Progress can occur in either a huge lurching jump or incremental steps at a time. The best in my opinion, is the steady drumbeat that happens when you advance step by step and day after day.

That's what surprised me when I looked at the hivestats.io graph of my account. A steady diagonal line stretching up and to the right from the lower left, to the upper right. This is the result of me following the guidelines over at Hivebuzz in order to earn those happy weekly powerup badges.

Just 1 HIVE per day powered up daily, helps to form that beautiful line of progress on that hivestats.io graph. In short, that;s what success looks like.

When I first started, it had been ages since I was able to publish a post on occasion 7 days in a row. So what I decided to do was to look no further ahead than the post I had planned (or was working on) today, in order to maintain my focus over the medium-term.

This attempt also brought back memories of when I bought my first stock in an electric utility. This one had a DRIP or a Dividend ReInvestment Plan. I was able to see over time my quarterly dividend payments reinvested into more fractional shares of this growing company.

The hardest thing early on, was simply to get started. Once that bridge is crossed, then we're off to the races!

It's like that with almost every endeavor in life.

Putting the "Beat" in Beatles

I was reading about the life of former Beatle Pete Best (yes friends, there are actually 3 living ex-Beatles among us), and how the group had to slog through those long performances while they were "paying their dues" in Germany.

John, Paul, George and... Pete, would play for hours trying to earn what little coin that they could. But it was those months of deprivation where the not-quite starving artists learned to cut their teeth as musicians.

Fast forward to their seminal appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in early 1964 when the group conquered America, and their "overnight success" was the direct result of them becoming a tight band, in a dimly lit little German club.

So the next time you're going through it, please keep that in mind and continue putting one foot in front of another. And at some point, you'll step out of that dues paying stage, and finally enjoy the success that is your "due." :)