Progress is not linear

11 January 2022

Hi read champs.. it’s a good day .. I want to thank everyone who kept commenting and upvoting my articles for the past few days.I am so grateful for each and every one of you. Your love and support means the world to me. I have already failed at my regular streak of publishing at least one article per day because I was really tired from school work yesterday plus I had a very notorious headache .. but that doesn’t mean I have stopped progressing or learning as a writer on this platform it just means I need to settle down, refuel my inspiration and come back with more amazing write-ups .. progress is not linear.

Often times in life we find that we fall-backward or back slide in trying to achieve our goals. This is because the world has made an average person to think that once he or she looses his or her way once then that automatically means that such person has lost every progress they have ever made in life.People need go understand that progress is not linear.

Take for example a person who is on a diet journey to loose weight. You have been going at it for weeks ,months if not years, making progress loosing that fat and then suddenly you lost focus of your general goal for a day or two that doesn’t mean you have stopped making progress .. it just simply means you have to sit back refuel your motivation and get on the road again.

Understand that you will loose your will, somedays you would be too tired to pick yourself up and that is perfectly fine, that is just how life works. Stop thinking that the only way to success is a straight line without no bumps or curves, life will teach you different if you think this way.

Most times When people try their best and fail at life’s challenges they feel like they have lost everything, they quickly forget how much each challenge they face daily change their life and shaped them for the better. The truth is these kind of progress are hard to see or notice it takes a while to surface but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

Take for example a man climbing a mountain, sometimes he stops for water or food or even to rest, in some situations he even has to climb down from one part of the mountain so as to move further up, that is progress maybe slow but for sure it is progress.

I know a lot of people battling addiction. They would love to stop and just be better at once but we all know that is impossible. Addiction is a very strong force and even when one might think that they are finally getting over it, a simple thing can trigger it back and even make it worse. In such situations don’t beat yourself up, relapse would happen, hard time will come, one just have to believe that all the progress and hard work you have made up until that moment hasn’t gone to waste. Get back up and go again always remember progress is not linear.

Know this, you are product of your past experience and your future expectations, so let bad experience come we would learn from them and become better, let relapse come we would understand that we are human get up again and keep fighting. The journey of a thousand mile begins with a step, you might stop sometimes because you feel tired and frustrated but don’t stop keep going, even when you don’t walk in a straight line keep going, the goal is the goal it doesn’t have to be perfect it just has to be effective.

Thank you all .. stay safe..

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