It’s easy to get caught up in the big life-changing moment that are affecting us, and rationalize their impact on. Everything else is happening around us.
But it’s a small things that have the biggest effect in the direction of our lives take.
Think of yourself as a small, snowball being rolled down the hill, getting bigger and stronger as it picks up, momentum, until it is one huge boulder, breaking down trees.
That entire process started with the act of creating a single snowball in the palm of your hand.
Don’t Get So Caught Up In The Big Things
It’s easy to get caught up in the big things in our lives. For example, the team you’re coaching that has blown a three goal lead loses by for when it’s all said and done.
The easy response is to get mad at the team and how this could have happened.
But the harder, more difficult response is to ask them what happened and what we can do next to make it better.
The small things are the players, what went wrong, what happened, and what will we do for the next time.
The big thing is the loss. But any good coach will tell you, that is now history.
It’s over, and it’s time to focus on what’s next. Focusing on the small things, taking those actions, as direct correlation to long term thinking.
Big things come from small strides. Any big change in your life is not the result of one big stride.
You don’t say you were going to lose weight and then have the weight shed off of you.
No, it takes the smaller actions of eating well, exercising, purging, bad behaviors – all small actions that when taken on their own might not amount you’re a big change in your life.
But when taken together in small steps, they will contribute toward a larger goal.
The small things put a goal within reach and make it attainable. Small strides make change inevitable.
People Remember The Small Things
Everyone knows what happened on Christmas and your birthday – they are big events that get celebrated with incredible fanfare.
But what about those small interactions that you encourage throughout the year?
Like when someone brought you coffee when you were feeling down, when you reach out to someone for a listening, ear, or when someone took the time to go for a walk with you to work out a problem.
Which one had the biggest impact?
The small cup of coffee, or the fanfare for Christmas?
If you want to make a difference in your life, focus on the small things, the relationships, the people, the interactions, the handshakes, the smiles.
It’s the tiniest of things that can make the biggest difference in someone’s life,
Seeing your grand gestures, do not yield the same return on investment as a steady investment in daily actions and commitment to consistent change.
Master the small, then move on to the next step, and do the same thing again.
One year for now, take stock of how far you have come, what do you have achieved, and where you are going.
Would you have been able to accomplish in that one big gesture?
Wouldn’t have made the same level of difference?
Focus on the small things – for your actions will lead to big differences. From there, the change you want to see happen in your life will happen.
From Pity to Praise 