This is another way to talk about the compound effect.

People are always being critical and envious when it appears someone became a big success “overnight”. What they don’t realize is that the success didn’t happen that way. Many many hours of work have gone into whatever they achieved.

But more importantly, this is a key thing for each of us to remember when it seems things aren’t moving forward. Just keep at it. Each day that you work toward your goal, something happens. There’s progress. But you may not see it and even worse, you may not see it for quite awhile.

If you keep working, though, one day you’ll see the results of that effort. Your first reaction may be that it’s a fluke but it isn’t. It means that all you’ve been doing has actually been having an effect. The more you keep going, the more the effect will show up. There may be plateaus. Realize that that’s exactly what they are, plateaus. The body is integrating all the effort and there will be another peak soon.

Just keep doing what you’re doing. You will get there!