A Turtle Year

Sorry, A What?

Someone in a conversation recently was talking about slow progress and said, "...like I don't know, a turtle year. Not sure if that's even a thing..."

It is now, a few of us really liked it.

Shuffling Ahead

This kind of ties into some of the other recent notes, like Perfect is the Enemy of Good Enough (and the alternate title for it). I used to think that I had to make a "big move" to get any progress, whether in relationships or at work or in school. There had to be a leap or something that would "obviously" cause an impact, or it wouldn't count.

As I've gotten older, written a lot in various PKM options, and many years of therapy, I finally settled back from that and dropped a lot of the urgency where there doesn't need to be any. Yes it still pops into my head from time to time, I recognize that and remember that I see small changes as lasting changes.

Finding patience helps, and that ties into the title. Sometimes it feels like it takes a turtle year to see any changes, and sometimes that's true. I'd rather have it that way instead of how I was, trying to rocket out of wherever I was into something else.