We eat elephants of different shapes and sizes. But most of the time, doing most of the things that matter, we’re eating elephants:
- learning a new skill
- growing a friendship
- running a household
- recovering
- building an organisation
- bringing up children
- staying married
- serving a country
- paying off a mortgage
- writing a novel
- being a neighbour
It’s easy to feel stuck with things like these, because they’re never done. But in all of them, we can go backward (this includes stasis) or move forward (which is a prerequisite for stability).
I’ll post another day about the meaningful goals that help with forward motion. For today – and there’s less than an hour left of it – suffice to say that sometimes the thing to do with elephants is just to show up regularly and take a bite or two.