A million tiny steps…

Is it just ME, or do you, too, notice the panther-like movement of a professional athlete?

Take a tennis pro – always moving…

Look at a thoroughbred stallion – never standing still…

A boxer – always bobbing and weaving - unless it’s about to be over!

The first law of physics teaches us that a body in motion stays in motion…and so it does.

I remember my Dad coaching and teaching his students to keep moving; never stand still.  During my own tennis lessons, he would say “…a million tiny steps, a million tiny steps…”  He said pretty much the same thing off the courts, as well, “…never stop moving, don’t stand still, move, move…”

When a body is in motion, it is easier and faster to take a step in any direction and at any time then doing so from a flat footed stance.   Again, it’s physics.  The lesson, then, it rather obtuse:  keep moving.

Millions and millions of steps can get you anywhere you seek to go.  Not taking the first step thwarts all goals and probably makes it harder and harder to decide to take that first step – eventually.  The result is stagnation, self-paralysis, boredom, and a life of wondering, ‘what if’.  That’s not living; that’s just “to be”.

I have always been fascinated by those who take ten minutes to tell you why they don’t have five.  As NIKE says, “Just Do It”.  Stop finding excuses…Find out if you made a good decision, did you take a step in the right direction, and have you given yourself a clearer view of what the NEXT step should be?  Have you learned?  Have you discovered?  Have you grown?  Have you contributed?

So what if the first step wasn’t in the right direction? One less option to try – good news, you’re getting closer!

A million tiny steps added together are to cross a continent, to travel the world, to discover what you never will by standing still.  MOVE!

What’s really great about moving is that it doesn’t exhaust you; it invigorates you; you breathe better, sleep better – you ARE better.

So, IS it just me, or do you, too feel like taking a step forward – any direction will do … then another … then another…………

Thanks Dad

(I really did listen; I really did learn!)