Always Remember: Life (and almost everything in it) isn't supposed to be linear

The most immature type of thinking is that life is linear.

You put in X amount of work and you get Y amount of results.

Just like in school.

But you are not.

You are in this imperfect society where no one thing determines the result, but a thousand of things. Any one thing has correlation with the final result, but no causation. 

And above all, it is okay to zigzag. Don't get impatient. 

I personally have to remind myself on this a lot. 

Additionally, results don't come in fixed time slots periodically. They come in unexpectedly, more often than not. Having expectations will throw you off balance.

The last thing I want to put it out there - something controversial to an extent - is that you should NOT give your 100%, or what them boys like to say, going ALL-IN. 

Because the other side of the "ALL-IN" coin is expecting great things to happen. But life doesn't care if you've given 100% or 5%; it's not about you.

So always give 70%, and expect 5%. This is the only way to keep you going for a long time, even without any visible result.

Nothing makes sense, for a long time, until it does. 

Until then, keep at it.