To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?," you can say, "Sorry, got these sacks."
You are definitely improving. But for some reason our brains seem to improve by going through long periods where it feels like our efforts are coming to nothing, often we even get worse. But if you keep going anyway, one day you realize you have improved greatly and you didn't even notice it happening. Keep at it you got this.
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