It’s January 1 at 7:55a and I’ve already kept my New Year’s resolution.
What is it? I’ve made it a goal to write (and post) something every day. While you could do the math and say that I’m only 0.27% done, I say that today is the only day that I have on which to keep it, and so I’ve written (and now posted) on the 1 day that is available to me. 1/1 is 100%. Yay me!
Thinking about how many more days I have left to write before the end of the year or what in the world am I going to write about over the next 364 days would seem so overwhelming that I’d likely not have even started by writing this today. There’s a pretty significant reality in that last sentence that we don’t need to ignore.
Most of us never start the big things because we can’t break them down into what big things are made of: a whole lot of little things done consistently over a whole lot of time. Like a stack of pancakes, these “stacks of little things” can add up to a lot. It’s the compounding effect that makes small regular investments grow so big over a lifetime. Some words today, a few more tomorrow, a couple the next day … you get the idea.
But none of it happens without a beginning, and today is the only day we ever have for that.
So begin.
