My symbol for progress is the turtle. It came to me the other day. Ponder: what is the task, but to take a few steps every day in the direction of your dreams? I came up with a motto perhaps ten years ago: Embrace the Small; Nurture the Slow. I still believe this.
Oh, as a turtle I too have slept. But for every sleeping there is an awakening. And fierce weather does make a difference. One cannot ask too much of a turtle: merely movement when it is possible, and security when it is not.
But believe in life’s little tanks.