Unseen Hours: Episode 11 - Measure Twice

Rushing leads to cracks. Reflection builds precision. This episode is about patience — slowing down long enough to make intentional moves that last. Every detail matters when you’re building something real.

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You wanna make sure when you're preparing to go for your goals and you know you're trying your best to achieve certain things that you be patient. Um now if you look at my story you can probably say that I'm not a proponent for being patient. Um I tend to just go for whatever I'm going for. But I don't feel that's necessarily true. I feel I just research and then once I research and study and learn what I need to learn, and usually the basics, you know, if I feel mentally ready and emotionally ready to try to handle it, I go for it. I know in myself that I'm ready to tackle on whatever this endeavor is, so I'm gonna try it. Um will I feel or will I pass? Who knows? But I feel ready. Even if it doesn't seem like I'm ready or if it's not usual for a person to go this soon, I myself feel like I'm ready. And um it it's worked for me, to be honest. Uh when I say be patient, I mean you want to be patient in the training and patient in research. So if you're at work or you're at school, you want to be patient with yourself and in regards to okay, I need to learn this thing for work. So you train and you learn it. Now, how soon do you feel comfortable doing it on your own? That's all on you. But I do feel that whenever you're training, you need to be patient with it all. And you know, it it's really on exposure. For me, I expose myself to a lot of things when I'm working in training constantly. So if I'm constantly doing it over and over again, I'm gonna feel more comfortable and want to do it. Um most people they probably take their time and don't really uh really dig deep into whatever they're doing as soon as I do and as often as I do. So it takes them more time to, you know, really go for whatever they're uh trying to achieve, whether it be qualifications or just learning the job in general. I really dive deep into it and uh do my best to immerse myself in it so I can just really uh just get that experience. Because the more experienced I get, the more comfortable I get, and the more confident I'll get that I can do it on my own. So when I say patience, I do have patience, but I also know myself enough to know if I throw myself into something over and over and over and over again over time, instead of waiting two, three weeks and be able to get that done and be able to do it on my own, I could probably do it within a week. I wouldn't say a few days. That'd be a little, that'd be pushing it, but at least a week. Um and with school, it's uh for me, school is more so you wanna figure out what your flow is. Once you figure out what your flow is and how you're going to approach uh doing your assignments and things of that nature, then you know you'll be good. You just gotta figure out exactly like what days are good for you, what times are good for you. Uh, which class is gonna take up more time and require you to spend more time doing it, and what classes you can kind of push off a little bit and do it later on and not have to worry about getting it finished. Which class is gonna give you five-page papers that you have to type where you have to allot 30 minutes to an hour just to type it, you know. So, and even worse, math classes. And I love math, but math classes, those classes, when you're doing the assignments, it takes hours. Um nonetheless, you know, you wanna find that time to do those things. And for me, it's all I make sure that you know I find the time to do things and learn things the right way. Uh and then it's all on your comfort level, and you just need to learn yourself and learn your style and what works for you. If you're able to do things over and over again and learn it pretty quickly and then, you know, feel comfortable enough to do it on your own, then you need to go for that. But if you feel like it's something that you need to constantly do over and over again over time, and you know, may need instead of like a few weeks, maybe a month or two, just be honest with yourself and be like, okay, this is what I need to do. Be honest with the people that you're working with, and then go from there. There's nothing wrong with being honest, you know, just let them know where you're standing and be able to take care of it. And then if you say you need like a month or two to learn this thing, and then you realize within the first two, three weeks that you got it, let them know and be like, you know, uh, I feel comfortable doing it. I don't think I really need as much time as I thought I did. In the end, your performance is based on you and you want to be great at whatever you're doing, so you need to take your time to learn everything that you need to learn so you can actually achieve it. Uh at work, most people take two to three months to get their qualification for gowning. Um, for me, it took me less than a month. That's because I was constantly telling them, like, I want to practice, and then I think I really got it down once I practiced on my own. I didn't have anyone there. I didn't have anyone watching me or trying to help me. I had them train me for about a week or two with the person there, and then I just tried over and over again by myself. And then by the time I went to do to do the quall, it wasn't easy. Um it definitely um was challenging, but in the end I still passed it. So any, I'm just saying it's to say get your experience, and then once you get your experience, don't be afraid to practice on your own. So whenever you go out there, you can take care of it. I'm just gonna stone, and this is unseen hours.