Enormous Change Comes With Tiny Steps

(Do not dismiss anything as too small!)

I’m a huge fan of catch phrases - punchy one liners that sum up enormous concepts in bite-sized pieces. The kind of line that when someone speaks it, you have to write it in your notes immediately, you draw a line under it, a big circle around it and perhaps a couple of stars for good measure.

In a wonderful chat I had today with the glowing Ash Butterss from her Behind The Smile podcast, she said ‘a God-sized hole in the soul.’ Gah! What a delightful collection of words.

Some of my favourites, that students at times joke I should make into bumper stickers, are:

Hold everything lightly.

All the effort to make it effortless.
Your smile as your sword (thank you Gwyn Williams)

Nothing is absolute and everything is relative.
Use the breath to expand the edges of your shape.

And one you’ll hear me say over and over again in my Dissolving Patterns Programs:

Do not dismiss anything as too small.

This little nugget applies to goals as well as obstacles as well as markers of change. So often we’re obsessed with the big things. Big things are great motivators but all big things are propped up by a hundred thousand small things. Once you know and accept that, you’ll understand the power of having tiny achievable goals that you do repetitively, as much as you accept that changing one tiny part of a massive pattern, is what starts to break that pattern apart, as much as you’ll begin to recognize small changes of habit as enormous milestones of progression.

Here are a couple of my own tiny enormous changes I recognised just yesterday.

It’s important to see the big goals - they are your red pin on your map. It’s important to see the big obstacles - they are the things that will motivate you to change. BUT it is the small things, done with repetition, that condition you for the long term and it’s all the small amazing ways that you are changing yourself each and everyday that amount to the long term evolution of you toward your incredible, ever-expanding, fullest potential.

One tiny thing, each and every day, for life.

Lissie

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