10/10/2025
True!
🙋🏻♀️Not sure who else needs to hear this today…
Sustainable growth is slow and steady. 🐌
We live in a culture that likes to glorify “overnight success”, “explosive growth”, and “going viral”.
But that's not how sustainable growth works.
I remember hearing this truth a couple of years ago:
👉"Overnight success" takes 10 years.
At the time, I was just starting my business, and I found this truth to be equal parts discouraging… and reassuring.
When you see someone who has “achieved success”, whatever your definition of success is, (ooo, that’s a GREAT topic for another discussion!) it's vital to understand that they were:
Willing to put in the thousands of hours of work
Willing to be a beginner and be terrible at first
Willing to fail, over and over and over
Willing to use all their experiences, good and bad, to shape their future
Willing to stop caring about what other people think of them
Willing to adjust, change, and pivot
Willing to be curious and humble, instead of rigid and judgmental
Willing to do the brave work of facing their shame, fear, and “imposter syndrome”
🚫Do not compare Chapter One of your journey to someone else’s Chapter 12.
Comparison is never useful. It always tears you down.
When you feel frustrated that things are not going fast enough, successful enough, good enough…
Stop. Challenge that thought.
What if you’re exactly where you need to be?
What if everything you’re going through right now is sowing seeds for the future?
🌱Some seeds germinate faster than expected.
🌱Some seeds germinate at the predicted time.
🌱Some seeds take weeks, months, and even years to germinate.
🌱Some seeds require trauma (freezing ❄️, flooding 💦 or fire🔥) to germinate.
🌱Some seeds never germinate.
Your job is not to judge the seeds, but to simply keep tending to them.
Slowly. Gently. Steadily. Tenderly.
This is how sustainable growth happens.
