What’s Really Happening When Progress Feels Slow

Have you heard about the curious growth of the bamboo plant?

Bamboo trees can take 3+ years to get established.

That’s 3 years of tending to them, watering them, and nurturing them, before anything even appears out of the ground.

Then, as if by magic, they shoot out of the ground — some species growing 35 inches in height per day.

But it isn’t magic. It’s the way bamboo grows. There’s a this long period where nothing seems to be happening, and then everything appears to happen all at once. In reality, progress was being made all along the way, it just wasn’t yet visible or tangible to the naked eye. Moreover, all of that time — before the seeds have even sprouted — is critical to the long-term growth and health of the plant.

Remember that next time you feel lost in the misery of your own personal or professional goal that you’ve set out to achieve and feel like it’s “taking forever.”

There’s always a point where it feels like nothing’s happening. You can’t see what’s growing under the surface.

But things are growing, under the surface, because you’re there consistently tending, watering, and nurturing.

And then will come a point where things move really fast, and it’ll all feel like magic.

But really, you created that result, by choosing to keep going, to keep believing, to keep showing up and to keep nurturing what matters to you.

When it feels like nothing’s happening, remember all that you can’t see.

And what will grow exponentially, when the exact time is right, because you showed up today?

Savanna Symons
Life & Confidence Coach

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