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This episode discusses the importance of the unseen foundational work during periods of stagnation in personal growth and the need for consistent effort despite a lack of visible results.

Get on the DEFENSE waitlist: elizabethbenton.com/defense-app/ My kids planted zinnias, and then they stopped growing. They came through the dirt and just sat there, day after day, doing nothing. I was ready to take a chainsaw to a tree over it. Turns out the zinnias weren't broken. They were in the root stage. All the energy was going underground, where I couldn't see it, building the system that lets a plant shoot up later. The part that looked like failure was actually the most important work the plant would ever do. This episode is about what that root stage exposes in us. We want results to show up in tandem with our effort, and they don't. There is almost always a gap between when you put the work in and when you get to see it. That gap is where most people quit their debt payoff, their nutrition, their training, and go looking for a different plan that isn't actually the problem. So I'm asking you the honest question. Have you been consistent over time, through a stretch where you weren't seeing results? And if your answer is "kinda," I'll save you the suspense. Kinda is a no. If it's not a hell yes, it's a no. We also get into the apple tree, and why I have to pick the…

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