Baby Steps
Baby Steps That’s the term we use to describe incremental progress, and just doing a little to keep moving forward. Baby steps. “Just take tiny pieces at a time, work through the process, don’t get overwhelmed. Small progress is progress, nonetheless.” Enough baby steps, and you can get anywhere. That’s all true, and good. But one of the key factors we so often miss (in so many things) is perspective. Sure, at the point where you can grasp the concept, “baby steps” are tiny and seem insignificant. Sure, our minds tell us, I understand that if I just take the sum of all those “baby steps,” I know I can trace real distance in progression. It’s just that those tiny steps can become so tedious, and seem so insignificant in the moment as to wear down even the most stalwart dedication into frustration, and sometimes even apathy. Babies aren’t worn down by “baby steps.” Each step is a lurch of experimentation, faith, innocence, determination, fear, exci...