or it's not happening as fast as I would like it to, and I wish that it would happen quickly. But of course, life doesn't always work that way, and I think it's really easy to look at someone else's success, someone online that might see someone who might follow on Instagram, and it's easy to think that for them it happened overnight, or it happened so quickly for them, or they just got lucky, and I'm not going to shy away and say that I haven't felt that way, because I have those thoughts across my mind. Sometimes I see someone that I look up to and I sigh, and I think, wow, they have so much success, and they've done so well for themselves, and it seems like that it must have just happened overnight, and I think it's so easy to compare ourselves to other people around us that might be in the same field as us, or doing the same thing as us, and we might see that they are advancing quickly, or they are moving faster than we are, and it might seem like we've been working on our goal, or we've been aspiring to be something for a dream long period of time, but we feel like we don't have as much to show for it, and that could be hard. But what I've come to understand, and what I'm still grappling with, I'm not, it's definitely a learning curve for me, and it's definitely something that I'm dealing with every day, and trying to remind myself, I don't feel like any means that I've overcome it, because it's definitely a daily struggle, but doing things faster, or growing faster, or doing something bigger, that doesn't always mean the most success, and as I was reading about this slow progress, I came across an analogy about two different kinds of trees, and one is an oak tree, and one is a eucalyptus tree, and I don't really know much about trees, but when they broke it down from me, I think analogies really helped me to see things clearly, something that might seem a little bit abstract to me, but they were talking about these different kinds of trees, and how an oak tree takes a very long time to grow, and even after being planted for a few years, it doesn't look like it's made much progress, and a eucalyptus tree grows very quickly, and it sprouts off, and it gets tall, but the oak tree, even though it's taking way longer to grow, the oak tree is the one that can handle the storm, and that you will see oak trees, and I can even think about it, we have tons of oak trees where I live, those are the trees that are the ones that stand the longest, and can withstand storms, and the weather, and all the trials and tribulations that might come, and the eucalyptus tree, even though it grew super fast, it's not always going to be the one that can stand through all the pain, and all the trials and all the storms that might come the way, so it's okay to feel like you're not making much progress, but I would encourage you to not give up, and I have to remind myself of that on a daily basis, to not give up, even though I'm not seeing much success, because they say it's slow and steady wins the race, and it might sound a little cliché, but it's true when you think about it in comparison to those two trees, that oak tree, you know, year after year, it might not have much to show as far as it's grown this tall, or it's grown this wide, but that oak tree is going to be the one that's standing the test of time, so slow progress is not necessarily a bad thing, and sometimes it's really what we need, because along the way we get to learn things that we can only learn, if we take the time to do so, if we take the time to go through different things.
Hey girl, if you've been listening to me for a while, you've been loving the tips and tricks I share on this podcast, and you're looking for a more intimate way to be able to connect with me, maybe so that I can help you work through a problem-solving problem that you're currently in right now, why don't we jam on a 30-minute coaching session? I have just opened up a very select few sessions for this month, and I want to extend the invitation to my podcast listeners, because if you're listening to this, you're tried and true, you know my style, and you know how much this benefit you and your business, I want to help you overcome your mindset, waxing, or keeping you from reaching that goal, or staying positive, or being productive, I want to help you work through that. So if you would love to jam with me for 30 minutes, let's chat for your biggest problem that's going on right now, the biggest thing that's getting your stuff, go ahead and email me at hello.com, that's my email address, hello. We can chat, I can set everything up for you, and we can have a fabulous time just jamming together and working on one-on-one, so I'll leave the link in the show notes for you, if this is something you'd be interested in, I would love to help you solve your problem.
You know, I think about my journey as a teacher, and I went through the schooling, and I went through the different jobs, and now I've kind of taken a totally different path, and some might think, wow, you wish you would have just figured out this was what you were going to do to begin with, but when I look back on it, all those things that I've gone through as a teacher, and you know, going through the schooling, all those things, it prepared me, and it made me stronger to be able to take this different path, that made me a little bit more sure about who I was and the kind of life that I wanted to live, and I don't think that I could have been as strong and as accepting of this path and of this change had I not gone through, all of those other things, so I think when you look back to that analogy of the two different kinds of trees, sometimes taking your time to get somewhere, taking your time to grow and develop, it allows you to build up that strength, it allows you to build a muscle of resiliency, and it allows you to kind of look through the process and think, wow, I've really come a long way, and I've learned what I need to learn in order to get to where I really want to go, and it's very hard to accept that it's going to take a little bit longer, I think, in any instance. I even think that people who do have success, they really have put in the work, it's just not what we always see, we only see a fraction of it, and I think that's one thing about social media, is people are only really showing you what they want you to see. You know, some people really won't show you all of the years and all of the missteps and the trials and failures that they had to go to find that success. So even though it's not the most rewarding journey to sit and wait and hope that you'll reach this goal, especially if you are seeing other people around you in the same area that you're in, or the same journey that you're on, the same goals, the same aspirations.
If you see them moving ahead and you feel like you're getting left behind, don't let that deter you, don't let that pull you away from what you're trying to do, because what I've learned in anything, you have to be the one that's in it for the longest, you have to be the one that says, I'm going to stand the test of time, I'm going to keep going, no matter how long it takes me, and if you want something bad enough, you are going to work through all those things, and you just need to be patient with yourself, and know that this is a part of your dream, just because someone else is going along faster, it doesn't mean that that person is always going to be the one that remains at the top, okay? Think back to those trees, what tree do you want to be when you are growing your business, or you're setting out on this new venture, you're trying something new, do you want to be the one that sees instant success, but can't stand when the trials and the storms come through, or do you want to be the tree, the person that takes its time, and builds its roots, and its core, and grows strong, and tall, and can withstand things that might knock someone else off their course. Even though it's hard for me, I would much rather be the oak tree, and even though it's hard for me because it's totally against my personality, I want to go, go, and I want to achieve, achieve as fast as I can, sometimes it's okay to take that slow and steady pace, because I think that in order for me to succeed and for me to reach my goals, I have to be willing to be in it for the long term, and not just give up because I'm not seeing success, so have the faith, have the strength to take that slow path, to take that slow journey, and know that when you come out on the other side, because you've gone through all those things, because you've weathered the storms, that you will be much stronger, and you'll be that much more successful by taking that slow path. I hope this quick tip, this quick episode was what you needed to keep going, to keep the faith, to keep strong, and to keep pushing towards your goals, even if you feel like you don't have anything to show for it, trust me, it's worth it in the end, if you just keep moving and keep the end goal nine, and keep moving ahead so that you can reach your goals.
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