Do you remember the first steps you took as a baby? I’m sure you don’t.
No doubt though today you are walking, running, dancing, moving at will and without thought. However, when you were learning to walk if you would have been faced with the idea of having to know how to do all those other things, go all the places that walking would enable you, you probably wouldn’t have taken your first step. Just the thought of having to learn how to run, dance and move when you haven’t even taken a first step would have been detrimental to your development.
Its the same with your ideas. The thoughts of where you want to go and all that will need to be done can be overwhelming. Just the thought causes paralysis. The point is you need to take baby steps. Sounds simple, but it’s often overlooked and the results are inaction.
Learning To Walk Before You Run
Just like you learned to walk before you started running the same is true with your ideas. You may have a clear vision of a big enterprise or succesful invention but what is it going to take to get there. Have you done your research? Have you devised a plan? What are your next steps to reaching that goal? Running at full speed is a beautiful thing but you’ve got to learn to walk first.
Learning To Control The Fall
Have you ever thought about what walking really is? It’s a controlled fall. Your body is a constant state of falling and your ability to control that fall allows you to move forward. Something as uncontrolled as falling is channeled into a direction, speed and pace that allows you to move freely. The faster you fall the faster you move.
You can let your ideas fall to the ground or you can catch them one task at a time. Baby stepping your idea into full speed may seem boring and slow, it may even seem meaningless, but know that your learning to control your falling, your forward momentum and the better you get at it the faster you’ll go. Each day take one, two or three simple tasks that you can accomplish towards your end goal. If that means it’s only 10 minutes a day then that’s what it is, but you’re conditioning yourself to catch the fall and move.
Learning To Take Baby Steps
The reason you learned to walk was because you were focused on taking one step at a time – baby steps.
The reason you will succeed with your idea is being focused on taking one step at a time – baby steps.
Don’t get consumed with the end goal, get consumed by the next goal and take it one step at a time.