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| Level Your Life [The Level of Beginning] [3.08] |
Beginnings
Whether you are starting a simple fitness
regimen, training to run a marathong, building a corporate team or establishing
a functional family, completing the task can seem a daunting proposition. Begin
everything you find challenging to do by taking the first step; then follow up
with another step, then another. It helps emotionally and mentally to break any
new task up into small, manageable segments.
You need to train your body to run five miles and
incrementally increase the mileage gradually until someday, a twenty six mile
race seems plausible. After all , if the grandfather clock knew how many times
it had to tick in its lifetime, it might have quit a long time ago.
Be reminded that the journey of a shousand miles begins with a single step.
Be reminded that the journey of a shousand miles begins with a single step.
Don´t be concerned with how faw or how quickly you
travel at the beginning. Everyone´s path is different and you must understand
this. The warrior nows that what matters from the outset is moving in a
positive direction ; make sure this is the direction your feet are pointed.
Begin a journey in fitness,work or life and never give
up until you have reached the end. Through steadfast perseverance, you will
attain succes. To help with this, focus on the joy of the journey rather than
the goal.Even as you struggle - and we all do - begin to see the value in this
natural aspect of the journey. The struggle is teaching you something valueable
about yourself and when you complete the task , having stayed on course
throughout the hard times, you exponentially increase your joy , satisfaction
and appreciationfor what you have accomplished.
The experience itself becomes the primary purpose of
your efforts.
The beginning of any endeavor is a moment filled with
great power and we are always in a state of beginning and becoming.
Declaration: I begin all new tasks in realistic
fashion: one step at a time in the direction of my target. In this way, I can
feel relaxed, calm and confident about the whole journey.
Reflection: What have I been attempting to begin in my
life but have been putting of because it seems overwhelming ? What would be the
first three steps in getting me started?What one thing can I do today to move
in that direction ?
[paraphrased and inspired by Spirit of the Dancing Warrior]
