How You Begin Will Not Dictate Where You Go
9.8.2008
Do you have a dream? How about a big dream? The kind that make your palms sweat and taste buds salivate. Does the bigness scare you? Does it keep you stuck? Sometimes our dreams or goals seem so far away, so incredibly far away, that we do nothing. We are immobilized by the enormity of it all. The vastness of space between where we are and where we want to be paralyzes us.
I know. I have been there and I am there now. My friend Sophia provided some words of wisdom. She said, “Where you begin will not dictate how far you will go." Where you begin....where you begin...I GOT in that moment that I had had it all wrong. I thought that the bigness of my actions had to match the bigness of my dreams. And in my quest for achieving the “perfect” starting point, I started nothing. “Just begin,” she said, “and everything will fall into place.” The author Sark describes micromovements as tiny steps that you take towards completions in your life. And so I choose to take a step, no matter how small and imperfect, and be someone who lives her dreams instead of simply talking about them.
- Tiny steps lead to the completion of big dreams.
- There is perfection in imperfection.
- Procrastination does not serve the world.
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