It is 2024 now; ten years ago was 2014, and ten years from now it will be 2034. For me personally, when I look at 2014, I see it as if it were recent days (how can we be in 2024 now!!! Time really runs fast). Something different comes when I look at 2034; it is far, and it will take a long time to reach there. To put my ambitions to be accomplished in 2034, I would normally say that is far too long; I can't even wait for tomorrow, now you tell me 2034. But the truth is, even when it reaches 2034, 2024 will be perceived as if it were yesterday, like the last two weeks.
What I have come to realize is that time continues on its course, whether you like it or not, counting seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. Every day, it keeps moving forward with a constant pace, however you perceive it.
But in some aspects of our lives (what we are doing), we are not moving forward every day; we have stopped somewhere in the past time and stacked there. We are wondering, “Man, if I was doing that thing since that time, I would have reached somewhere far by now,” but time has already moved ahead of us.
Speaking of this, I have been “imagining” doing certain projects for the past couple of years until now but have never tried anything, thinking myself in some kind of constraint. What if I was doing this even for just one hour every day, let's say if I was reading books every day for just 30 minutes since 2017 (at the moment I said, “I don’t have time, my time is really occupied with many things”), I could have read so many books by now. Or another example: in college, when I quit studying programming as I found it very hard and not applicable directly to the project I was working on, but recently, I have come back to it. What if I was still studying it just for a little bit every day? For sure, I could have even surpassed the level I’m in right now.
This statement that “what if I was doing that thing since then, I would have reached somewhere,” what if we restart it now, start all over again (as we messed up the last time) and try to do it again for the next months or even years. What if it will be reversed into something else, that “I managed to do it.”
You will find that in these scenarios, we are talking about some aspects of consistency for many years, making sure you do that thing every day based on that schedule, and we are sure if we did that now we would have progressed very far as we believe there would have been a continued improvement each time, which would have driven progress to the great extent we are imagining right now. You realize too the long time that has passed was enough to make you concentrate on doing the craft really well as it would have been difficult for you to do it in very short time then. Small | Effective | Every Day. As we restart now, what is bad from it? (as we couldn't before). We can still make sure this time we do the task in an optimal small quantity every day (or in a scheduled time), you don’t have to finish it all today just make sure you do it again tomorrow too, you do it every day, and each time you do the act very effectively, making sure there is an improvement every day. I guess we will be here again in the next years observing the things which we would have imagined as we were saying “what if I did it since then, even for just a small amount every day, I would have reached somewhere very far.” You find it time doesn't wait for us, and so is the progress we aspire to reach. What if we exploit this chance again just by us trying “again” to do what we are supposed to do every day. And it is in a small amount, effective, every day.
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