Your Unorthodox Path Is Working Even When It Doesn't Feel Like It | Episode 461

Your Unorthodox Path Is Working Even When It Doesn't Feel Like It | Episode 461

Waiting is easy when you don’t care. When you do care, the clock feels personal. We get real about impatience, the kind that shows up when you’re building something meaningful and you want proof that it’s working right now.

I’m Justin Alan Hayes, and I share what it feels like to carry a long-term mission through short-term frustration at Voices for Voices. We talk about the everyday triggers of impatience, then connect them to bigger goals like growing a global nonprofit, reaching more countries and cities, and staying steady when progress isn’t a straight line. If you’ve ever felt pressure to produce “deliverables” fast, or felt misunderstood because your path is a little unorthodox, you’ll recognize yourself here.

We also dig into the mindset that helps when doubt gets loud: stepping back to see the bigger picture, remembering that anything worth doing takes time, and choosing work you genuinely love so the hard days don’t automatically equal failure. I touch on the emotional weight of needing to show results and why support systems matter, especially when you’re driven and ambitious.

If you’re searching for motivation, patience, personal growth, goal setting, or nonprofit leadership lessons, this is a short reset you can come back to when the wait feels like too much. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s building something, and leave a review with the dream you’re refusing to quit on.

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Chapter Markers

0:00 Welcome And Mission Updates

3:50 Why I Struggle With Waiting

8:00 Progress Rarely Moves In Straight Lines

11:45 Deliverables Doubt And Staying Called

15:10 Timeframes That Build Real Results

17:20 Dream Bigger And Believe Anyway

22:05 Closing Thanks And Share The Show

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Transcript

Welcome And Mission Updates

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 0:02

Hey everyone, it's Justin here, Voices for Voices. Thank you so much for joining us on this episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast. Whether you're watching, whether you're listening, whether you're here in the United States or across the world, thank you so much for making uh Voices for Voices uh one of the top shows in the world, uh the top podcasts in the world. Uh we're just so uh so grateful for you. Uh if you can give us a big thumbs up, like, follow, subscribe, share, uh, reach out to 25 or 50 your contacts on your phone. Let them know about voices for voices. Uh word of mouth is uh is awesome. And and each of you are awesome for joining us. No matter how long or how short you've been with us. Uh, we want to greet you and say thank you so much for joining us. We're glad to have you with us. And it's just uh it's an incredible time here at Voices for Voices. Uh, we're getting closer and closer to reaching that humongous goal of reaching 3 billion people, reaching and helping 3 billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond, uh, as well as reaching uh over 300 countries, territories, and provinces. We're well over 110 at this point, and help us reach over 3,000 uh cities across the world. Uh, we're well over, I think, uh, 11, 1200 uh cities that we've reached thus far. And uh the whole reason, it's it's because of you, it's not because of us. Uh we're just the um we're just the mouthpiece uh uh of sharing content, sharing uh stories, events, uh and and we really just want to help people. Uh that's been my goal from day one with Voices for Voices, and that is continuing, and it will continue uh for the duration of this organization, which isn't a fly-by-night organization. Uh, this is a uh century, two-century uh long business organization. We are a nonprofit 501c3 nonprofit charity organization. So any and anything you're able to do, if you're able to pitch in uh a dollar, uh we would greatly appreciate that. You can head on over to lovevoices.org, lovevoices.org, and lovevoices.org. That is l-o-v-e v o i c e s dot o r g. And I'm Justin Alan Hayes uh here with Voices for Voices. Uh it's really an incredible time here at the organization and also a very impatient uh time at at uh at times uh where those of you who have had projects or had goals that you're you're working on, you hear jingle bell, that that's our dog Lucy. So uh you're you're probably hearing it. Uh people think, wait a minute, am I hearing a bell? What's going on? And so impatience, so that's that's what we're gonna talk about with with this show. Uh I'm an impatient person. I don't like I don't like to wait. I like for you know, we have ideas, we have projects, we have you have different different things. Uh we don't want to wait, right? That's why there's what's called fast food uh restaurants where you can order. Oh, now Lucy's growling too. So uh she's got plenty to eat, plenty, plenty of water to drink, so she's good. Uh she's just playing with her chew toy. Uh and and so it's you know, or impatient, you know, as I as I just stated, with I don't want to wait 15 minutes, 10 minutes for my food. I want it right now. I want to order it in my car, in my truck, on my bike, and then I want to pull just around the building, not around the whole building, just you know, maybe half of the building, if that and then I want to pick up, I want to pay, and then I want to pick up uh my food. And so that's what I'm talking about, uh, you know, being impatient, and that is not the easiest to do uh with you know bigger projects, you know, bigger uh yeah, bigger projects, but bigger, bigger things, uh and even some small things. And it really doesn't matter what what size of the project or the s what what size of that thing is that that you want to complete, um maybe maybe it's a Lego. Um I'm not very Lego inclined. I'm not a very uh artist inclined. I I prefer coloring than than than drawing. Uh so that's that's just me. I've I've found that's like my my my part that um that I I like to do when I have the opportunity is uh is the coloring. And and so having an adult coloring book is kind of helpful because the pictures are already uh already drawn. You know, there's sometimes numbers that relate to uh you know the colors. And sometimes there's not. Uh and so that impatience of oh, do I have to wait? Do I have to wait for for this to be drawn before I can color it or paint it? That's that's just that's just me. Uh fast food uh not is not usually that the healthiest. Um not usually the healthiest food. Uh and that and that's okay. Uh because we're just talking about you know patience, impatience, and as as it relates to a prior episode, uh very recent episode actually, talking about how we took the idea of having uh an audio-only podcast, actually, two audio-only podcasts, and then how we worked our way again. This is oh my four years ago, maybe, maybe four years ago, maybe five, to where we are today, and if you would have asked me back at that point, you know, hey Justin, do you do you do you think in several years that you would be here, that you're reaching people, that you're helping people near and far, and the amount of episodes, amount of cities, amount of territories, uh countries, provinces, etc. I probably would have said you're crazy, or I'm crazy for bringing it up. As I as I talk through one of that, uh one of our earlier episodes, it may actually even be the episode right before this one, depending on when it uh when it drops. Um and so we'd look at the evolution of how we get from point A to point B. And it's we've talked about this many, many, many times. It's very rarely a straight line. You know, there's peaks, there's valleys. Sometimes there's more peaks, sometimes there's more valleys, and so that's where that that pate that we hear you, Lucy. Uh sometimes it's just so un unpredictable, and we just have to. Kind of go with the flow. If we're doing what we love, if we're doing what we feel like we're meant to do, which I do with voices for voices, then it doesn't feel like as much of work uh as something uh different. If I didn't feel that I was being called to be a doctor, then even though that is a very, very noble profession, and I I just I don't have the stomach to be able to do that, uh you know, bless everybody, bless the doctors, nurses, the techs, everyb everybody, the anesthesiologist, everybody that's involved. Uh it's and it's especially with we we talk about medical care that oftentimes it takes time. And so we just have to take take time. It's not easy, it's not fun, it's not something we look forward to. It absolutely is not something we we look forward to. I look forward to completing a project, getting something done and out, and part of it is I feel like I have to show I have to show what I've done. And my my counselor and psychiatrist, they they know the the medical terms and and and diagnoses and and that that come with that. But I do, I feel like I gotta show, like, here's what I'm doing, because it's it's a little bit unorthodox, it's more accepted now than it was 10, 20 years ago. What we're doing here at Voices for Voices. But it's unorthodox for the for the majority of people. And so I I I get it. I I can see how it can seem like where's the deliverables? Why isn't it happening quicker? And I and I I wonder the exact same thing. What's taking so long? The deliverables, where are they at? And so like I'm I'm uh I'm like a I'm like a child. Like, look, look, look what I've done, look what I've done. And then if it's not a topic that relates to somebody, then it can even be a worse thing of you spend your time on this topic, and it comes down to not everybody's gonna love every single thing we do. Doesn't matter who we are, doesn't matter where we live, doesn't matter how much money we have, doesn't matter any of that. It doesn't. That's why it matters so much for us to do what we feel that we're called to do, what we love to do. Because nobody nobody's gonna pick up on it if we don't we're not believing ourselves. If we don't have that belief ourselves, might as well pack it in. And I felt like that many a times of well what are we doing here? What are we doing here? And the closer I got to that, those feelings and those thoughts, then something else happens. It's like, oh that's why. That's why we're still here. And so even every day, every moment is not gonna be filled with all these accolades. It's just not. And so that's where the patience comes in. That I'm not great at. I'm not great at having the patience. But we have to have patience. Cause like I said, a majority of things take time. Anything worth doing, for the most part, takes time. Unless you win the lottery, the Powerball, you win big at a casino. It's gonna take some time. Maybe a day, maybe a week, maybe a month, maybe six months, maybe a year, maybe ten years. And it just comes down to how much do we want to put in of ourselves, of our mind, body, spirit, soul and to what we're doing. That for me helps a little bit with the patience. Doesn't help a hundred percent. It doesn't help a hundred percent at all with the patience. It helps a little bit though, because I'm able to go, okay. Let me just take a step back or two or three steps back. And when I do that, I go, oh, I didn't realize we were this close to this or that or this or that or this or that. And so we just have to we have to believe in ourselves, we have to keep dreaming. We have to always keep dreaming, never stop dreaming, never stop believing in ourselves. Never ever ever stop believing in yourself. Every single one of us is here on this earth for one reason or another. I got chills just saying that, so I know that's the fact. And so I want to see you dream, live out your dreams, go after your dreams. There's gonna be times people are gonna doubt you. There's gonna be times where a lot of people are gonna doubt you. There's gonna be times where you're going, oh my gosh, why have I spent so much time on this? And there's gonna be other times you're going to go, oh my gosh, I didn't realize that five years ago, this one thing that I did, that really started it all. And I get goosebumps again. Uh as I revert back to, you know, where it all started. The doubt, the money. Nothing nothing can take the heart out of what you what you what you do, what you have done, what you're going to do. So you just gotta do it. It's okay to ask questions, it's okay to do your research or due diligence. It's okay to ask people their thoughts. At the end of the day, though, you have to be the one that makes the decision. Because you're the one that's gonna be waking up every morning or afternoon, depending on you know, sleep schedules and and and such. Uh you're gonna be the one that's gonna have to look yourself in the mirror. Like, I gotta look myself in the mirror and go, okay, Justin, are you doing what are you doing with your life? What are you doing with your life? Is it worth it? And I can say, heck yeah, it's worth it. And so because I I believe in myself, I dream, I believe that God put me here for a reason, that he's kept me here for a reason. And even if I'm no longer on this earth tomorrow, again, I'm not foretelling anything, but for some reason, today's my last day. Our shows are gonna live on. We're gonna continue helping people for a long, long time, and that's exactly what I want to do. It's exactly what we are doing at Voices for Voices in so many different ways. In a way we're we're really just getting started. Yeah. We're just getting started. So maybe that maybe maybe you are too. That's okay. It takes five, ten years to finally get started. There's gonna be some bumps, some bruises, some some obstacles. Some forks in the road we gotta pick. Sometimes we'll pick the wrong one, we'll have to back up, and then go down the other other fork, side of the fork. But that's all that's all that's all normal. That's all normal. And everybody's gone through that at some level, big or small. So let this be a time for reflection. A time to not worry as much. Like a time to be a little bit just a teeny bit more patient. And a time for you to dream, a time for you to go after your dreams, a time for you to believe believe in yourself. And then others will believe in you as well. So thank you so much for joining us on this episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast. I'm Justin Allen Hayes, founder of Voices for Voices. Thank you so much. If you can give us a big thumbs up, like, follow, subscribe, share. If you can reach out to maybe 25 contacts in your phone and say, hey, you got to check out the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast. This is one of the hottest shows and podcasts in the world. Because it is. The analytics prove it out. We are. It's taking a while to get here. And it's going to continue to take a while. So thank you so much for being a part of us and spending your time, your energy with us, no matter how much time or how little time. Just remember, voices for voices. Have a great day. We're sending good vibes your way. And we're thinking about you. We're praying for you. For prosperity, for success, whatever that means to you. Have a wonderful day. We'll talk to you on the next episode. Bye bye.