Plodding

Although success books often tout the value of a break-through strategy that permits rapid advances, most of us find that our progress, and our set-backs, are achieved incrementally.

In other words, we plod along.

Sometimes, we plod forward and other times, we plod backwards. We are more likely to notice the forward motion, of course, because that is the frustrating result of our efforts to achieve much greater results.

We need not abandon our search for a great leap forward - to borrow a line from a campaign that was neither a leap nor forward - but our main efforts should be devoted to facilitating forward plodding on the items that matter most.

How do we better arrange our daily efforts so, although major progress does not occur, important progress does?