This article is written by Ramanuj Mukherjee, CEO, LawSikho.

At 25, I was in a big hurry. At 32, I feel like I have a long way to go, and while speed matters, I am running a marathon and not a sprint. I know the best years are ahead from now. And I can work towards it.

We are all a work in progress.

The difficult part is to find what to progress in, how to progress, how to measure if you are really progressing and to never allow the feeling that we have arrived to set in.

There is just so much to do! How much of that have we achieved?

When I think of all the things that can be done, and all the things I want to do, I feel like a pygmy. Too small. Too weak. Too little time. Too little resources.

Not enough expertise.

Sure, I am better and I keep improving every day, but while that is a blessing I still feel inadequate.

The only way I know that makes me strong is to stand solidly behind a cause that is larger than myself, that I really care about and let that guide me through.

Put in place one brick at a time. Add one more stroke of the brush to the masterpiece – expect that I am not the painter and I have no idea what it is going to look like at the end.

Giving up control has been a critical lesson. The other critical lesson is to give up being the person you have been in the past, or the person that you currently are, so that you can become something else.

Something magnificent. Something you may be able to only imagine, just partially, today.

At 18 I had no idea about the person I will become at 32. But I think the 18 year old me will be damn proud of who I have become if he could meet me today.

How would your 10 year younger version feel if he or she meets you today, over a cup of coffee? Will he or she be proud? Will he think you look much better now? Does your fierceness now tamper with more love, kindness and gratitude? Have you delivered on the promises he or she made a decade ago?

What were those promises?

And do you remember that you are a work in progress? Do you believe in your heart that you will go much, much further? Do you believe that you are destined for greatness?

I believe that. I am meant to be great. I have to be best of the world at what I do. My skills should be the stuff of legends. Anything less is a failure.

How far do you have to go?

How do you feel about yourself? Are you making progress? Are you happy with life? How do you think you are going to grow?

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