The hardest step is the first step

I think most of us feel this way. We have a goal, a dream. We want to make a change in our lives. And yet, we don’t follow through because the first step seems like such a leap to make. Too often we get lost because, like the picture, it seems like the first step is impossible to reach.

Yet, I bet that once you take the first step along a journey of steps, in hindsight you realize the first step was the same as every other step in that it wasn’t really a leap but it was a manageable step.

These words sum up the point. Do it now, get started. Don’t allow the paralysis, the fear leave you seeing an insurmountable step, when in reality it is not insurmountable. I know this because in many areas of my life I struggled and continue to struggle with taking first steps. We are all afraid of taking the first step and not landing on solid ground, of falling, of failure, of defeat. There can seem to be too many stumbling blocks along the way. And if any of those obstacles really do stand in the way, we can also work to pick ourselves up and take another step, go another way around. Or, if you go back to image above, maybe the way to get up the first step is bring a ladder and use a tool you already have to climb up.

Regardless of outcome, what is most important is the initial moment of striving towards the dream, the wish, the change. May each of us find the way to take a first step today along a new path that we want to open up in front of us.

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