Forward Positive Momentum – One Step at a Time

Written by Elena Blume via 3MOTIVE8

Leap over your hurdles.  You can do it!

Sometimes the tasks in front of us can seem enormous and insurmountable.  Barriers easily get in the way of goals and before long much time can pass.  Do not let these barriers overcome your drive to succeed in achieving your goals.  There may be some things that you do not understand which may even be required to acquiring your next success, but the best bet is to step right up.  Take the first little step.  Get going on your dream.  Once you know what you would like to achieve it is surprising what opportunities may arise that you hadn’t otherwise noticed in taking that second step.

Famous Inventors, like Thomas Edison for instance, go through many, many steps before achieving their goals.  They begin with a single step.   If they must try a thousand times, then they try a thousand times.  They are excellent examples of positive forward momentum.

Maybe you don’t know how to do something, but you can learn.  Maybe you can find someone else who already knows what you need and they would like to help you to achieve your goal.  The point is that it is well done to take one small step and then a second small step, followed by a step or so after that.  There may be a thousand steps to your particular goal.  The happiness comes with each step.

Have you ever hiked through mountains and then looked backwards along your path?  Sometimes it can be completely astonishing just how far you’ve walked.  Had you not have taken those first steps, you’d not see the tremendous beauty in the sunset between mountains along a white water stream you’d never even dreamed of before. Enjoy the beauty along the way to your goals.

Perhaps there is a river you need to cross.  Look for the log bridging the gap and ask your colleagues to lend you a hand.  If there are fallen trees in the way of your journey, step across them.  Don’t give up until you have reached your desired location during your journey.  It is the cushiony moss covered meadow beneath the forest’s canopy.  If it takes you miles and miles to get there, keep on taking each small step.  Carefully balance on the switchbacks and be cautious of where your footing is.  Before you know it you will arrive!

It can be good to be precise in your vision and the more simplified, the better.  Have a very positive “BIG” dream and put that dream into a “SMALL” number of precise words and images.  Then start one step at a time working positively forward to build momentum for your dream.  Believe it is possible, one small step at a time.