Being a “Work in Progress” is Actually a Good Thing, Here’s Why

Welcome to the self-improvement club

Brandon Bell
6 min readOct 3, 2020
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Doing the same thing every single day can get exhausting.

We tend to shake up or lives every now and then but it’s not enough.

Something always feels like it’s missing, are we really doing the right thing?

Life starts to become repetitive when trying to improve ourselves. It usually takes us a long time to build in more productive routines in our lives. Or it can get tiring when working on our dreams every day and not seeing any results.

Whenever we talk to our friends we describe ourselves as a “work in progress.” Letting them know that we are trying to become better people but it’s taking us longer than we expected.

Self-improvement is persuasive, it’s crazy to think that hearing a few words from a motivational speaker or an audiobook can have the ability to change our lives instantly when in reality it only changes for that specific moment.

If you’re constantly working on yourself for the better then you shouldn’t be ashamed of calling yourself a “work in progress,” for the rest of the article we’ll refer to this term as WIP.

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Brandon Bell

A young adult who’s writing is geared towards self-improvement and self care. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”