Take tiny steps

Do you ever feel like you could use a magic wand and change things? Be fit? Run faster? Lose weight? Have a clean house? Empty Laundry basket? Whatever you want or wish for, just comes easy?

Well no, life doesn’t work that way. I watched a movie about a man who loves his job and his family but ends up losing his family because his job was too demanding. He missed birthdays and special occasions because of his job and then he ended up alone, on his couch after his wife took his daughter and moved out.

While he was feeling sorry for himself, he tried to open a container of some sort and out came a genie. She was funny and not very smart and he got the fright of his life. He could wish for anything he could dream of. But he wasn’t a selfish person. The genie tried everything to help him to get his wife back. And in the end he wished for the genie to be free.

The genie left him with three wishes and a note with numbers. The numbers were actually a date, the day his wife moved out. He wished to go back to that day. He saved his married, took his daughter out to a nice restaurant and they returned to the happy family they once were (he did quit his job too).

The genie opened a pizza shop and they ordered pizza from her regularly.

But this is also a reminder that nothing in life comes easy. It takes hard work and motivation. Dedication and the right mindset too. We don’t have a magic lamp or a genie to grant any wish on command. But how magical would it be to have some fairy dust to change things.

I saw a video on Instagram – a personal trainer for runners. The video started with the words “How to run better.” And the he said “It is not in your gear”, “It is not a fancy fitness watch”, “It is not in your shoes” and the he ended with saying “You have to run more”.

That was a wonderful way to say stop being lazy and run more. There are no quick fixes and no easy way to do it. The more you run, the better you will get. The more you diet the more you will lose. The harder you work on the things you want, you’ll probably get where you want to be.

It doesn’t matter if you waddle your way to the ocean like a penguin, you will get to the ocean and then you will swim. Penguins are much better swimmers, than walking. Maybe you are the penguin trying to find your way to the ocean, maybe you need to find a different path to a place where you will be a much better swimmer.

But whatever you do, all the small daily actions will lead you to the big changes.

And soon, you will be sliding into success.