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There is No Overnight Success

Posted by John Saddington on Oct 14, 2009

Only a lot of hard work.

You know, one of the most fascinating things is how easily many of us get sucked into believing things like the “4 Hour Work Week” and how that’s possible with only a few changes to your routine, mindset, and attitude.

Bull.

The journey, as described by the Word, has always been about the marathon race instead of the sprint. I just don’t get it when people talk so much more about the sprint. We, as a people, should always be thinking about the distance run!

It takes hard work, dedication, plus all that “spiritual stuff” to become an “overnight success.” Please go ahead and learn to pass that smoking pipe of nonsense the next time you think you’re going to make it big easily.

We’re in it for the longhaul. Let’s actually believe what we know to be true.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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9 Responses to “There is No Overnight Success”

  1. Jamey Tucker
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7:10 am

    Good word John. It’s easy to get your vision blurred by business websites that focus on getting it to work fast and being big. I needed this reminder and I needed it this morning bro’!

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  2. Graham Brenna
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    true that… double true.

    Reply
  3. stephenbateman
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    Brogan is good, even at 5:30 in the morning!

    Reply
  4. Kyle Reed
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    It reminds me of what Malcom Gladwell talks about in Outliers, 10,000 hrs in a given area is needed to become an expert and an "over night success"
    But don't you think church crunch is somewhat of an overnight success?
    I guess you have been preparing for this for a long time, but like you said, a year ago you were doing nothing like you are today.

    Reply
  5. Jim
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 8:55 pm

    there is no 4 hr workweek, free lunches …i like to shut it all off and go stack firewood or have coffee with Mrs. Ninja

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    • Brad_Parler
      Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 9:43 pm

      Ok – now that you've gone and brought up Tim's book…
      The 4 hour workweek is not about doing less work – and it's not a book to show you a shortcuts, and it does introduce some very interesting ideas regarding lifestyle design, and doing more of what you want to do.

      I agree with Chris completely, and love the video – but is productivity by volume the real measure? Is being effective and being efficient the same thing? (No. not in my mind…) Being effective is doing anything (regardless of time spent) that gets you closer to your goals – being efficient is being able to get to a zero inbox in 3 hours a day through folders and filters and other GTD hacks…
      </soapbox>
      Sorry for the rant – hope you all don't hate on me…

      Reply
    • Brad_Parler
      Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 10:00 pm

      ((edit)) sorry wasn't intented as a reply to just Jim… ))

      Ok – now that you've gone and brought up Tim's book…
      The 4 hour workweek is not about doing less work – and it's not a book to show you a shortcuts, and it does introduce some very interesting ideas regarding lifestyle design, and doing more of what you want to do.

      I agree with Chris completely, and love the video – but is productivity by volume the real measure? Is being effective and being efficient the same thing? (No. not in my mind…) Being effective is doing anything (regardless of time spent) that gets you closer to your goals – being efficient is being able to get to a zero inbox in 3 hours a day through folders and filters and other GTD hacks…
      &lt;/soapbox&gt;
      Sorry for the rant – hope you all don't hate on me…

      Reply
  6. Brad_Parler
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    OT – Does anyone know what Chris is using to stabilize his camera? Looks a bit too smooth to be hand held…

    Reply

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