HOPE! I feed on hope! Who doesn’t?

To err is human and to hope is human too!!
My best friend and mentor, Muhammad Refayet Chowdhury who I call “Mr Hope” taught me a lot about hope in practice by demonstrating it in his personal and professional life. He also taught me about the importance of focusing on “Progress” and to avoid “Perfectionism” (which I used to, but thankfully which I got over finally and now only focus on making “Progress”!).
But what if “Progress” gets halted as well and there seems to be no progress, despite your consistent efforts?

Well don’t lose hope as I have good news for you, thanks to the most-fascinating discovery of James Clear, revealed in his best-seller, Atomic Habits:
“We often expect progress to be linear. At the very least, we hope it will come quickly. In reality, the results of our efforts are often delayed. It is not until months or years later that we realize the true value of the previous work we have done. This can result in a “valley of disappointment” (refer to the enclosed image) where people feel discouraged after putting in weeks or months of hard work without experiencing any results. However, this work was not wasted. It was simply being stored. It is not until much later that the full value of previous efforts is revealed.”
What progress is really like, explained by James Clear:
“Imagine that you have an ice cube sitting on the table in front of you. The room is cold and you can see your breath. It is currently twenty five degrees. Ever so slowly, the room begins to heat up.
Twenty-six degrees.
Twenty-seven.
Twenty-eight.
The ice cube is still sitting on the table in front of you.
Twenty-nine degree.
Thirty.
Thirty-one.
Still, nothing has happened.
Then, thirty-two degrees. The ice begins to melt. A one-degree shift, seemingly no different from the temperature increase before it, has unlocked a huge change.
Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change. This pattern shows up everywhere. Cancer spends 80 percent of its life undetectable, then takes over the body in months. Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks. Similarly, habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold and unlock a new level of performance. In the early and middle stages of a quest there is often a Valley of Disappointment. You expect to make progress in a linear fashion and it’s frustrating how ineffective changes can seem during the first days, weeks and even months.”
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