The Pathway To Your Results

The Tortise and The Hare Within

• Derick Grant • Season 5 • Episode 224

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What if your rush to “get there” is the very thing keeping you stuck? We take the classic tortoise and hare fable and use it as a mirror for the real race we all run: ego’s hunger for speed versus spirit’s devotion to depth. The hare craves proof, applause, and quick wins; the tortoise trusts pace, process, and presence. One burns hot and naps in comfort. The other keeps moving, even when no one’s cheering.

Together we unpack why the universe often “loans” early momentum, how surface-level breakthroughs fool us into complacency, and why embodiment beats excitement every time. You’ll hear practical ways to design your environment for discipline—from moving the weights to the basement to setting honest rules that close loopholes—and how small daily actions become identity. We talk parenting and consequences, study habits, and why hunting only when hungry keeps you in cycles of panic and push.

The heart of the message is simple: consistency is spirituality in motion. Master your pace, and you master the process; master the process, and the product takes care of itself. If you knew you’d arrive but timing didn’t matter, how would you show up today? Try the 1% rule—one small, aligned step that stacks over months into quiet, undeniable change. The soul doesn’t need to announce transformation; it lives it.

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Once you see what you actually are, that you're an infinite, limitless being, you'll see that nothing exists outside of you.

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I'm your host, Derek Grant, and this is the Pathway to Your Results Podcast.

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Bro.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pathway to Your Results Podcast. It is your boy DG. We're here.

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I hope you're having a good week, good day, whatever it may look like in life. I'm excited to talk about this. I talked about this in my community. I did a power hour on this topic, and I had some more time to think about it over the coming weeks. But this fable, the story that we talk about with the tortoise and the hare, I used to love it. I still do, but I really used to love the story. And then when you could start creating like visual stuff, I love watching the actual, I think, I think Warner Brothers did it. And they used, they used the uh the characters from Looney Tunes to portray this whole story of the tortoise and hare. But I'm gonna I'm gonna break down the tortoise and the hair and how you have a tortoise inside of you and you have a hare inside of you.

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And when you start to understand that this is nothing more than a metaphor of spiritual transformation and inner mastery, you're gonna start to see how you have parts of you that are tortoise-like, and you have parts of you that are hair-like. And we have to say this one isn't any better than the other. It's about at what moments am I using or living from each one, right? So we know the story, right?

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The hair, think of the hare as like this cocky, arrogant, uh egoic individual and the hair, not the hare, the tortoise. Yeah, the hair was.

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The tortoise was this lowly, humble, just kind of doing its thing, minding its business, individual who they basically said they're going to race. And everybody's like, oh, well, the tortoise, I mean the hera win, the hera win, and the hare thought it would win, but the tortoise knew it would win.

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And I'm gonna talk, I'm gonna break down why. I want you to understand why, and you understand that uh essentially this was your ego versus the spirit. This was the part of you that lived on the outside versus the part of you that never dies on the inside. And see, the hare was mocking the tortoise for being slow because it believed that speed equals superiority. Hold on now. I gotta go ahead and say this again because I don't think you really understand what I'm saying right now.

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See, some of us think that the quicker we move, the better it will be. I need to hurry up and get there. I want to hurry up and accomplish this. I want to hurry up and do that. For what? Why? And when you really look at it, it's purely egoic. See, when you start to realize that this hair represents the ego, the impulsive, the proud, the hurried, the externally driven, and the tortoise representing the spirit, the grounded, the consistent, the internally guided, meaning I don't play by man's rules. I know on paper it looks like it can't be done. I know on paper it looks like I'm not going to be there in a year, but I don't play by man's rules. See, when you start to understand that transformation really begins when the ego challenges the spirit. Good God Almighty, I don't think they hear what I'm saying. See, you think that everything's supposed to be smooth, but do you not realize that transformation does not take place until the ego starts to bark and go against spirit? And this is the foundation, this is what sets the stage for awakening. So the reason why I'm saying this is because every single transformation, every awakening, you will have multiple awakenings, you're gonna go through multiple dark nights of the soul if you're doing this thing like you need to. Every transformation is gonna start with tension between who you think you are versus who you truly are. You think that you are the hare. You are not the hare, you are actually more tortoise-like. See, the ego's in a hurry and it runs, but the tortoise walks. The spirit walks with purpose. And when you look at this story, this is what happened. See, there's a great level of uh, I guess you want to call it discipline or intentionality or focus, whatever you want to refer to it as, there's a great deal of it that's needed for a race to be run. And the illusion is that quickness equals progress. The illusion is that speed is going to be the thing that's actually gonna help me accomplish it. That ain't what it's gonna be. You heard me, you heard me say this a couple of times on his reels in the last couple of weeks. I'm trying to teach my kids this. It ain't about how fast you run, it's about how consistently you can keep the pace that you are at. So don't sit here. My dad used to say, stop being in a hurry. You're always in a hurry to go nowhere. Always. Always he still says it sometimes now, but I slow down a little bit, but I digress. My point of this is we're in a hurry to get to a point. We're in a hurry to accomplish it, we're in a hurry to get to this, uh, to get to this team or get this contract or make this money or get in that relationship. We are in a hurry, but we don't realize that the journey, the journey, the whole race was actually what you were seeking. Because through the races where transformation takes place, and you didn't come here to stay the same, you came here to transform. So when the race started, if you look at this whole story, this allegory, this metaphor, the hair jumped ahead easily. Why? Because it was operating from a place of speed and intensity. And it was, and what did it do? It was laughing at the tortoise's place. It was at the sorry, at the tortoise's pace because it said, Oh, I'm gonna destroy it, I'm gonna kill it. And how many times does it happen with the ego? How many times this happened? You get starred on something and you excited, oh, I can't wait. Looks like it's gonna happen. Everything's going hunky dory, and then all of a sudden something looks like it ain't gonna work, and then we stop. We quit. We give up. Because this is what happens with transformation. In the beginning, the universe needs to ensure that you're gonna keep going. So it gives you bones, it gives you these quick wins, it gives you this, yes, it's working. Dang, I got this. Yeah, dang, I got my first client. Dang, I can't believe it. But you have to understand how spiritual transformation works. Spiritual transformation is long term. Spiritual transformation is not something that happens overnight. Yeah, the universe gives you a couple bones, and think of it like this. The universe is like, I'm gonna go ahead and loan you some energy here. I'm gonna loan you some excitement because I know you're crusty behind, gonna want to give up. So I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go ahead and give you something at the beginning to have you excited, to go ahead and flare up the ego, because at some point, when I take this thing away and that ego crumbles, you're gonna wonder why you even started this. So I have to give you this right now so you will have something to reflect on. But here's what we have to understand: all that stuff that's happening in the beginning, all the the the quick hits, and just like the the hair experience, the the the quick, the speed, all of that is surface level. Those are surface level shifts. You got to understand what spirit is here. Spirits can't be transformed on a deeper level. We don't want to just create waves on the surface, we want to move the sediment on the bottom of the ocean. That's what the that's what the uh uh this this universe is trying to get within us. So you're gonna have the spiritual highs, you're gonna have the breakthroughs, you're gonna have the epic confidence and all this stuff. But here's the issue: you still ain't embodying it yet. And see, the hair represented those who have awakened intellectually, good God almighty, but not embodying what they have learned. And I see this happen so long so much in the spiritual world and in the world of self-transformation. We go to this retreat and we do that and we do this, all of these different modalities. I read this book and I, yeah, I know this and yeah, but how come you still stressed out right now? How come you still panicking when it looks like it ain't happening? Because we haven't made it created shift on the bottom of the ocean. There's been a shift on the surface, maybe even just a little bit below. There's some current, but it hasn't gotten down deep in the depth of your soul. And that, my friends, is what we call embodiment. So I want you to remember this. At the beginning, the universe gives you energy to help you generate momentum because it realizes momentum is what's going to change each moment, and each moment is what you embody. Embodiment is what's going to create sustainable transformation. So momentum without awareness is movement without meaning. I'm not even aware of what I'm doing. I'm still operating out of my ego. I'm still fat infatuated with speed and hurrying up to get there. I used to, I'm a true story. This wasn't very long ago. I thought, man, when am I going to get there? Get where, Mo? Get where? Where you wanna get? Where are you gonna get? Because guess what? Where you at right now is where the version of you 10 years ago would have done anything to get where you at right now. So where are we going? Where are we going? Speed is what's feeding the ego. Speed is what the hair was after. Consistency, persistence, patience is what feeds spirit. You know why? You know why spirit is patient? You know why spirit doesn't use speed? Because in order for there to be speed, there would have to be time. Good God Almighty, you ain't trying to hear nothing I'm saying. I should go ahead and get off this earth. Matter of fact, I'm gonna go ahead and get off. We're gonna shut this down and we're gonna be done for the day. You're not trying to hear nothing I'm saying. You're in a hurry, and speed is there because you operate out of your ego. Only the ego creates time. Why? Because the ego lives on the mental plane. On the mental plane is where time exists. On the spiritual plane, there is no time because it's always only now. There are no past lives on the spiritual plane. They're all happening now. When you start to look at everything from a spiritual awareness, you start to realize that speed ain't what matters.

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They don't, they don't, they don't get it. They ain't getting it. It ain't about how fast you go, it's about how deep you can go. Good God Almighty. The depth, the depth.

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How deep can I go? How much can I understand myself through this journey? Do you see? And there was a part within this race. There was a part, you guys remember this part? When the ego, excuse me, the hare got so far ahead that this mother, he lay down and took a nap. Do you remember that? He got so far ahead. He thought he was winning so much that he laid his butt down and took it and took a nap. You see that? So you got to understand that the ego rests an illusion. See, it believes that temporary gains guarantees long-term success. I don't think you hear me. I don't think you understand what I'm saying. So when you start to realize that the nap symbolizes spiritual complacency, these are the moments when we pause growth because we think comfort feels better than continued transformation. So I saw a little bit of change in my life. Yeah, I was doing my little breath work. I was journaling every day. I was doing my 369 affirmations. I was saying it, I was talking to my higher self, I was doing all that stuff. So I'm gonna go ahead and chill. I'm gonna go ahead and take a nap. And what happens when you take a nap? You fall back asleep. This is why we say comfort is the death of transformation. Go and say it to yourself. Go and get a tattoo. Matter of fact, no, don't do that. But just go ahead and repeat it to yourself. Comfort is the death of transformation. You see how the hair laid down and took a nap. See, when the ego takes a nap, that's a that's an opportunity for us to transform. That's an opportunity, opportunity for us to grow, but it ain't gonna feel good just to let you know. And when you think you've made it, this is for everybody out here because people ask me this all the time. When am I going to be done? There you go, introducing time again. You brought time, it further lets me know you still sleep. Wake up, get your butt up, go ahead and set your alarm. When you think that you have arrived and you think that you have made it, and you think that you have beat the game, and you think that you are done, you stop becoming. You stop evolving, you stop transforming. And you have to understand really what what what this is symbolizing in this in this in uh the story, the tortoise and the hair. All comfort is is just resistance. That's all it is. It's it's resistance in some nice, cozy clothes, right? It's comfortable. Oh, this feels good. Yeah, that feels now. Resistance is what builds growth. Comfort is actually what's going to help you to grow more, but the reality of it is. I had somebody tell me, they used to tell me, said, make sure that you hunt even when you ain't hungry. Most of us hunt when we're hungry. Nah, you gotta hunt even when you're not hungry. Meaning you gotta be consistent in what you are doing. Just because you're quote unquote winning. Don't then scale back and think, okay, well, let me let my foot off the glass gas. Well, nope, I healed that wound with my father. I healed that big wound. I'm just going to chill. Hey girls, where are we going out tonight? You want to go to the bar? And now here you are, you're right back, right back to where you started. So, why the reason why I'm saying this when you start to realize even when the hare took the nap, the tortoise didn't stop. The tortoise kept going. Slow and steady is what wins the race. Never stopping. Hear me when I say this, slow and steady. Slow and steady. I don't know what season of life that you're in right now. I don't know what you have. Maybe you're building a business. Maybe you're trying to figure out this relationship. Maybe you're in this weird space right now, this liminal space where you don't know what's next and you're trying to develop clarity. I'm here to tell you slow and steady will always get you to the finish line. So this is where we move into the phase of embodiment when you look at the story of the tortoise and the hare. This hare didn't really think it was going to win. Truly. Because if it really thought it was going to win, it wouldn't have never quit. Good God Almighty. You hear what I'm saying? If it really thought it was going to win, it would have never stopped. It would have kept going. So the reason why I'm saying this is because the embodiment phase is where real physical manifestation takes place. See, in order for me to keep going, that means I'd have to be it. And when I be it, that's the only way I can see it. You see what I'm saying? So now it consistency is what's going to replace excitement. I don't care about the the small wins. I'm more focused on just showing up every day. And now healing is not something that I do occasionally. Good God Almighty, healing is my lifestyle. You see what I'm saying? Transformation is a way of being. You hear what I'm saying right now? I'm here to be the epitome, the embodiment of transformation in everything that I do. So I welcome tough things. I told my son, look, we got through the first semester, that first semester. Ain't nobody got kids in seventh grade? Sixth grade and seventh grade. That's the that's the difference between a dog and a cat. Yeah, you both you still in school, but they and they still mammals, but they are not the same thing. And let me tell you something. We found out the hard way as parental units. We found out the hard way, the difference between sixth and seventh grade. Man, they had so much homework. I thought I was waking up middle night, middle night thinking I had homework. They gave that boy so much homework. I'm like, oh, I wake up with sweats. Oh my goodness, Carly, I forgot to do my homework. Now that was his homework that he had to do that you had to help him with. They was given so much homework. But anyway, you get my gist. You know what I'm saying. But anyway, we got through it. We got through. We made it. He pulled everything up. It was by the what did they say? The three little pigs by the hair of a chinny chin chin. He pulled it up off the hair of his chinny chin chin. I remember I was in Tulum. I'm on the phone with him. I'm telling him, like, buddy, please, please, for the sake of this household, get your grades up. So your mother ain't gonna be calling me, barking at me, telling me I need to hurry up and come home. Please, I'm becking you as your father. Please get this figured out. So anyway, he got it figured out. He did it, right? I had to take the phone away, had to take some other stuff away, but he did it, right? And I told him, I said, look, as a father, it pains me to have to do this, but you have to learn that you have to learn this thing that we call consequences. You have to learn these things that when I do or don't do something, there's a sequence that will transpire after it. And it just so happens when I don't do my work and do it at the level that I'm capable of, this is what gets taken away. So anyway, here we are, new semester. I told him, I said, look, man, we're gonna keep having these same talks. Okay. You got to hit the next level of transformation. You got to hit the next level of evolution. So I don't want to keep reminding you for about things that you know you need to do. So we implemented a new rule. You ain't allowed to do no homework on Sunday because I'm tired of waking up and on Monday morning, tired, because we stayed up late on um uh Sunday night, and my eyes are burning like a frog peed in it. And now here I am over here stressed out whether or not you're gonna do well on your test. So I told him I said, we got a rule. You ain't doing no homework on Sundays, right? So he's been great, been getting his work done. Fantastic. Homework Sunday's great. But see, there was a little asterisk. And anybody has a 13-year-old, a 13-year-old is gonna find a loophole. I told him we ain't doing any homework on Sundays, so that means you have to be get your stuff done. But see, what I didn't say is if you need to study, you're gonna do it on Sunday and not Monday morning when you wake up. So I heard him tell Carly, I was in the other room. I heard him say, I'll get up early in the morning and I'll do it. And I just let it slide. It's like, hey, you didn't have any homework. And then I asked, I got up at 6:45 in the morning because I had to wake him up because apparently he had something he needed to do, but he needed to study. And I said, Well, hold on. Why don't we study yesterday? We had all day Sunday, we had nothing to do. We over here playing basketball in the house and doing this. We should have been studying. And he looked at me and he goes, Well, I thought we weren't supposed to do any homework. I said, That ain't homework, that's studying. He found a loophole. So anyway, I sat down with him and said, Hey, buddy, look, here's the deal. You don't want to start running the race just because you're behind. Just keep running the race. Be consistent with it. You got to make sure that you have habits, you have standards, you have things in place that support your success. But if I just because I don't have something to do, it doesn't mean I don't have something to do. Why am I saying that this to you right now? Just because you're not in a storm, that doesn't mean that you give up and you stop doing the things that got you out of the storm. Do you hear what I'm saying? Just because life is going good, don't then just say, well, okay, well, I'll stop journaling. I don't need to anymore. Life is good because again, what's gonna happen? Life's gonna come up, smack you right upside the head. And now here I am, I'm right back in the same predicament. But if you had just been consistent and just kept running the race just like the tortoise did, instead of taking a nap like the hare, you would not have to worry about trying to play catch up. My mother always used to tell me this. My mama used to talk, Mom, I know you're gonna hear this. I know you're gonna listen to this, and I know we already talked about it, you're gonna call me up, talk about, yeah, you listen to what I was saying. But I know you used to tell me this consistently. Stop hunting when you're hungry. Stop doing it just because you need to do it now. You do it because you're developing your muscle of consistency. So, the reason why I'm saying this, please hear this and understand this when I say this consistency ain't nothing but spirituality in motion. Consistency ain't nothing more than the spirit in motion. Because the spirit only is consistent. So when you start to realize that this tortoise represented what you had inside of you of discipline, of patience, of presence. This is the holy trinity of transformation. They talked about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but they didn't tell you nothing about discipline, patience, and presence. They didn't say nothing about that. And these things all embody, they encapsulate this thing called consistency. So I tell myself, just be solid. Just be solid. I'm on a I'm on a physical transformation. I made a commitment to myself that today is day one. I said, I'm gonna go about eight weeks hard. Eight weeks. I'm gonna transform myself. I went ahead and moved all the weights and everything out of the garage. I moved it into the basement. It got a little chilly, it's got a little cold in Indiana. I had to go ahead and do what I had to do to support myself up for success. I knew that if I kept going out to that garage when it was 40 degrees out there, I wasn't going to want to do it to the level that I needed to do it at. So I went ahead and had to make change so that it would support the reality and support the results that I want to experience. So I moved it down to the basement where there's a little bit warmer because I know it'd be a little bit easier on them days that I don't feel like doing it. Now I don't have a reason because it's cold for me to give up. Do you hear what I'm saying right now? Do you see how this works? You got to make sure that you put yourself in positions to support your success. If you know you need to get up in the morning because you feel better when you journal, don't be out late at night doing a bunch of stuff that's gonna keep you from getting up. If you know good and well that the cell phone distracts you, then maybe you need to put limitations on the apps that distract you. And see, now you are hunting even when you're not hungry. I see this happen so often. It's like this we don't call, we don't call the fire department until the fire gets out of control. What I'm telling you is, is you don't have to call the fire department if you make sure you do what you have to so the fire never gets out of control. You see what I'm saying? So, the reason why I'm saying this is because the spiritual community has done a wonderful job of glamorizing and making spiritual transformation look like it's um this wonderful. Like, look at me. I have my crystals, look at me, I'm going to Miami and I mean I'm doing my breath work. Yeah. We've done a wonderful job of making it look like spirituality is glamorous. We've done a wonderful job of making evolution look like it's this performance that I have to do. It ain't about how dramatic or how glamorized it looked. That isn't what it's about. It is about devotion. Devotion, you hear me what I'm saying? Devotion, being consistent in what you are moving towards. And when you do this now, you start to see the story of the tortoise and the hare. Now you can get to the finish line. You see, now you can get to the finish line because now you've achieved what we call uh uh mastery. See, mastery is me being able to do something over and over and over and over and over again to the point that it becomes a level of embodiment. I've mastered the game of this, I mastered this because I have been so consistent that I don't even know what the word consistency is anymore. I am the epitome, I am the embodiment of consistency. Do you hear what I'm saying? This is what self-mastery was. Self-mastery was your ability to embody the self. Not that I do it here and I do it there. No, it is a lifestyle. So you won't never not see me embodying the true divine nature. That's what self-mastery was, but it happened through embodiment. So this is the moment when ascension happens through embodiment. The tortoise didn't need to prove anything, the tortoise didn't need to show everybody, everybody was laughing at them. The hair was over here patronizing them and making fun of him, and everybody, all I remember. I remember watching this as a kid. All the other little animals were laughing at him. Tortoise said, I ain't got nothing to prove. I ain't got nothing to prove. I don't need to prove to my family that I've changed. I don't need to show over here and start telling them about everything that I've done. You know why? Because my consistency of showing up for me every day is what they're gonna see. That's one thing that people don't realize. You don't realize that people see your transformation through your consistency. See, the soul, the soul is quiet. The soul doesn't gotta prove anything, it doesn't have to show anything to anybody. The eagle's the one who's loud. The tortoise was the hare was the one who was loud. And then you realize something. Good God Almighty. If you don't hear and understand what I'm saying right now, you might as well never listen to my podcast ever again. You might as well go ahead and get off what I'm about to tell you. You start to realize that transformation is not about winning a race, it's not about you hitting a goal, it's not about you uh getting a certain monetary amount, it's not about you getting to the destination. That's not what transformation is about. It's about becoming the kind of person who no longer needed to win. That hair needed to win. That hair needed to show that it was enough through its performance, just like your rusty crusty ego does. It needed that certain amount in that bank account so it could feel like it was good enough. See, the tortoise, one thing the tortoise had done that the hair couldn't figure out, it mastered this thing called pace. And it ran the race at its own pace. And this is what we were all supposed to do. When you master your pace, you're gonna master the process. And we always know that the process is what creates the product. Must I say this again so it gets in your spirit? The process is what creates the product, and when you master that pace, you're gonna master the process. So the ego's gonna run a run towards victory. But your spirit's gonna want to walk towards transformation. It ain't in no hurry. It ain't in no hurry because it ain't got nowhere to go. You gotta understand what the spirit's saying. Spirit's saying, I'm gonna be here forever. I'm gonna always be here, always have, always will be. You don't want to uh operate through time. I operate through this thing called infinity. There is no beginning and there is no end. The alpha and the Omega. So you keep moving out of this thing called time and being in a hurry. So now let's look at that tortoise in the hair. The hair was so focused on proving it was the fastest and it could win because it was so focused on getting quote unquote there. And that tortoise, you know he was always concerned about? All he all he was trying to do was stay awake. That's the only thing his spirits worried about. Can we stay awake? Because if we can stay awake, we're gonna finish the race. So I told you that the tortoise and the hare each existed within us. And the real race that we run in, the real battle, the only one you really competing against is the ego's hurriedness. So here's the lesson. This is a big word, right? It's about integrating. It's about integration. Learning when to move, learning when to be still, letting learning when to slow down, learning when to speed up, but understanding that I can't quit, I can't give up. I must keep going. And in order to do this, it doesn't matter which one which way you go. You can go the route of the tortoise or you can go the route of the hare. It doesn't matter because each one is going to lead to transformation. You see what I'm saying? So your spiritual growth happens when the hair, the ego inside of you, learns humility, meaning it learns how to receive, it learns how to listen, it learns how to start to learn. And your tortoise trusts and knows. So for everybody here who's listening, take some time, do some inventory, do an audit of your life. And ask yourself, have I been in a hurry? Have I not been thorough? Because when you get in a hurry, you're not thorough. When you're in a hurry, you just want to get it done. Take time out of it. If you knew that you were going to get there, if you knew you were gonna get there, but it it required you to be consistent every single day. And when you got there, it was irrelevant. What actions would you change? What would you do differently? I told my son, I'm I'm coaching this assistant coach of the seventh grade team.

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I said, you know, this is there's some things in this world that are more valuable than gold. I'm gonna tell you something. What's more valuable than gold?

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I got a key to a gym. Now I know it doesn't sound like a big deal. I got a key to a gym. I can go to a gym whenever I want now. We can go, we can go shoot at 10 o'clock at night. What? So I told him, I said, here's the deal. I told him I said, here's what we're gonna do. You're just gonna be consistent. I'm not gonna go hard. You just every day. I'm just gonna work on something, every single day. You're gonna do it in this, you're gonna do it at school, you're gonna do it in every facet of life. You're gonna start to learn how to develop your your muscle of consistency. And if you can do this, I promise you, I promise you, you will finish the race. And you won't even care that you finish the race because that was never the goal anyway. So for everybody here. The goal wasn't to beat the hair or kill the hair. It wasn't it was none of that. It was none of that. That wasn't the goal. I wanna know what you think that's what it uh we're trying to try to get rid of the hair. No. The goal was to awaken the tortoise inside of you. The goal was to say, you know what, for this week and this week only, I'm just going to show up. What do you mean, show up, DG? I don't understand what you mean. I'm going to show up as the future version of me every single day. I'm going to live as my DRV, my desired reality version. I'm going to live as her. I'm going to be her. And there's going to be days when I don't feel like it. There's going to be days when, you know what? I want to eat that cheeseburger and French fries, but I know, you know what? She would eat that salad. I'm going to go ahead and do it. Even though I don't want to. And I'm just going to do it for today.01. 0.01. You know what that is? That's 1%. I'm just going to do, I'm just going to be 1% better, 1% more consistent, 1% more aligned today than I was yesterday. And then here's what happens with those 0.1%. It starts to tack, it starts to stack up. And now you look at your life over the course of six, eight, 10, 12 months. You're like, dang, look how much I've changed. Yeah, it's because you're in alignment with the universe's creation process. It's always consistency. So the tortoise and the hair. I'm not going to tell you to be the tortoise, and I'm not going to tell you to be the hare, because either way you're going to get to where you're going. But if you are the tortoise, you are going to be more in alignment with this universe. So keep going. And you know, I shouldn't even have to say this anymore. You already know. You already know. I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results.