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Every “Great Leap Forward” in progress or personal success is an illusion, it’s simply the eventual reveal of thousands of tiny steps forward.

Just take a tiny step today,

and another tomorrow,

and another the day after that.

You may not see the progress at first, but it will eventually be the footing on which that great leap shows itself to you.

Some mental frames for the coming year:

• Stay the course.

• Commit yourself to the “why,” but not the “how.”

• Don’t worry about the size of your progress, only about making a little progress every day.

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PaddleManJoe 1y ago

I see this concept in everything. Especially weight lifting. The big 405 squat PR is just a display of the strength you have built. The work to get there is the months(sometimes years) of carefully programming your training and stuffing your face with protein.

Zach 1y ago

This is so true. I’m starting to experience a “great leap forward“ but it doesn’t feel that way to me. It feels like a lot of work in a long time coming.

I’ve been a “entrepreneur“ for the past 10 years, and I’ve had a lot of failures and non-financial successes.

Finally, all those lessons learned are just starting to create financial success too. It’s exciting and feels like an inflection point, but if that’s all you saw…

Similar thing with my health as well, but it’s not quite so dramatic more like a steady step-by-step.

Hypno | seedkeys.xyz 1y ago

Agreed. What made me realize that is doing Lego sets of thousands of pieces, and puzzles. Sometimes you can't see any progress on a daily basis. But at one point you manage to complete the set. Just by persevering. Piece by piece.