Move forward by taking teeny tiny micro-steps.
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Thank you again, Grace, for having just the right words. Your prompt today helps reaffirm my lastest attempt to move past ‘frozen in place’ to actual movement. To push myself from the ‘thinking about it ad nauseum’ stage to actually doing something I have started telling myself I will do ‘it’ for ten minutes….just ten minutes. I can do that. And the simplicity of knowing I only need to do ‘it’ for ten minutes gets me in motion and I then find I can actually do ‘it’ for thirty minutes, or forty-five minutes or sixty minutes because I lose myself in ‘it’ once I start. If I find I am not enjoying myself then I have permission to stop after ten minutes and not feel the need to beat myself up for not completing it or tackling it in the first place. Some itsy bitsy thing was accomplished and it is more than what would have happened if I stayed anchored to the couch making a mental list of shoulds and coulds.
Betsy – This is holy stuff, I’m convinced. It’s that paradoxical thing: “To accomplish more, do less” that has the smack of zen-guru-talk about it. But it works!
I accomplished my family’s earthquake preparedness by taking such nano-steps over the course of several months. I hated every second of it because focusing on a possible earthquake scared the bejeezus out of me, but by doing it for super-tiny nano-sessions (I think one minute was my commitment at some point in the process!), I was able to actually finish it, to the point that I now feel I’m prepared enough to let it all go. (I’ve controlled what I could and the rest is bigger than me.)
Here’s wishing you forward-moving strings of ten-minute mini-steps that make all the difference.