Following Progress

How do you track your progress in things? I, for example, am a bit of a nester and can be followed around a house or other locations by looking for the little piles of books from place to place...until you find me and the book I'm reading at that moment.

Progress like that is easy to track and in that particular case kind of funny. However, sometimes it is harder to see where the progress lies. There are those who give up on weight loss because it seems to them that they aren't changing in any way. What about people who are trying to give up an addiction and feel the same strength of craving every day? Progress in those situations and many more can seem so very hard to track.

I have never been someone who enjoyed journalling - just not my thing. Yet it was continually suggested to me as a way to work through issues. So I thought I'd try it and ya know it sort of worked. I don't journal regularly, only when the problem is ongoing or weighing particularly heavy on my heart. A benefit to journalling is that I can go back over the previous entries and I can read the progress - how the problems have changed or been resolved and so on. It may seem like there are always challenges, well, okay, there actually are always challenges but it's nice to see the progress too and to know that they are changing and progressing.