Well, hello there. It's Morgan Harper Nichols here and welcome to part two of a series that I'm doing on what to do when encouraging words feel cliche.

So this is a part of an illustrated series that I did and I shared it on social media and I will put it in the show

notes if you would like to see it where I put two frames side by side and I showed what a

phrase sounds like and then what it feels like. So yesterday I talked about embracing the process

what it sounds like versus what it feels like.

And today I'm going to be unpacking the phrase small progress is still progress,

what it sounds like versus what it feels like.

Now, as I mentioned yesterday, I very intentionally tried to do these episodes in a way that

you don't have to see the image at all. So if you've never seen it or you end up not seeing

the image that I'm talking about, my hope is that you can still connect with this idea of

trying to figure out what to do when we hear something

that intellectually, it makes sense to us. We can see its significance or value. However, in the

moment, it's our response might just be met. It doesn't really apply to me today or I can't really figure out

how that's applicable in my life. So as I mentioned, what I'm talking about today specifically is this

phrase, small progress is still progress. This is something that has shown up in a lot of my work. And I

write about this concept quite a bit because it's something that I've had to learn and am still

learning in my life. So as I mentioned, there are two frames. And this first frame of what it sounds like,

what small progress is still progress,

I illustrated it as like a stick figure just climbing

a set of stairs.

And one thing that's very specific about this image

that I illustrated was each stair, each step that the stick figure is

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