Tonight, one of my Everquest 2 characters achieved 450 adorning, the maximum skill level currently possible for the adorning tradeskill. I also spent only about 15 minutes in the game tonight, but not because I somehow managed to gain all 450 points in one night. Adorning is actually a very time consuming skill to raise, particularly dreadful before adorning writs were available and players had to gather their own materials. Even with the writs, it is time consuming since a character can only get one writ per day and each writ only allows 11 attempts. It is also highly unlikely to get a skill point for all 11 attempts.
This character built adorning entirely by writs at maybe about seven or eight points a day at most, and I didn’t play the game every day, so one could imagine how many weeks it took me to get up to 450. It seemed like an almost insurmountable task when starting out at nearly zero points, but I just did a little bit on most days that I decided to play, even if only for 5, 15, or 20 minutes, and tonight…this character is finally at maximum skill level in adorning!
Big deal, it’s just a game, right? Well yes and no. Yes, Everquest 2 is a game, and adorning isn’t all that important outside of the game, but there’s a lesson here that can apply anywhere.
Think of some of the larger, unfinished projects in your home, school, or work. Sometimes these projects can seem insurmountable if you try to take them on all at once. They’re just too large, too impossible, too overwhelming!
But what if you made just a tiny bit of progress on one of these projects each day? You got rid of one piece of worn clothing in your overstuffed closet, filed or shredded just one sheet of the papers piled up on your desk, or wrote one small paragraph of your term paper? It may not seem like much at first. For a few days, it may even seem like you’ve accomplished nothing. The closet still looks messy. The desk is still overflowing with papers. You’re nowhere near finishing the term paper.
Impossible, right?
Not so! You’ve made progress. You are one item of clothing, piece of paper, or paragraph closer to your goal.
If you keep chipping away at it, little by little, you will eventually notice changes. They will be small at first, but they’ll become more and more noticeable until finally that closet is decluttered and organized, the desk is clear, and the term paper complete. Best of all, it only took just a few short moments each day. You did not have to spend your entire weekend emergency cleaning for company, or pulling a couple of all nighters to get that paper done before the deadline.
With a little persistence, you can achieve great things in just five to fifteen minutes.
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