When you first start something meaningful, the temptation is to measure everything you can see.
The number of followers.
The pounds lost.
The fruit harvested.
The milestones crossed.
It’s easy to chase quick wins. It’s natural to look for visible proof that your effort is “working.”
But building something that lasts—building something truly rooted—requires a different kind of measurement.
It requires asking better questions:
- Am I moving toward what matters, even if no one notices yet?
- Am I becoming the kind of person who can carry the future I’m building?
- Am I faithful with the small, unseen steps today?
The Hidden Metrics of a Rooted Life
When I seed a garden, I don’t measure success by how it looks after a week.
In fact, sometimes after seeding, it looks worse—empty beds, barely visible sprouts, slow shifts.
If I judged my progress by appearances alone, I would have quit long ago.
The real growth happens underground.
It’s the same in my writing.
It’s the same in vision planning.
It’s the same in life.
Most of the progress worth making doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t fit neatly into “likes” or “metrics.” It’s quieter than that. More stubborn. More lasting.
Vision Over Validation
Building Truly Rooted hasn’t been about overnight growth.
It’s been about showing up in the small moments—writing when no one is reading yet.
Gardening when no one is harvesting yet.
Dreaming about a future orphanage when the land hasn’t even been purchased yet.
It’s not glamorous. It’s daily decisions that often feel invisible.
But if you chase external validation, you will always feel behind.
There will always be someone with faster results, shinier outcomes, louder celebrations.
Vision requires a different measurement:
Faithfulness.
Steadiness.
Roots before branches.
The Seeds You Can’t Rush
One of my favorite reminders comes straight from the garden:
You can’t rush what matters.
You can try to overwater. You can try to plant too early. You can crowd seedlings trying to “maximize” space.
But it doesn’t lead to more fruit. It often stunts growth.
Good fruit takes time, patience, and trust.
In the same way, the life you’re building—the one anchored in meaning, legacy, and love—can’t be rushed.
It has to be seeded.
Tended.
Protected.
Watered.
Believed in before it’s seen.
What I Measure Now
I don’t measure success by speed anymore.
I measure it by faithfulness.
- Did I plant today, even if I don’t see results tomorrow?
- Did I write today, even if no one reads it today?
- Did I sow kindness and patience into my children, even if it takes years for those seeds to bear fruit?
This is the real work.
This is what matters.
You’re Further Than You Think
Maybe today you feel behind. Maybe you feel invisible. Maybe your effort feels like it’s falling into a void.
But pause.
Look again.
You’re further than you think.
You’re measuring your success with a deeper ruler. One that doesn’t snap with the weather or the crowd’s noise. One that stretches across seasons, decades, and generations.
You’re planting for a future you may never fully see—and that’s not failure.
That’s faithfulness.
So if you need a reminder today:
- Progress isn’t always visible.
- Roots grow before fruit appears.
- Faithful effort is never wasted.
- Slow growth is still growth.
Keep watering what you’ve planted.
Keep tending to what matters.
Keep measuring what counts—not what trends.
You’re not falling behind.
You’re being rooted.
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