Incremental Steps

Everyday is an opportunity to do more, be more, give more and receive more.

Pay attention to age-old adages — slow and steady wins the race, is one.

It’s true.

If you want to climb a mountain, or swim the sea, or run a marathon, or achieve “oneness “ with “the universe”, etc — it happens for you when you do small, little things each day that move you towards your goal.

Sometimes reaching a goal, though, is about letting go of wanting the prize, or “getting there”.

And sometimes it’s not direct, linear — sometimes you have to learn how to sharpen a stone before you can swim the ocean. There are interconnected parts that don’t seem connected, at times.

Depends on the situation.

To Live Connected, and meet people, and have a strong dating life, to feel good physically, emotionally, to do well financially — it all requires incremental steps, and a willingness to do different steps each day, and some of the same things each day. And being patient, and okay if you take a few steps backwards.

It’s the long road. Sometimes, it’s the hard road. But it’s the road to get where you want to be, eventually.

And “eventually” is the point.

Because it’s not about getting what you want. It’s about becoming someone who can try. And continue to try. And becoming someone who can be okay with failure, or dissapointment, or monotany, or unpredictability.

It’s about hearing people telling you “no”. Or seeing people love what you do and embracing it — and then those same people being mad at you, or hating you a week later.

It’s about loving yourself because you’re trying, and doing your best, and failing, but then trying again, and again, and again.

Living Connected is about doing all that, and accepting that others want to do other things — and appreciating them for it.

That’s how you get good at things — whether you want to get good at networking, meeting and dating people, becoming competent at a profitable skill, or focused, or healthy.

Sometimes, you need a mentor or coach for that, and sometimes you can do it on your own. And sometimes when you think you can do it on your own, you actually need to get other believable people’s thoughts.

It all depends.

Whether you live in New York City, or Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, Washington, D.C., Tel Aviv or Ramallah, Bejing or Tapei, Kiev or Moscow — everyone has to go through some kind of process like this.

It’s up to you, however, to take that step, and the next step and into that journey that might require you to traverse mountains, jungles and cross oceans.

Remember, though, and this is important. As you go, try not to cause an unneeded avalanche, upset the leopard, or tip the boat.

Just go slow and steady.

You think you’re trying to win the race. But again — you’ll actually find that it’s a journey toward self-love, appreciating others, and life.

You got this —