Taking small steps each day towards a specific goal can help us achieve success in many areas of our lives, including our relationships, health, finances, personal growth, and even making a positive impact on the world around us.
Here are 15 positive things that can be accomplished with small steps, consistency, and perseverance:
1. Learn a new skill. If you can focus for 15 minutes daily, you can learn to speak a foreign language, play an instrument, or bake a perfect cake. All it takes is the willingness to try something new, and practice, practice, practice.
2. Help a child learn to love books. Read from a book together every day or at bedtime every night.
3. Get in shape. Exercise and do something active every day. Can't go to the gym today? Walk, do push-ups, stretch, take the stairs instead of the elevator; keep moving! The benefits are cumulative, and every little bit helps.
4. Invest money methodically and regularly, and watch it grow. Don't get discouraged when the balance seems trivial in the beginning; just do it.
5. Create a great garden. Keep amending your soil with organic matter, pulling weeds, rearranging plants until you find the right spot, pruning, dividing, and doing the daily tasks.
6. Enjoy an organized home. Stop the inflow of stuff and keep working on distributing the outgo. Don't give up. Eventually, the tides will turn, and you'll start to enjoy a simpler, neater living space.
7. Live in gratitude. Jot down just three things a day that you're thankful for in a gratitude journal. In a year, you'll have amassed a thousand blessings!
8. Create something. Knit a few rows on the baby blanket while you're watching television. Work on your novel each morning in a 15-minute microburst as you drink your coffee. Before long, your project will take shape — and one day, you'll complete it.
9. Enjoy good health. Do your best to eat well, sleep well, exercise, get regular checkups and care for yourself. Over time, you'll benefit from the long-term benefits of these simple daily actions, and you'll be grateful to have fewer ailments, more energy and greater independence.
10. Go deeper spiritually. Develop a spiritual practice that is intimate and unique to you. Dedicate a time daily or weekly to enter into its use.
11. Live without debt. Stop using the cards, avoid accumulating more debt, work hard to pay more than the minimum payment, and make paying off bills a priority. It may take time and discipline, but eventually, you will be debt-free and enjoy the benefits of freedom (and a good night’s sleep).
12. Nurture relationships. Relationships flourish with regular attention, and sometimes just taking a moment to reconnect with someone can have lasting benefits. Think about the people in your life who are truly important and try to connect with each one regularly.
13. Implement change. It can be tempting to think that one vote doesn't matter, or one signature on a petition — but of course, we all know that it takes collective unity to make things happen. Support your important causes, and never underestimate your influence.
14. Change a life. It can be easy to think that a small amount of money won't do much, but the reality is that every little bit helps and even a small donation can often make a big difference.
15. Save the earth. Across the world, like-minded people are surely and steadily taking steps individually and collectively to live greener and reduce their environmental footprint.
Amazing accomplishments can seem daunting to undertake but remember that they only require small steps, consistency, and perseverance.
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
Source: 15 Amazing Benefits of Small Steps, Consistency and Perseverance
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