Latest / Live 100 Podcast with Jason Yarusi / The Cathedral Builders

Transcript

The Cathedral Builders · Live 100 Podcast with Jason Yarusi

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: You're comparing your foundation to someone else's rooftop.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: Today, let's talk about the cathedral builders.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: We've become so addicted to instant results.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: We expect our business to explode in three months.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: We want our investments to double overnight.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Everything meaningful in life just it grows slowly.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: The difference wasn't the task, it was in the vision.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: Purpose changes ordinary work into meaningful work.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: So my challenge to you, stop asking, how fast can I get there?
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: Start asking, what am I building?
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Because when you know you're building a cathedral, laying one stone today doesn't feel so insignificant.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: It feels like central.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: All right, let's go if you're tired of not feeling fit, tired of just not having a focus, tired of just not having the light that you deserve.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is the place to be.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Jason Your City today.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about the cathedral builders.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine at one point in time, you were given the opportunity to build the most fascinating building the world has ever seen.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Just truly transcendent debt, beyond what the mind can imagine that you were given that opportunity that you became the one to build it.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: But there's just one thing.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: As part of this process, you would never ever get to see it finished.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: Would you still show up to work tomorrow or just even start this process?
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, this this question's fascinating to me for years because for hundreds of years, that's exactly what's happened across Europe.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, many of these cathedrals that we admire today, they weren't built in five years, I mean, or even ten.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, some of these took decades, centuries, hundreds of years to be built.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Think about this.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: You know, a stonemason could spend just forty years or more carving pillars, arches, and walls, knowing full well that what he was working on, he will never get to see finished.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe even his grandchildren could never even fully admire the full scope of the work that was invested.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: He laid stones for a future that he would never experience.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: Today, we've become so addicted to instant results.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: We expect our business to explode in three months.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: We want our investments to double overnight.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: We go to work out and we can understand why we don't have six-pack abs in six months.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: We uh want our marriages to just be perfect, right?
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: That they thrive without actually uh ever putting in the intentional work.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: Everything.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's become about speed, right?
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: AI today.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: We were not even thinking anymore because we're using AI to predict our thoughts or just uh put out our emails, right?
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: And to to forecast all our results.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: Everything meaningful in life, just it grows slowly.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's this old story where a there was these three stone cutters and a traveler came up to the first one and said, What are you doing?
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: Then he replied, I'm cutting rocks.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: The traveler then went to the second one.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what are you doing?
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: And that second one said, I'm earning a living.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: Finally, he asked the third one, and that man smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: You know, all three of these men were doing the exact same thing, uh, the same work, just the difference wasn't a task, it was in the vision.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: That's true in our lives.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know, what one person, they see someone that is making a sales call, another sees it as a work in workout, another sees it as a bedtime story for their children.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: But someone else understands is that I'm building trust, I'm building discipline, I'm building a family, I'm building legacy.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: Purpose changes ordinary work into meaningful work.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: And history just it gives us incredible examples of this.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: The builders of the Great Wall of China didn't complete it in a single generation.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: It evolved over centuries throughout dynasties.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: You know, generation after generation, added another section, it just hundreds and hundreds of miles.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: And they understood that something we forgot.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Great things, they're not inherited.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: They're rarely created overnight, and the same truth is of our business, our family, our faith, our character.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: These aren't built-in moments.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: They're built throughout thousands of faithful days.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I think about my own life.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: I uh people might see investments into apartment communities, into my businesses, into the these podcast episodes and investments, but that's not really what I'm looking at building.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to build men and women who who think differently.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to build a family who knows integrity matters.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to build a reputation that my kids can be proud of long after I'm gone.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, one of the greatest things I can do today is to invest in my kids that in the future, when they're poised to make decisions in challenging times that I prepared them, that they can have the thought process to look at that challenge and make a clear choice of how to proceed.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Things don't happen because of just one speed or a speech, one deal, or a podcast.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: They happen because you choose to consistently do them over decades.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: And the danger in our culture, I mean social media, it's convinced us that everyone else's cathedral was built overnight.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, look at this person.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_00: They've done so well, right?
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: Look at this other person.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_00: Man, well, look at what they have, right?
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: That they've all had this.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: And you don't see the 20 years of invisible mournings.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: You see this championship, not the empty gym.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: You see the business, not the years of rejection, the pushback, the failures.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: You see a marriage, not of the investment, of the conversation, of the time spent to be a great couple together.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: You're comparing your foundation to someone else's rooftop.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the Bible says in Galatians, let us not grow wary in doing good.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: For all the proper time, we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: Notice it doesn't immediately say, it says a proper time, not right away.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: The harvest has a schedule.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: Your job is simply to keep planning.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: So my challenge to you, stop asking, how fast can I get there?
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: And start asking, what am I building?
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because when you know you're building a cathedral, laying one stone today doesn't feel so insignificant.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: It feels essential.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: That workout today, it matters.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: That meeting has to happen.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: The prayers, daily.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: Bedtime stories, the hard conversations, every stone matters.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: One day, someone else may stand inside the life that you've built and never realize how many quiet days it took to get there.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: But that's okay.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's okay because the cathedral builders never needed applause.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: They simply knew that what they were doing, the work mattered.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: So remember, you may not control how quickly your cathedral rises, but you absolutely control whether or not you lay another stone today.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: All right, that's what I have for you today.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: This is the Living Windows Podcast.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Jason Russi.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: Let's do this.