One Step at a Time: Crossing Your Desert of Big Tasks

Tracy retells the image of crossing a vast desert by driving from one oil barrel on the horizon to the next. You cannot see the whole journey, but you can always see the next marker, and that is enough.

Any large, daunting task becomes manageable when you take just the first step, then the next. You need only see as far as the next milestone to keep moving.

Break the big frog into single steps and commit to the first one. Action creates momentum, and momentum makes the rest of the task feel far lighter than it looked from the start.

Put this into practice, start free