“…baby step onto the elevator… baby step into the elevator… I’m *in* the elevator.
[doors close] AHHHHHHHHHHHH!” – Bob Wiley
“Baby step to four o’clock. Baby step to four o’clock.” – Bob Wiley
“[to himself] … baby steps get on the bus, baby steps down the aisle, baby steps…” – Bob Wiley
These quotes are from the painfully hilarious movie “What about bob?” starring Bill Murray. Murray plays an obsessively compulsive, fish owning, apartment dwelling man with a list of issues long enough to reach the moon. After visiting a new psychiatrist and given the advice to “baby step” through the everyday things of life. Bob slowly and surely starts making his way, with little to no grace, through the issues which face him outside his front door, including his front door. I will refrain from indulging anymore of this movie in case it still sits on your new movies to watch list from 1991. Which if this is the case, you should baby step through that list in the next decade or so.
This advice is really the only way we actually get though life, one baby step at a time. But time and time again we simply don’t understand this is the path we take. No one reaches the finish line without running the race, yet we always seem to think that others started much closer to the finish line than we are now. We only look at the distance they traveled, while discounting the countless baby steps they took, one by one, to accumulate the very distance they have traveled.
So remember this when you are seeking, searching, and striving for the things in life which seem so distant. Each foot is made up of inches, every book is assembled with words (unless it’s a picture book), and each life is created by choices. Start somewhere.
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” – Dale Carnegie
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.” – Unknown
Life, keep it simple and live it
Josh