Always Something

“All or nothing rarely gets us all — it usually gets us nothing.”

That line from my recent reading stuck with me.

We chase perfection so often.
The perfect week. The perfect plan. The perfect version of ourselves.

And when we fall short — even once — we spiral.
We tell ourselves we’ll start again Monday.
We let one small slip erase all the effort that came before it.

But maybe that’s where we get it wrong.

Somewhere along the way, we started treating progress like a highlight reel — something to capture and show off when everything goes right.
But that’s not how it really works.
Progress isn’t clean, linear, or aesthetic.
It’s not built like your social media feed, where every moment is filtered and perfectly timed.

Progress is built in the mess in the middle —
in the missed days, the rough patches, and the moments you show up when it’s inconvenient.

Because that’s what real consistency looks like — not flawless, but persistent.

Doing something is always better than doing nothing.
But we forget that when we get too ambitious, when we set goals that require everything to go right, and then crumble when it doesn’t.

The truth is, the likelihood of everything going perfectly is almost zero.
But the likelihood of doing something — of taking one small step forward — that’s always in our control.

And that’s where real progress lives.
In the quiet moments.
In the in-between.
In the mess in the middle.

Always something.
Always forward.

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