Tag: progress
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Slips aren’t always fatal, but staying down is
We all fall down. But that doesn’t have to be the end of the song. Any fall that we CAN get up from is one that we SHOULD get up from. When we fall and stay down, we’re safe from the risk of falling down again, but we’re at a fatal risk of doing nothing.…
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Complete not perfect
It doesn’t have to be grand or complex, it just has to be complete. In a world where there are billions of threads hanging loose, a job complete is a job well done. Tie the knot, snip the thread, pack the tools away and sweep up afterward. Job done.
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The part of the world within our reach
This is my second post on Clarissa Estes’ wonderful short essay “You Were Made For this”. Estes opens with the line: “Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach” So often we cast ourselves…
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Rest is better than injury
Sometimes rest isn’t what we want, but it’s what we need. It might mean we don’t make the progress we want, but it’s better than backsliding due to pushing too hard and getting into injury territory.
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Getting on a roll
Everything is harder from a standing start. The status quo has no motion. But when we make tiny gains, we build momentum which we can use to fuel bigger and bolder moves. If we can string enough moves together we can get “on a roll” where the effort to move from one point to the…