Every week, we send out one short Daily Chase essay built off an idea we’ve explored in our most recent episode — a single thought or idea worth starting your day with.
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Nobody starts a business expecting to be profitable in month three.
But we start a training program expecting results in week six.
Nick Saban became one of the greatest coaches in history the day he stopped talking about winning. His pregame speech before an impossible matchup: “I don’t care if we win or lose today. All I want is for every player to give their best effort on every single play. When something goes wrong, it means nothing about the next play.”
That’s the process.
Certain bamboo spends its first five years growing roots you can’t see. Water it daily and nothing breaks the surface — no stalk, no proof, nothing to show for the effort. Then, once the roots finally take hold, it shoots up 90 feet in six weeks. The five years weren’t wasted. They were the whole project.
Fitness is the same investment. The results don’t show up when you expect them to. The showing up is what you can control. The results happen on the other side of enough showing up.
If you see progress along the way — a new PR, a pair of pants that fits again, stairs that don’t wind you — those are bonuses. They make it easier to keep going. But you can’t put your hope in them. The only signal worth tracking is the one you control: did you show up today?
Yes? Then you watered the bamboo.
Everything else follows.