Time is essential.
3 months is a season.
6 months should give you results.
After spending 180 days (half a year) of your life on something (or with someone) you should be checking for results or moving on.
– Pope
Dangers of a Hedged Life
This is the nature of being, to hedge, to protect, to play safe. Or to think we are playing safe by not playing at all.
Yet in my experience, real opportunities lie in walking away from the sources of your darkness, from what is not working.