Dooley Noted: 6/4/2016
We live in a world of instant gratification.
Weight loss efforts aren’t appealing unless the loss is quick and easy.
Fitness efforts are quickly abandoned if immediate results aren’t shown.
Efforts toward study and career get abandoned when the work gets too challenging.
It’s hard to believe that slow progress is still progress.
Little appreciation can exist for the baby steps toward goal achievement.
But have you ever watched a baby walk?
They struggle every waking moment for a solid year to earn the right to take those steps.
When is the last time you spent every waking moment trying to be good at one thing for even a week?
That baby fails, and fails, and fails – but gets up each time to try again.
They know they are one effort closer to figuring out how to move.
Once the baby takes those first few steps, they are small, labored and slow.
But look at that baby’s face.
He is determined – and often elated – that he has slowly and painfully figured out how to do it.
Those efforts and steps accumulate into more frequent steps with fewer mistakes to limit them.
And before the observer knows it, she is chasing after that kid that can somehow outrun her – even though the baby is balancing a noggin that’s a third of his bodyweight.
If you want something – I mean REALLY want something – go to a park, airport or mall and watch a baby trying to walk.
Watch another one racing from its caregiver.
You’d be lucky to take consistent baby steps to your goal.
If you took steps like that baby, you’d get to your goal much faster than you ever imagined.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley
