Who Says Progressing Is NOT Good?

Who Says Progressing Is NOT Good?

Many of us [and that includes me [sometime in my past]] have this misconceptual thing with regard PROGRESS because for many of us, it's COMPLETION that matters, and no less than that. Who Says Progressing Is NOT Good?  True, PROGRESSING might NOT give you that feeling of having done OR completed a task because, again [for many of us], a task that is IN PROGRESS is indeed called PROGRESS but it's NOT COMPLETE.  Hey dude, even if it's for only 1%, you're still PROGRESSING.  Truth is, PROGRESS doesn't have to be a linear line from bottom to top.  In your social media account, it DOESN'T have to be 10 followers then to 100 followers next week and then 1,000 followers next month.  In most cases, it DOESN'T work that way📗📙📘

Reality needs to sink in to us that, like in social media, your PROGRESS could be ZERO [as in ZERO followers] this month, next month and then next next month, you're still staring at ZERO followers until in the 4th OR 5th month, you gain 5 to 10 followers.  That's PROGRESS you gained dude!  Well, we are misconceptualized by the word 'COMPLETING' rather than focusing on PROGRESS.  This leads us to be misguidedly embracing that RESULTS matter [and NOT PROGRESS?]!  This leads us to never feel satisfied with WHAT we do and end up doing nothing in the future.  This explains WHY many people fail to be consistent without realizing WHY.  True, feeling COMPLETE is that important BUT feeling COMPLETE DOESN'T have to be something big like finishing a book today💥💥💥

If you're writing a book, you DON'T have to write 1,500 words every day IF you still AREN'T capable of doing that on a more consistent manner.  This is WHY, sometime back, I became aware of WHY we have problems with procrastination and taking action.  It's because we CAN'T see ahead.  It's just too big of WHAT we need to face and start, WHICH ends up being lazy enough to take action.  Since that time I myself did wake up to this realization, I never cease to constantly remind myself the importance of starting small be in reading, writing any anything else I will endeavor to start.  And this reminds me of a quotable quote from Mark Twain who says NOTHING will PROGRESS unless and until you start it off.  Oh Oh Oh, that hits the nail right on its head!!!

This brings us to the power of STARTING SMALL.  To build our reading habits, start with one sentence.  Building our writing habits starts with writing one sentence.  Building exercise habits starts with preparing your shoes.  When I started with my blogging, I gave myself a target to complete 1 blog per week, and that increased to like 2 to 3 blogs a week till after a year, it progressed to 1 blog daily.  That gave me a week's buffer in case I missed out some days due to my other deliverables.  Today, unless my plate is overflowing, I'm averaging 2 to 3 blogs per day.  WHEN I started my exercise habits, I targeted 15 to 20 minutes walking translating to 2,000 steps.  Today, in most days [except WHEN rain spoils out my schedule], I would complete anywhere between 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day💦💦💦

Our takeaway:  The key to starting small is supposed to be easy and repeatable.  Then, WHEN we humbly enough start small, we can start feeling complete.  We start to WIN daily tasks and start to enjoy the progress even more.  Daily WINS are building your confidence to take another task, then another task, then another task.  Eventually, you start to work on a bigger task and strengthen your consistency.  YES YES yohhh, STARTING SMALL is a 'cheating path'.  WHO SAYS PROGRESSING IS NOT GOOD???