reminder: gradually, then all at once.

I wrote this quote on the first page of my planner for this year:

“How did you accomplish that? Same as everything else. Gradually, then all at once.” – James Clear.

(I also wrote about it earlier. Whatever. It still applies now.)

I’ve found it to be soothing, both to help me have patience when the small steps I’m taking seem so very, very small, and also to know that when the proverbial chickens come to roost, well, they actually will. Perhaps, all at once.

I’ve experienced this dynamic on a number of occasions … waiting around for something to happen, to finish a project, for the scale to move, the bank balance to change, the check to come, the results.

In other words, what happens in the middle.

It seems that I’m geared toward ending—I want to finish things, accomplish them, see a change.

But I need to remember that change is gradual. And then it happens all at once.