I was at an
interesting seminar today that's going to stick with me for a while, (more on
that some other day), but when I was there I had a thought about chaining direction. Most of us, when we are
dissatisfied with our lot in life, frankly, don't do anything at all, we stay
in it--go with the devil you know and all. But some of us will do something
drastic, sell the house, get divorced, move all the way across country, get
surgery, take a lover (I've always wanted to use that phrase) or quit our job. But what if we realized that to truly make a massive,
drastic change all you have to do is make a minor modifications and move forward.
I've been trying to
Google the math on this, I know I read somewhere that a tiny error in an angle
can have catastrophic impacts. And thinking about it, if you move an angle out by .1 degrees by the time it reaches the moon the angle is hundreds of miles off
course (or millions, I'm a poet not a scientist). Even closer to home, imagine
a compass that isn't truly calibrated right and you are using that to wander in
the forest, a slight error in North will send you miles in the wrong direction.
Confused? This is
why I'm not a scientist. Here's what I'm
really saying, if I want things to be different then I have to be different. It
doesn't have to be huge giant changes like leaving life behind, it can be small
targeted changes. I've made some simple but significant changes lately. I've
started following people who inspire me on Facebook, I try to repost things
that sing to my heart, I've given up my snooze button in the mornings (I cannot
stress how huge this one is despite it being small). I stopped eating dairy (not sure why I gave
it up but it makes skipping ice cream easier), I have my groceries delivered to
my house-this way there's no impulse shopping and nothing in the house that
isn't good for me. I am trying to honor
my gut and my heart with what's best for me.
But what's best for me isn't always easy. It's removing people from my life who are
toxic, it's honoring my time and only putting it towards things I want to do and that serve my dream or my heart,
it's eating more vegetables and less processed foods. It's moving more and sitting less. It's having the grace to walk away when
something or someone doesn’t quite fit for me.
When I look behind
me I don't see a massive shift like uprooting my whole life would do, the path
looks almost the same, but I'm counting on the magic of math to prove to me
that slight variations in the angle will result in a massive course shift in
the future. This isn't me saying that
I'm flying blind here, I have a very specific picture of what I want the future
to look like, this is me trusting that the small changes will add up to
something spectacular. I was trying to
type something about missing the target but still getting the landing or
something but the truth is that if I make the small changes consistently and
adapt as I go along, I cannot miss the mark because the mark will change with
me. Huh, I'm pretty profound tonight.
Is there one small
thing you can do to step towards your dreams?
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