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"Slow progress also counts!!!"

"You don't have to be better than anyone but your past self!!!"

"You just have to do better than you did yesterday!!!"

"You don't have to make big progress, any progress counts!!!"

No actually you don't have to stay on a completely linear upwards journey towards consistent greatness to succeed at recovery. It's great when you can take steps forward and it's great when you realize you're more capable than you were in the past, but every single day of your recovery doesn't have to come with a new, visible milestone because improving isn't a linear journey. So the only thing you HAVE to do to "stay on track" with your recovery is to stay alive

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Listen to me: You get good at things by being bad at them. You learn by failing. You gain competency and a sense of mastery by failing at something many times and in many interesting ways.

The sooner you are able to laugh at your own failures, to enjoy the process of messing up, the easier life will be. Because you'll no longer be afraid of learning.

And once you're no longer afraid of failing, you can learn anything.

i wish it were as easy as it sounds

And that's the thing of it, isn't it? Failing and accepting a failure is itself a skill.

And it can be very hard to learn, especially if you come from a family where a failure is a sign that you are a failure instead of a sign that you are learning.

You're going to fail at failing well. There are going to be times when it hurts, times when your brain is telling you that you should just give up and you'll never get it. Times when a failure is going to frustrate you to no end.

And you can still learn to fail well. You can learn to see it as a sign that you're learning, you can learn to give a little chuckle and say to yourself, well, everyone screws up sometimes, I'm just learning.

It is not easy, but it is important.

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