A reminder for anyone doubting their progress...

Sunday motivation boost coming your way...

I want you to take a look at MrBeast.

Right now he's absolutely dominating YouTube.

His Beast Games show just dropped on Prime.

He's literally changing how entertainment works.

Success almost seems easy for him.

But he uploaded 455 videos before going viral.

Four hundred and fifty-five.

Most of them probably less than 1000 views.

And he's not alone.

Walt Disney? Got fired from his newspaper job for "lacking imagination."

Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting while he was alive.

One.

Now his work sells for hundreds of millions.

Steven Spielberg? Rejected from film school.

Not once.

Not twice.

Three times.

I'm sharing this because I think we have a warped view of what progress looks like.

We see the highlights:

• The viral video

• The acquisition news

• The successful launch

But we miss the countless iterations that came before.

The videos that flopped.

The pitches that failed.

The products nobody bought.

Every creator you admire has a folder of work they're glad you never saw.

Every founder has previous attempts they'd rather forget.

Every artist has early work that makes them cringe.

But they kept going.

They put in the reps.

They persevered when it would have been easier to quit.

That's the real secret.

Not luck.

Just showing up, again and again, until the work catches up with the vision.

I think we've created this culture where everyone's looking for the shortcut.

The hack.

The lucky break that'll change everything overnight.

• "They got lucky with their timing."

• "They knew the right people."

It's nonsense.

Success looks a lot like failure until it doesn't.

And this idea that people just get lucky?

It's a story we tell ourselves to feel better about not putting in the work.

MrBeast didn't just get lucky with one video.

Disney didn't just stumble into animation.

He rebuilt from bankruptcy.

Learned from every setback.

Kept refining his vision.

They all understood something crucial:

There are no shortcuts.

No lucky breaks without the work behind them.

No overnight success without the countless nights before.

So whatever you're building...

Whatever you're creating...

Whatever you're trying to grow...

Let's make this week count.

Remember, the creator mindset is all you need to grow 🌱

Jordan

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