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A hand-drawn chart on notebook paper titled 'It's Okay If your PROGRESS LOOKS Like This'. It depicts a non-linear line graph illustrating personal growth with ups, downs, learning, and recovery, emphasizing that progress is rarely a straight line.
🫶Progress not Perfection🫶
Many people believe growth should look like a straight line: constant improvement, strong motivation, and no setbacks, but personal growth rarely works that way. In reality, progress often looks like ups, downs, setbacks, lessons, and recovery. You might: • Start strong • Hit a setback • L
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A woman in a maroon sports bra and grey shorts stands against a grey wall, embodying the article's theme of "ditching the 'All-or-Nothing' mentality" for progress over perfection.
A woman smiles while sitting on a gym machine, illustrating the principle that "something is better than nothing" in fitness, even a short workout.
A woman performs a dumbbell squat in a gym, demonstrating the focus on "building a habit, not chasing perfection" for sustainable fitness progress.
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A social media post by Duke @Dukelhenacho on a dark background, advising to build sustainable habits through gradual progression. The text suggests focusing on small steps like 0 to 10, then 10 to 20, instead of going from 0 to 100 directly. A Lemon8 watermark is visible at the bottom.
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