SLOW growing hair!!

What`s everyone`s opinion about what to do to be patient and stay focused while growing hair out? My hair is slightly damaged and just at the top of my shoulders. I haven`t really had it past shoulder length in a few years. I`m too impatient. I get mad at go have it chopped off. After I had it cut into a "meg ryan" style, I wore those 3/4 wigs or full wigs just for fun. I also though about extensions. My goal is to repair the damage (i.e. not blow drying, curling iron, hair spray, etc.) with regular conditioning treatments while growing it long. I really don`t want to become impatient again and cut it. For me, wigs worked good last time, but my mother hates them. She thinks they don`t look "natural", but when she sees them on a celebrity she likes it....? What should I do?

I don`t have any good advice, but I`m glad you posted because that is exactly how I feel right now. My hair is just trying to peak beyond my shoulder and I`ve been growing it since the end of October (from a chin length hack job). The advice to measure once a month is good - it will encourage you. I have measured my hair on the 9th of every month. and it seems to be growing about 1 inch per month. I`ve tried lots of star`s styles. No matter what I cut it like, it`s still me and not Meg Ryan or Julia Roberts - only sometimes it`s me with a bad hair-do! Right now I`m trying to think back to my childhood, when my hair was longer because I didn`t think about it - or how I looked, for that matter. I remember as a child I couldn`t match my clothes, and couldn`t care less because I was too busy having fun and thinking about other things. How did I get so caught up in myself as an adult? Media/Advertising, puberty, I don`t know. Hang in there, be patient, and try to concentrate on other things, while your hair is growing. I guess that`s the only advice I can say.