Hey there,
It’s me. Again. And this letter is going to be on growth. For some reason, there has been quite a lot of transformation trends. I mean, those trends where they go “Give me 3 years” or “Then and now” and yes, yours truly happened to participate in some.
I’ve been getting more serious with everything I’m doing recently and doing those trends actually helped me see how much change I’ve gone through and how much growth has happened with me and I consider it timely because I had been beating myself up a lot recently because of my slow progress. It felt like I was doing so much but I had just so little to show for it and believe me, it was rather exhausting and those videos did encourage me, I won’t lie.
You see, we often race against time that we fail to see how much we’ve achieved. We hit a milestone and have another one to reach so we don’t even dwell on what we’ve done even though it’s not so little but because there are greater milestones to reach but I’ll love to put it out that:
1. There would always be greater milestones to achieve.
No matter how much you do, someone else has or would do something greater so if you spend your life chasing greater milestones, you miss your growth and you don’t appreciate it because you’re too busy trying to be better. Which isn’t a bad thing until it’s all you’re about that you don’t appreciate the little good things that happen with your passing moments in life.
2. You need to acknowledge and appreciate yourself for how much you’re going. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself that would hurt you. I recently was in a meeting of Cowrywise ambassadors and some pretty girl had said something that stuck with me. “Don’t put unnecessary pressure on yourself. Try to do stuff with yourself but don’t pressure yourself unnecessarily and don’t be lax and doing nothing either.”
3. It is okay to have slow progress or not so glaringly obvious progress made. As long as you know for sure that you at the moment isn’t at the same place you were sometime back, it’s just perfectly okay. Growth is a beautiful thing to experience and it’s even more beautiful when you acknowledge it.
It could be massive or little. It could be you acing an exam to get scholarship to school abroad or as simple as building a consistent daily devotion routine. Either way, appreciate yourself for making progress.
Don’t ever think you aren’t worthy because you aren’t doing anything out of the world. Let your growth happen to you and don’t rush it. Let life work its magic on you.
I hope this encourages you to appreciate yourself and acknowledge your progress more.
Until the next time,
Love and warm wishes,
Precious.
