Episode Details

This episode is all about when you feel like you’re doing EVERYTHING, but somehow it feels like you’re doing nothing.

This happens in dance all the time, especially when you’re learning something hard or trying to achieve a new skill. It might look like you don’t have it yet. You didn’t get the move. You didn’t memorize all the choreography. So it feels like nothing happened.

You’re working on SO many things.

You’re getting the building blocks. You’re making corrections. You’re remembering more than you did last time. You’re figuring out what doesn’t work. All of that is progress, it just doesn’t have that satisfying “I DID IT” moment yet because you’re not done.

I talk about how I’ve been feeling this way with a bunch of projects I’m working on too. I sit down to work on something and I don’t finish the whole thing, so I move on feeling like I didn’t really get anything done. But I DID. The project moved forward. There was progress. It’s just harder to see when there isn’t a finished product to show for it yet.

And I talk about finally getting my kip in gymnastics. One day, I finally did it. But I didn’t magically learn a kip that day. I had already been building all of the skills I needed. Every attempt, every correction and every time I didn’t get it was giving me more information until eventually all of those pieces came together and I got it.

Sometimes progress is happening way before you have anything to show for it.

Just because you haven’t gotten to the “I DID IT” part yet doesn’t mean you’re doing nothing.

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