Starting anything new is challenging. The first few months are tough. It seems like you’re learning nothing. You’ve been trying to learn and nothing seems to be helping. This is the point when most people will give up. 

Don’t. Push through these first few months. Once you get beyond this point, that’s when the real fun begins. You start to really learn and retain the information. 

Up until this point it’s most likely that you’ve been trying every strategy to get better. 

The reason why so many people quit in the beginning is because it’s not fun. It’s not fun to be bad at something. It’s not fun to not know anything about a particular subject. It feels like you’re working instead of learning.

Once you begin to have fun and you see yourself progressing, there’s nothing stopping you. 

You’ll push yourself harder than you ever have before to learn more. You want to keep getting better, learning more, and mastering the subject. 

The grind may suck in the beginning but push through this. Put in work consistently even if you dread it. It’s necessary. Any amount matters.

Once you hit that point where you want to give up, it seems to also be the point where you begin to grasp the subject. You start to realize that you are learning a great deal. 

That’s exciting! It motivates you to keep pushing forward. It’s an unbelievable feeling. 

When you’re first starting out, set the bar low. If you set the bar so low, let’s say five minutes a day, and do this on a consistent basis, something magical begins to happen. 

You set the bar low, you accomplish some work, you begin to learn more and more, and then you start working longer each day on the project.

Five minutes seems too easy. Then you start doing ten minutes. Then twenty five minutes. Before you know it, your five minutes a day turned into one hour a day and you’re doing it everyday. 

Eventually all that work you put in will pay off. It’s compounding interest. 

Don’t give up in the beginning when everything seems lost and hard. Everyone started at square one. Push through the these tough times and consistently work everyday. 

It will pay off.