From Seed To Significance - Building Big With Little - (Part 3)

We conclude our "Seed to Significance: Building Big with Little" series by exploring how to stay committed through quiet seasons of growth while focusing on the legacy we're quietly planting today.

• Overcoming the fear of starting small requires understanding that everything significant starts with a seed
• Learning to endure the "darkness" of growth seasons when progress feels invisible
• Recognizing that quiet seasons aren't isolation - you're in development, not abandonment
• Finding a community that lifts you up rather than holds you back
• Taking wisdom from Steve Jobs: "Don't lose faith when life hits you with a brick."
• Starting humble with limited resources can still yield extraordinary outcomes
• Building from your existing skills rather than waiting for perfect conditions
• Your dream is valid regardless of your current resource limitations
• The Wright brothers created flight with limited tools, shaped into extraordinary outcomes

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Chapters

• 0:00 Series Recap: Seed to Significance
• 3:39 What Legacy Are You Planting?
• 6:04 Staying Committed Through Quiet Seasons
• 10:29 Steve Jobs' Wisdom on Perseverance
• 15:09 Building Big with Little Resources
• 16:39 Closing Thoughts and Call-to-Action

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:20

All right. So we're back to finish up our series on seed to significance, building big with little part three. So we're going to touch on all three of our points that we started the series off with overcoming the fear of starting small, recognizing the value in your current resources and staying committed through the quiet seasons of growth. We're going to go ahead and sum them all up and get you on your way to success. Hopefully, let's do it, hey, hey, welcome back to the all-purpose pod for an all-purpose life. Wherever you are and however you're listening today, Call me Mr U in the Inspiration Station. Thanks again for making us part of your week. So glad to be back with you guys. We're talking from seed to significance building big with little. This series has been awesome. If you haven't got the first two episodes, the first two parts of this series, by all means please check it out on all of your listening platforms that you use and, of course, on our YouTube channel, youtubecom at theycallmemisteryou. Please check it out, Take notes, Let us know how it's helping you, because it's definitely helping me and what I'm hearing is helping out many of you who were in the series from the beginning. I tried to encourage you guys from the start, to explore the sacred truth that everything great begins with a seed. We talked about David, his humble beginnings as a shepherd to becoming the greatest king that ever lived. No matter what your resources are, your dream is valid. We talked about overcoming the fear of starting small. We also touched on recognizing the value in your current resources. Today we're going to try to hammer that last point home, sum it all up and hopefully get you on your way to being successful and accomplishing some of the things that you want to accomplish in life. So bear with me. Let's try to feel strong, so staying committed through the quiet seasons of growth. I've been asking questions throughout the course of this series. I have a question today what legacy are you quietly planting today? What legacy are you quietly planting today? You know how it works on our show, especially on the Inspiration Station, when we're talking about seeds and plants, I give you guys a garden analogy. I can't even help it. In the Inspiration Station, when we're talking about seeds and plants, I give you guys a garden analogy. I can't even help it in the most natural. Now I'm actually out here in the South planting stuff, growing fruits and vegetables. Never thought it would happen. But here we are, almost 10 years in growing almost everything out here. But what legacy are you quietly planting today?

Speaker 1: 3:23

I know people and this is what I used to work in the corporate workforce people who wanted to have a job. I was a recruiter at one point too. I did a lot of stuff. I was a recruiter. At one point you got these kids up in here still smelling like Similac, talking about they want a $25-hour job. We had them. But they came into my office. They were in dress, pants, sagging. I'm like where's your belt, boy? I was already at odds with them already, because they came in unprepared for the interview, Came in late and they won a $25-hour job and the last job they had was $9-hour and they quit. The last three jobs they had were under $10 an hour and they walked off all three of the jobs. But you can come into my office and talk about you want a $25 an hour job. Yeah, that's sure going to happen, right?

Speaker 1: 4:13

What legacy are you quietly planting?

Speaker 1: 4:15

Those young people came into my office planting a legacy of failure, a lack of self-respect, a lack of self-awareness, a lack of work ethic, and they're going to pass that on to the next generation if they don't make adjustments and changes in their behavior, in their mindset, in the areas of discipline. That's the legacy they're planting today. What legacy are you planting today? What legacy are you planting today? What are you growing? Are you trying to grow a complaint tree? Are you trying to grow a alibi bush? What are you growing today? Let's get into what it means to stay committed through the quiet seasons of growth. I want to get into this. I know we probably went out time, but I'll do my best to keep us going. Please go back to our first two episodes to kind of follow this. I'm so sorry but life happens fast. But I love this because it seems to me, especially in the conversations that I'm doing or just in private chats, it feels to me like people are unable to deal with the silence that comes with the quiet seasons. What do I mean when I talk about there you go gardening analogy. You knew it was coming.

Speaker 1: 5:34

Right when a seed grows and we plant a lot of seed, two, three times a year in a lot of cases, sometimes more Right. We put that seed in the ground, we cover it well, make sure it's compacted well and whatnot. We water it, make sure it has access to the sun. We recognize that it's going to be growing and doing things in the earth that we can't see. It's going to be in obscurity, it's going to be in darkness. That seed is growing but you can't dig it out and say, hey, how you doing down there, Because you're going to kill the seed. You've got to leave it in the darkness. You've got to leave the seed in obscurity. You can't go check on it, stick your finger in it and see how it feels. Do you feel anything yet? No, you leave it in there and let it continue its process.

Speaker 1: 6:28

The process is important for anything you're trying to grow in life, whether it be a fruit or a vegetable, or whether it be a dream, a project, a goal that you have for your life, a vision you want to accomplish. There's a process to it. You can't get around that. There's no book to give you a shortcut. You can try to find one. If there is, throw it in the trash, Because the book is probably trash. There's no shortcut through the process. It's not going to work. If you try to eat an apple when it's not ripe, it's going to taste awful. Leave it on the tree until it's ripe and you enjoy some incredible flavor from that food. There's a process that growth has to take, and it starts with obscurity and it starts with darkness. That seed is away from everything and it's relying on enough water and enough light to help it to grow, but it still stays in darkness until it's not.

Speaker 1: 7:24

How many of you are in a place of darkness? How many of you are in a place of obscurity? How many of you are in a place of obscurity? You know you got a big dream, you know you got a big goal, but guess what? You feel like nobody sees you, Nobody hears you, Nobody understands you. You feel like you're not even known. You're that seed. I'm talking to you. You're that seed in obscurity. You're that seed in darkness. But bear in mind, I want talking to you. You're that seed in obscurity. You're that seed in darkness. But bear in mind, I want you to understand this You're not in isolation and God has not forgotten about you. I'll say it again for those in the way in the back. They may not hear me You're not in isolation and God has not forgotten about you. You're just in a season of growing. You're in a growth season and it's quiet. You're just in a season of growing. You're in a growth season and it's quiet. You don't feel anything, you don't sense anything. You don't even smell or hear anything. It's just quiet.

Speaker 1: 8:16

Ask me how I know I've been through those seasons so many times and you think it's one season, right, and then you're done, right. Thought it dissuades you. But it's not that there are multiple seasons of growth and they're all equally as quiet. How do you stay committed? For me personally, I speak for myself. I won't tell you what to do. You can learn from Mr Yu's lesson today and do with it what you will.

Speaker 1: 8:41

I was in several seasons like that. I was in a season where I had paper, I had finance, I had money. There was a time when I had paper you put on the walls. I had achievements and certifications and documents and all the things that said you know what. You should be successful, you should be doing great, you got all the tools, but I feel like people couldn't see me, Like I would be a visible man walking around the earth. Nobody saw my value, Nobody saw what I can accomplish. Nobody saw what I can do. It was a quiet season of growth.

Speaker 1: 9:25

I felt like everything I was saying was just going to fall to the ground. Nobody was a quiet season of growth If ever there was one. I felt like everything I was saying was just going to fall to the ground. Nobody was going to care. I know some of that stuff was mindset, but a lot of it was just the season that I was in. I was being kept away from some things that I shouldn't have been involved with. I was being kept in obscurity. I was kept in darkness until an appointed time. But how do I encourage you with the way you feel during that time? Honestly, I got to keep it real. I got to be honest with you. It doesn't feel good. I can't help it. Feel good for you. It doesn't feel good, but the thing that kept me committed was recognizing that I know I had value. I know that what I was going to accomplish, the dreams that I had, the goals that I had written in my journal or in this college, all around my house I knew that this was going to happen. I knew the division was bigger than me. I knew the goal was bigger than me. It was God inspired. I said this is big. This is going to help a lot of people. It's bigger than me. I said this is big, this is going to help a lot of people. It's bigger than me.

Speaker 1: 10:31

I got to just walk through this season and it wasn't easy. At first I kicked against it a little bit, I rebelled just a little bit, but eventually I said you know what? I'm going to lean into this. If I'm the invisible man, I'm going to stay invisible. I ain't going to talk too loud, I ain't going to scream and holler, I ain't going to make no scene, I ain't going to be a distraction. I'm going to stay here, endure this process and when the time comes, I'll come out.

Speaker 1: 10:55

Well, spoiler alert, I'm getting ready to come out, but we'll talk about that on a different show, at a different time, when I can discuss it. But I'm getting ready to come out the ground. I'm getting ready to come out the dirt. I'm getting ready to come out of the darkness and obscurity because something is getting ready to happen. So thank you for being patient while I was in this quiet season. I'm getting ready to come out. But what am I telling you? Stay committed. The only way to do that is to stay focused on who is growing you. For me, it's God. I don't know who it is for you, but for me it's God. I'm growing in obscurity, but I'm getting ready to come out because I have a purpose. I've been manufactured with a grand design. There's something for me out here and I want to just encourage you guys, as we get ready to move close to the end of this episode, that there's going to be quiet seasons of growth. There's going to be areas where you're going to feel like you're by yourself.

Speaker 1: 11:50

This is when I say embrace community again. Embrace community. I don't mean a community that keeps you down, that talks to you like you're five that you got to dumb down for because they ain't trying to go nowhere or do nothing in life. I'm talking about the kind of community that uplifts you. Not a hand-out generation, but a hand-up generation. The kind of community that helps grow you and stretch you and push you out into the deep and say you know what? I see more in you than what your friends see. I see more in you than what your friends see. I see more in you than what Uncle Bebe and them see. Move out, have faith, have confidence, Test the waters, Do something more than what you've seen and what you've heard and what people said was your future Go further than that. I love what Steve Jobs said. His story is amazing If you take time to check it out.

Speaker 1: 12:43

He has some great advice about how to persevere when times get tough. He said sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I know most of y'all you get hit in the head with a brick. You're going to lose faith immediately and you might lose your mind and you might show out. He said sometimes life will hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. That's an advice to future billionaires who are not where he already is. He said that. He also said don't wait to start until you have all your investment in place. People say I need to have X amount of money to get started, but he said that's not the way to start and it goes back to our original topic building big with little. He said in many cases you need to have a lot of money to start a business or to start a project. A lot of times you can start it from your kitchen table. Kind of get a loan from the bank is often it's a trial and I love his advice because it's really honest.

Speaker 1: 13:48

He says you know what, if you have the motivation and the goal and determination, if you have community to, you're even better off and even way further ahead than most folks. Start humble start with a low budget. You might be surprised what you can accomplish. You're even better off and even way further ahead than most folks. Start humble Start with a low budget. You might be surprised what you're going to accomplish. You can build big with little. You don't have to have big things to build big things. Your goal, your dream, your hope, your vision is not going to be big in the beginning. Like we said earlier, that sacred truth is that everything great begins with a seed. You got that inside of you. The Wright brothers were flying and that was revolutionary. Before there were planes and helicopters, these guys were flying. They did that with limited tools and shaped them into extraordinary outcomes. He did that with limited tools and shaped them into extraordinary outcomes.

Speaker 1: 14:45

Don't allow the thing that looks like limitations to keep you from growing. You are growing, you are becoming and you're not alone. People are just like you out here trying to accomplish the same things. They're trying to build their own website. They're trying to build their coaching business. They're trying to build their hair salon and their nail salon and their barbershop. They're trying to build their restaurant. Sometimes you have to start with little. What do you bring to the table? If you can't cook, don't bother trying to start a restaurant. If you don't have a handful of at least 15 recipes that you can make skillfully, that's more important than you getting a loan from the bank. If you can't cook, don't bother starting a restaurant. If you don't know how to line somebody up and cut their hair, don't bother trying to start a barbershop. You're wasting your time. That's my whole point. Those little things, the little techniques and skills. They matter more than all the other stuff, because that's where the dream is going to be built from what you can do, what you do have available to offer your current resources.

Speaker 1: 15:50

I hope this was encouraging to you. I hope you got all you needed from this. I would love to continue the conversation. I'm pretty sure that three episodes may not have covered all the things that you may have on your mind, things that you may want to talk about, things that may have come to mind as you heard this series. You may have more questions. I submit to you that I'm really open to answer those questions. Talk to you about your situation in detail. I'm totally happy we're doing that.

Speaker 1: 16:15

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