You are [BLANK] years away from your breakthrough! Pt. 1
'Years away'
(This is a two-part message. Lol nice.)
What?! 4 more years until this business booms?
What?! 5 more years taking up medicine in med school?
What?! 6 more years until I can go abroad and hang with my friends?
Yes. Yes. And, yes. It obviously takes time and effort. I mean, isn't this what you wanted?
"Yeah, but like I want to get there as soon as possible."
So, basically instant success.
There is no such thing as instant success. When you start taking up judo/jiu-jitsu (a kind of Brazilian martial art) classes, you don't become the master instantly. You are the student starting on the white belt. And when the master sees your improvement along time, you become a yellow belt, and soon enough you get your stripes to go into green belt, and so on until the black belts.
When you commute for the first time, it is a scary thought "what if I get lost?" We've all been there and just as long as you know the destination, you'll be fine. You might ride the wrong jeepneys, take the wrong turns, but once you arrive at your destination, you get this sense of accomplishment. Soon enough, you'll love commuting. You know the ins and outs of the neighborhood and then the city's.
Muscle memory is doing the same thing over and over again until you're used to doing that exact thing. And when you think about it, this is one of the most fun stage(s) of your life. Where you're constantly learning new things, getting the joy out the little victories, and also honing those skills to be even sharper and more exact. What's important is you focus on what's at hand and honestly. Love. The. Process.
A harvest doesn't happen when you're still in the planting stage. Respect your limitations and realize you have a long way to go, but that's okay.
Humble yourself, you're still growing. No matter what, you are still.