Power of Tiny Progress

It takes courage to keep doing the same thing every time while waiting to get the right result. It does mean that you may not hit your goal every time, but at least, there is an improvement, which need not be massive.

Some Accolades

At this stage of your life, you can point to more than enough milestones. I mean positive or productive things you have accomplished if you can give yourself some positive assessments. They may appear insignificant when you started the process but the aftermath are some of the things you see or have contributed to the little you have achieved. I call them little because you may be among those that belief they are making little or no progress. This perception is what kept many people at the same point because they never see any good thing in what they have being doing. “I never do well”, you say to yourself. Your mind is tuned off from following through. It doesn’t matter if that is your story if you do something about your supposition.

Every Effort Counts

I will ask you few questions, and I expect them to produce little to big results. Have you been enrolled in a school system before? I mean basic, higher grade or secondary or tertiary. Or have you find yourself in a vocational system or maybe apprenticeship? Ok. How did you started learning? From writing big vocabulary or adding big figures together? I don’t think so.

If as a toddler you were aware of the stages you will need to pass before learning to read and write, you are not likely to be ready to pass through the process. But then, the process started with just being in a play group where you learn to play with some gadgets, maybe you also learn to sing, recite some ryhmes, among other things. At a later time, you were learning to hold your pen, do some scratch, or write at random. Then, drawing lines of different types and joining them together to form alphabets. You later started bringing letters together to generate words, and then forming sentences. That’s how you grow to reach the present level.

The steps seem trivial, but even nature and other phenomenon follow suit. When drops of water drop inside the bucket, an impatient folk cannot wait to see it full. When he eventually get distracted by other things to attend to, he got a result that left him with great amasement. The bucket is full. I know you must have experience this or the like, at one time or the other.

Necessities

Do you ever think about the number of years you spent at the basic school level? I am sure it doesn’t take you less than five years to learn to write very well. Each of the years have at least two terms. Each term or semesters might probably be in two parts between you have mid-break. After some periods of learning, your progresses were evaluated with tests aside class works and assignments before the terminal examinations. It is as breadth taking as that. Maybe you complained during the process, but you eventually finished.

You can relate that to making progress in your business, profession and other life’s endeavour. If you don’t give up soon and you’re as consistent as you were during those moments, you will surely see remarkable progress. It takes courage to keep doing the same thing every time while waiting to get the right result. It does mean that you may not hit your goal every time, but at least, there is an improvement, which need not be massive. From the repetitions come experience and then, mastery. That is why as a pupil in kingdagartin, you were asked to write the same letter or figure for several days before moving to the next.

Guiding principles

By drawing on the under listed principles, you will be able to make the best use of your tiny progresses.

Start small, and work from the known.
Stay guided at least to certain level, but every time. Someone somewhere must have passed the stage you are. Rely on his experience to stay relevant.

Remain focus. There are many side attractions while on the journey of life.

Each failure or setbacks you have are similar to those you experienced in your tests and examinations in school. If you do everything possible to pass and complete the program, you can do same now.

One thing at a time. Why will you try to learn two skills at the same time when in the past it has never worked for you.

Mastery of one and its aspects. You can diversify but be successful with the current before navigating to other things.

Reward yourself when you’re doing well at least you will get rewarded as the best if you are in school.

There is vacation in the school system, you can do same. Have some rest.

Maintain discipline, indulgence is a friend of setback, if at all you do not fail.
Document your tiny wins. They are sources of motivation.

Final note

If driving a car appears too big for you, then open the door today, enter the car tomorrow, place your hands and legs where they are supposed to be the following day. Put on the ignition another day. At the end of a week, you should be able move the car from it original position. You are making progress, you will see your progresses as you make progress.