Day 133 - Even a Blind Squirrel

February 18, 2026

Episode Theme:
Why opportunity often feels scarce when it’s actually abundant.

Key Topics:

The childhood phrase “even a blind squirrel finds an acorn”
What forest floors and acorns reveal about opportunity
Searching for ideal customers in a competitive market
The difference between seeing and repeating what others say
Fear-based advice vs. experience-based insight
How scarcity narratives discourage action
Abundance hidden in plain sight
Choosing evidence over opinion
Staying focused despite discouraging voices

Notable Takeaways:

Opportunity is easier to find when you look for yourself.
Many warnings come from fear, not reality.
Markets look crowded until you actually engage them.
Abundance feels like luck to people who never searched.
The real obstacle is listening to the wrong voices.

Suggested Reflections:

Where have you been told something is “too hard” or “too crowded”?
What would change if you tested that belief yourself?
Whose advice is based on fear instead of experience?
What “acorns” might already be around you?

Memorable Line (Paraphrase):

“The work isn’t finding the acorns — it’s stopping yourself from believing they aren’t there.”

Episode Transcript

Guy Reams (00:00.674)
This is day 133, even a blind squirrel. When I was a child in Midwestern Colorado, people used figures of speech to make light of someone or to clarify a point. Whenever I did something right, they might tell me even a blind squirrel can find an acorn in the forest now and then. I realized today that they probably never actually crawled around on the forest floor before.

If you've ever sat down on the forest floor around trees that have acorns in them, you will notice that finding an acorn is actually not that hard at all. In fact, a blind squirrel might not have that much trouble. That is, unless the other squirrels already beat them to it. This got me to thinking about my predicament right now. Everyone says that my target ideal customer is hard to find and that there's a lot of competition. They say that one or two that I found were just lucky. A blind squirrel could do that.

But the reality is that these people are blind to themselves. Ideal customers are actually everywhere. Getting the ideal customer is not that hard at all. In fact, so far, the experience has just been like the forest floor. Acorns everywhere. The reality is that a blind squirrel would thrive in a forest full of acorns. I've been listening to the wrong voices. The people telling me it's hard have not looked closely at what is actually there. They are repeating what they have heard, not what they have seen.

They are speaking from fear and not from experience. The reality is that a blind squirrel would thrive in a forest full of acorns. So I think I'll just ignore these blind men and keep harvesting as much as I can. The work is not to find the acorns, the work is to stop listening to people who say that they are not there when they are.