Episode 11 - Celebrating “Small” Victories | ANd Why You should

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I don't think you're ready for this.

Ready for what.

So I was thinking the other day about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older and it dawned on me.

0:21

What?

They're cramming for the final exam.

That's not bad.

That's not bad.

I don't I think that's pretty good yeah you're you're cramming for the final exam it looms larger as Phil Robertson says the IT looms larger every day.

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It looms larger yeah what a phrase.

I mean.

Looms larger.

Yeah well he's he's talking about death like.

You it's it's.

Coming like it it just you're closer every day.

Yeah and you got 100% chance of getting there too oh that's a fact got 100% chance of getting there.

Fact statistical fact not even being morbid about it it's it's.

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Gonna you're gonna die I'm gonna die hopefully.

You made preparations.

Well yeah true true.

Think that's important.

That's a pretty good joke though good good one to start us off with tapping I like that I like that.

Oh that's pretty good.

Pretty tasty pretty tasty good good little Bible joke there.

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For the final exam yeah.

If I go back in if I go back in the sands of time to my school days I was certainly certainly a not before studier?

Bit of a crammer.

Crammer for sure.

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Brings me to a point I had the other day it sort of dawned on me unlike that joke so for whatever reason some people were worse about it than others humans tend to procrastinate.

Yeah you're you're looking at chief among em right here.

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I mean I'm there too.

Yeah you're you're actually pretty pretty good in my opinion I mean comparatively speaking I have.

I have I have grown to be somewhat less of a procrastinator in some things going back to school so we'll we'll we'll talk exams I was very much a procrastinator it bit me in the high end many a time in college but here's the thing if you wanna if you wanna draw a parallel here and I'm not trying to get deep here on your your Monday morning but.

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Life.

Yeah.

If I told you if I told you you have an assignment I'm not gonna tell you when it's due that's tough but I'm gonna tell you that if you do it and you have it ready to submit by the time it's due when I call on its due date?

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Ouch I know where this is going.

You pass.

Interesting if you don't.

Well you fail.

Interesting.

So you've got this assignment you know it has a due date just don't know when.

You said you weren't gonna go get deep but I feel like you're getting pretty deep well.

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I didn't mean to but I mean seriously that's that's how I I I hit me the other.

Day that's our life.

No it is.

That's our life.

We've all got a due date.

Life is the assignment death.

And if you've not made preparations then I mean.

Ouch that's sobering.

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Yeah that's sobering on a Monday morning here.

Welcome back to faith and praise.

How's everybody doing this morning?

Speaking of final exams you know it's just hopefully you're prepared I hope you're prepared.

I hope so as well I hope so as well.

On a lighter note we're gonna talk about something that may seem small.

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Oh.

But I would argue.

Stacked up is is not small at all.

I was gonna say the the sum of small victories is fairly large in the long run and I think this concept that we're gonna talk about once we get to it Jerry correct me if I'm wrong this comes fresh off the heels of a a group that we're a part of the art of documentary community specifically the accelerator group.

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Where this concept was made very known and very present on our weekly coaching calls a concept that we both latched onto that we enjoyed and and I'll be honest with you after the CE accelerator course I kind of missed yeah I kind of missed that Monday?

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Call I mean they have they have they have V 2.

I don't.

Know if it started or not but.

It has we weren't able.

To we weren't able to hop in this time scheduling just didn't allow right but I do miss it.

I really do it was on a Monday so I mean you're starting your week off well we'll talk about that here in just a second after the break but we're gonna thank our sponsor.

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6:08

Well.

I think there are tons of analogies and parallels that could be drawn from it but one thing that I noticed and it hit me when actually it was something it was something in business I I was talking to my wife she said what are you doing today I was like oh we're going to we're going to chat with our sponsor.

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The the.

Sponsor the sponsor of of this podcast and and we're gonna talk about some details about what that sponsorship looks like all these things and she said oh you guys have made it you're big time and without thinking about it for whatever reason I was like Nah I mean we're just 2 guys with a podcast. 2 dudes that somebody for whatever reason.

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And and it later on that day it kind of hit me I was like you know.

Maybe it's a sense of humility maybe it's I I don't I don't know why but I was downplaying a small victory a small win and again part of it I know for me personally does stem from you know it I always want to be seen as humble in whatever I do I I never want to come across as the person who has nothing else to learn I have made it I'm the best you know I have no room for improvement nothing like that.

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Well because plot twist there's always somebody better yeah add something.

Yeah I think your dad said something.

To your dad used to tell me that growing up when I was learning how to play you know piano and guitar or anything really he'd say for the love of humanity do not get cocky yeah because there will be a day probably soon where you enter a room and somebody 's a whole lot better at XYZ yeah than you are.

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So.

I mean seriously a lot of it honestly it does stem from some sense of humility but at the end of the day too like OK you know what no that is a that is a kind.

Of cool that is cool kind of cool yeah.

This thing that we've started partly out of people 's request but something that we enjoy doing yeah someone else has decided to get behind it.

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They've latched on they've.

Latched on and they want to partner with us I was like no that is cool daggone it that is cool you know little claps.

And then it got me to thinking of yeah the accelerator module or the accelerator group from art of documentary Michael Del Monte every Monday when we had our weekly calls we would say kind of is literally is the openers everybody 's filtering into the zoom meeting hey I want to hear about your wins yeah we're.

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Typing them up.

I want to hear about your wins typing them up and he said look it doesn't have to be professionally it doesn't have to be that you got a $100,000.00 commercial gig signed he goes.

Family life period I want to hear your small wins and it wasn't till after probably week 5 or 6 for me where I was like you know what this is really good because what ended up happening inadvertently was as Michael was addressing them the rest of the group was hearing them seeing them reading them right and then you're cheering on.

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Oh yeah you're clapping and shouting hurrah for everybody.

So it's like you know what this is really really this is really powerful.

Very powerful.

So the small things they the sum of them.

Is large?

I mean it is not to be cliche or corny but.

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Well and if you think too I think we've all seen the the TikTok where you know I think they're interviewing like a Navy SEAL or he's giving a speech at a college and he's like wake up every day and make your bed right make your bed that's one small victory that just gets the really with small victories it's about momentum.

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Yeah.

Building momentum throughout the day throughout the week throughout the month whatever I think one thing that was very powerful going back to the accelerator group on Mondays specifically for me is it's so easy to get caught up in the previous week 's garbage true what didn't go right what am I behind on what did I forget to do you know what what am I missing versus when you you get your Monday started off on just it can be the smallest of positivity.

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The smallest positive note for me it starts that momentum building to where I don't have to worry about what what I left behind in the week previous 'cause it's it's literally in the week previous I can't bring it back you know nothing I can do about it at this point in time I have to move on and move forward so those small victories it's all about momentum and building that momentum that's what I loved about the accelerator group.

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I think they just maybe for whatever reason.

They seem insignificant because maybe they're simple maybe they are in the grand scheme of things not life changing or whatever and in and of themselves but I think it's really easy to just kind of overlook them you I mean not that you assume it's going to happen but you just you overlook it and therefore they don't carry as much weight but it's one of those things where again if you look at them and.

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The rear view it's like Nah OK this small thing gave me the ability to do this small thing and then this thing and then this thing and so it it literally built and so it honestly.

Builds and grows.

Butch Jones.

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Brick by brick Oh no all the I mean.

OK so think about it though right now my house is brick it is a it is a sum the structure in and of.

Itself is as the.

Sum of.

Smaller.

Bricks they're all necessary to to create structure so yeah it's it's a lot of parallels can be.

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Drawn I was gonna say a thing about this without any singular one of those bricks you know you take away one brick the structure 's still gonna stand take away 5 bricks still standing but it's gonna be a little weaker in that area yeah.

So as soon as you start chipping away at those bricks the structure as a whole becomes weak I think we're the same way I mean it's it's very easy in today's world to let little things chip away at you to where we literally see people walking around now that are just truly downtrodden yeah and depressed because they've had those little wins taken away from them so I think it's important to recognize the little wins and and even if something as simple as yeah we we picked up our first sponsor that doesn't seem like a lot.

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To a lot of people but I know for us and for anyone who's starting any sort of adventure to know that somebody outside of your boat or outside of your cart is grabbing alongside of that rope and saying you know what guys I'm going to pull it with you I think that is phenomenal I.

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I guess it's kind of like you know in a lot of restaurants or at least in a lot of non chain restaurants you'll see a dollar bill frame do you Yep.

The first dollar the first dollar.

I mean so that symbolizes something that's significant and yeah if you if you constantly are aware of the smaller victories again we we kind of mentioned it with Preston a few episodes ago you know he was talking about you know you're not going to get fit overnight right we talked about you're not going to become.

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You're not gonna get unfit overnight.

Not gonna get unfit overnight and even in in anything you're not gonna be good at it overnight it's going to be the sum of consistency yeah and constantly showing up and learning making and repeating essentially right which.

To me that's a good thing you know I think.

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So you mentioned it from the humility side of things you know the reason you kind of downplayed you know our our recent small win as as a podcast.

I mean it wasn't I wasn't thankful for it it was just literally in the moment you know Kara was giving us kudos and and and it's like I don't deserve that.

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Humblebrain kicked in well it was.

It's like we're just 2 guys with a podcast.

Well I think too so you hit it from the humble point I think the reason for me sometimes that small victories are hard.

And this will be point number 2 if if we're keeping bullet points here I think sometimes I personally struggle with imposter syndrome again it can come from the feeling of like not deserving something which you know at the end of the day we really don't deserve anything from anybody or anyone so again very appreciative when things do come along but for me it's a little bit of imposter syndrome because I I think we've heard it before you know somebody will come up and congratulate you and say you know all these praises about you and on the inside I'm like.

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If you?

Only knew if.

You only knew the wreck that you are complimenting right now I really struggle struggle a lot of times with imposter syndrome like the feeling of I don't deserve to sit at this table so I think for me that's that's one of the hardest part parts even with small victories is the imposter syndrome right.

15:08

I mean I I could agree with that I can.

And then I don't know a lot of times it seems to be where I find myself struggling to not really accept but I've I I don't know if maybe I'm just so self critical I find it difficult to accept compliments a lot of times like whether it's singing at church or whether it's the video that you made or or the photo that you took or or.

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Anything I mean yeah we all want to be complimented but actually like receiving it for whatever reason it's sometimes difficult for me it's like you know when somebody walks up after I don't know after singing at church or something and and and tells me that I did a good job I I immediately for whatever reason don't want to accept it I mean it's it's I'm thankful that you feel that way but like now trust me I'm not good you know I I am.

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Not what you're saying you know it's so I don't know it's it's it's so difficult.

So is that also a product though of again going back to the age that we live in like especially on social media is that also a product of maybe like comparing and comparison.

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Well I mean I'm sure yeah I mean speaking strictly on vocals you know when someone compliments me on a on a song or or or after singing or something.

I do not think of myself as a good singer because I know there are far superior singers even in the church you know so it's like no I I'm not worthy of this compliment that you know I don't know it's so it's so strange.

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It it is a weird thing and and again I think again and and speaking from personal experience for me that the comparison thing as of late has really really I would say piled up.

You know my imposter syndrome my fears of taking compliments the the rare occasions that they do come but I mean I I think the comparison game and and you know everybody 's heard the the saying comparisons the thief of all joy and it it really is at times it's tough and and there's times where I know a couple of years back I took AI think a 6060 or something like that 60 day essentially fast.

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From social media because I got caught in the just the crap fest constantly comparing constantly comparing.

And falling short to somebody 's life on social.

Media yeah and falling short to that perfect life that's portrayed on social media not good for the mentals definitely not good for the mentals I wasn't.

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I wasn't thinking of my small victories heck I wasn't and let's take victories aside yeah not even thinking about you know the the blessings that we get every single day yeah you know right wasn't even thinking about those either.

Well a lot of times we can Speaking of blessings we can we can look at our problems Oh yeah and they seem so much larger than I mean true if you think about it getting out of bed that day Yep waking up that day.

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The the summation of all of the small blessings.

That.

You were allowed to receive or that you were that the Lord blessed you with it.

He allowed us to receive.

So yeah I was trying to figure out how to phrase that.

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No you phrased it properly well but it's like we don't deserve it but he lets it happen but we'll.

We'll let that one problem become Mount Everest in our mind.

Oh we let it define our whole personality at Toms yeah.

Well and I think that's even important too just just in in in in Christian walks you know it's so easy to fall whatever that looks like for you and feel as though.

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It's over.

Boy I've really I've done it now.

Not coming back from this one I.

Can I yeah God 's grace isn't big enough for this?

I've reached the point in overtime.

You know but it's it's kind of like that piece of cake.

That one piece of cake if you're dieting or if you're trying to get fit lose weight whatever isn't what causes you to not be.

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Fit well it doesn't define your fitness journey.

No it's it's it's no different than you falling and another thing too it's really easy as or at least it is for me so the other day and I listened to the shame podcast a lot which is the robertsons and they specifically.

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Them and the buchanans have inspired me to but it's easy to they've inspired me but it's also really easy to be like look at them and see how well they have or how vast their knowledge of the Bible is like to the point of like they know which section of the page this passage is when someone like says oh it's John one well they know OK well that's about 2/3 of the way down on the right hand side of the page in my Bible they know their printed text that well.

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Or they can recite scripture, You know, it can be kind of discouraging as someone who's who's newer to the faith or who's not as far along in their walk as them.

And it's like, gosh, I'm way short of the mark.

Well, do you remember?

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It's been, I think, a a few Sundays ago now, whatever.

Whatever, John, our preacher was talking about praying.

Oh Lord.

And and the eloquency at which some people pray and and literally he was just encouraging us.

Like, stop trying to be so fancy, you know, just just talk.

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That's what it is.

Conversation.

It's just a conversation.

We all we were all sitting there just frozen in our chairs.

Like, please do not call on me to dismiss service today because I cannot live up to the standard you just set forth.

And it was funny, 'cause it was almost like an anti standard.

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John gave us an anti standard.

He's like, stop being fancy, stop being eloquent, just talk.

And then all of a sudden we're like Ricky Bobby over here, don't know what to do with our hands or our our words.

Well, James got up to close out.

I need to rethink how to pray.

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And he said, well, who wants to dismiss this after?

That not a soul, not a soul.

But like, OK, again, back-to-back to strictly just the knowledge of the Bible.

You you see these people who have been at it for years and and and I'm seeing them at their stage now and it's like they know.

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They know so much and I'm so stinking far behind, you know and and and and being educated, right.

And it's like, OK, well Jared, how do you think that happened?

What didn't?

It didn't happen overnight, right?

21:59

It happened from repeatedly doing the small things.

Yeah, basically courting.

Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong, Kara.

Probably didn't want to marry you on the first day.

Correct?

The first day you guys met.

Now you are.

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You may be God's gift to the dating world, to the female gene pool, but.

Started with a Facebook message so.

I know, at least for me, I had to swing and miss three times, and on the 4th I was hit in a head on collision by an F-250 before my wife would even look my way.

Yeah.

22:32

There you go.

I'm just saying the the majority of the time it it is a courting process.

Well and that's the other thing too that that I think and we've we've we're we're we're kind of talking faith here now but like you know the the the time you fall it's not the end right I.

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Was gonna say roping it about roping it back around to to those small victories, I think through the example that we receive of small blessings.

Yeah.

We can appreciate more, you know, the smaller victories.

Yeah.

Not not every day are we going to invent a cure for cancer.

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Not every day are we going to build a magnificent tower or structure in the heart of New York City.

Now, for most of us, that will probably never happen.

But those small victories again add up in the long run, right?

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And so I think, I think the, you know, the faith side of things is a beautiful example for what we can kind of experience, you know, in our daily lives with with those little victories.

I think it's OK.

I think it's OK to celebrate those things again.

I think it offers encouragement whenever we celebrate those with others.

Maybe it gives us the opportunity to lift others up.

23:53

Yeah, as well, which is everything essentially at that accelerator course was all about right.

Sure.

We were there to learn.

Yeah, we were there to gain some knowledge.

But an added benefit, a side, a side benefit essentially of it was, yeah.

Well, to me, to me, the benefit, the benefit was having that group of people just clapping for each other.

24:13

Yeah, because if you remember, and I remember pretty vividly, we didn't really talk about technical camera specs.

We didn't talk about camera Operation I.

Don't think we talked about any of that.

No, You know, the bulk of our conversation was, hey, I've experienced this in my business.

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This is what I'm feeling about it.

What do you guys think you know, whether it be with how should I pitch this project, how should I pitch this client, how should I court this client?

And we're here offering encouragement like, First off, little claps that you're at the table with that client 'cause that's freaking awesome.

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But secondly, let's let's tackle this together.

Let's let's take this small victory that you've experienced.

Let's team up together as as a collective, as the accelerator, and let's help each other gain those little victories that add up to big victories within business specifically.

25:05

I think I think the biggest thing though is, is just awareness, 'cause if you if you think about it, whether it's a blessing, whether it's a victory, wherever you fall in that realm, if you were just aware they're there and guess what they can be encourage me, they they starting the meeting off the the zoom call with that really set the tone, I think.

25:35

And and it just happened to be on a Monday too, so it also helped with the week.

I mean, seriously, Monday morning you're with a bunch of guys and girls who are like minded, and the first thing you're doing is is telling a win and clapping.

For each other.

What went well for you were all these negative things.

25:53

Yeah, So that was really important.

But when it come time to to share your win, you know you had to.

You had to reflect a minute and you had to be aware.

Of.

You know what had transpired and you're like, you know what that that was.

26:08

Yeah, you had to actually accept it as a win.

Yeah, you had to accept it.

That's pretty cool.

And so I think that's important.

But yeah, the small wins strung together, stay in the course, being consistent, showing up, staying on the straight and narrow.

26:29

That's ultimately what or big things happen, I guess.

Well and maybe for our audience out there listening.

I personally, and I'm sure that you could agree with this.

I would personally love to know some of our audiences small wins.

Maybe you guys wanna put those in some comments.

Yeah, somewhere maybe on YouTube.

26:47

If you wanna reach out to us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn what have you.

I I'm personally here.

I know.

I know you say this before or you've said this before too.

You know we're here to serve people if that means that we're clapping for you.

Yeah, I mean, that is something that I love.

27:03

I love seeing other people win.

So yeah, I would love to know some of our audiences small wins.

Let us know down in the comments below or again, reach out to us with a message.

If there's any way that we can help encourage you.

If you're struggling to, to find small victories again, we're here.

27:20

We're here for that.

Not to be cliche, but it's such a small thing, a small thing to do.

But I would encourage everyone, whether it be, you know first thing each morning or maybe you're just doing it once a week.

I think once a week is a great start.

Sit back, maybe write some things down.

27:38

This is one thing that whenever I was in in the other industry one of my mentors there was very adamant about writing down and and get this weekly 5050 things that were either a small victory or that you were thankful for.

28:00

I would encourage our audience to do something similar.

Now, I'm I'm not asking you to come up with an actual number because to me that puts a impossible quota sometimes.

And I'm not a believer in quotas.

But I would say write down as many as you can.

Think of small victories weekly, start off with week, and then maybe move that to three times a week, maybe then it turns into daily, right.

28:20

And I think that puts us in, in a mindset #1, where we can be appreciative of those little things and understand that not every day are we gonna see a mountain of progress.

Sure.

Sometimes progress looks like an inch, you know?

So I would encourage our audience to do that.

28:38

And again, let us know how that works for you.

Yeah.

Just be aware of them.

Yep, they're gonna they're gonna stack up.

Before you know it, you're gonna look back and be like Dang mm hmm.

But it was a summation of a whole lot of small.

Victories was a summation and you have you have to notice them and recognize.

28:57

Them.

Yeah, that's important.

The key be done.

It doesn't matter.

Yeah.

Jared, wrapping up, there are a couple of things that we certainly appreciate from our audience.

Would you like to instruct them on what those things could be?

29:13

Yeah, Speaking of small victories, it gives us such joy when we see people comment on our stuff, like it, share it, any of those things, they actually mean a lot.

I mean, they truly do mean a lot.

A lot of times it's really, I was talking to Preston a few weeks ago before we started the podcast, He was asking you know how things were going and I was like, you know, it's it's it's going pretty good.

29:35

And the the issue with social media, it takes so much of the social aspect out of it in so many facets.

But like, OK, just look at your insights, your metrics, your likes, your views, all these things.

It's so easy for that to just be a numerical value.

29:50

But at the end of the day, no, that is a human.

Yeah, there's a human behind that.

Human behind that.

And it unfortunately, the social media aspect kind of removes that.

Yeah, but anyways.

Which is funny because they claim to bring people.

Together.

Yeah.

So it's just we are so thankful for everybody who's listening.

30:07

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Peace.

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