Thursday, February 15, 2024

Incremental progress

You can’t learn a new language overnight. But you can learn two or three new words each day.

You can’t jump instantly over a 300-foot hill. Yet you can walk up one side and down the other without too much trouble.

Everything you seek to do is going to require some effort over time. When you take the necessary time, and make the appropriate effort, just about anything is possible.

It’s not usually going to be quick or easy, maybe not particularly simple. Still, with sufficient persistence, you can work your way from where you are to where you wish to be.

In doing so, you’re likely to face more challenges than some people would face, and probably less than others. Rather than wasting your time obsessing over the unfairness of that reality, put your energy into the achievement itself, every chance you get.

Each moment is an opportunity for incremental progress. Make wise use of all those opportunities that continually arrive.

— Ralph Marston

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