One Small Step

I can’t do that…. how do you know. Have you tried? There are so many things we’d like to do… ok, I’ll just talk about me. there are so many things I’d like to do. Drive over 100 miles an hour, mm, did that. Jumped from an airplane, ok, did that too. Conduct the Boston Pops in the “Stars and Stripes for Forever”? Now there’s a Bucket list item! Can I do that? I don’t know, I haven’t tried. But it would be great fun!

Let’s start with something simple. Meditation. I hear so many people say.. ‘I can’t meditate. I’m terrible at it!” What does that mean, terrible at meditating? Not possible! Anything that anybody does that is anywhere close to something that might be considered meditating is a good thing. Can you sit in a lotus pose for 4 hours without moving and have your mind take you somewhere amazing? Probably not – yet. Can you sit for 2 minutes and watch your breath go in and out? I bet you can. There. Meditation. Just takes a little practice.

Can you play the piano? Have you ever tried? I could -or someone could- show you a couple of chords, how they work in a song, and boom! You’re playing piano. Are you any good? Probably not. you’ve just been playing for 5 minutes. You wanna be better? Ya gotta practice. Remember the directions on how to get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. How do you get better at meditating? Practice, practice, practice.

What do you want to get better at?…. writing, exercising? data entry? cooking? anything and everything is possible! Start somewhere. Start small. Lao Tzu says the journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. Whatever it is that you want to do, just start. Pretty simple. One step at a time. Then another. And another. You’ll get there. Where will you get? Depends on where you want to go. That one is up to you.

You think you can’t do that? You’re right. You think you can do that? You’re also right. What would you like to do? Think about that! Just sayin’