Where to begin when you’re tried of waiting for big leaps and lucky breaks

We all have the same dream.

To make it.

Whatever your “it” is, the big leaps and the lucky breaks might be the milestones you’re waiting for, the ones you’re aching for.

We believe it’s the big, unexpected events make life memorable and occasionally exciting.

But it’s the small, predictable routines that make it worth living.

Or, at the very least, they hold life together.

They make it possible to carry on from one day to the next.

They make the difference between a million plans and zero actions, to starting something and sticking with it.

They shine brighter and more steadily than a hundred shiny new things.

Embrace your pace

But because they’re small and predictable, it’s easy to dismiss them, underestimate them, forget about them.

Until . . . you’re tempted to settle, until you’re hungry, until you can’t quite seem to move forward, or at all.

That’s when the small and predictable work their magic.

They’re the square one when you’re starting from zero.

They hold you together when you feel like you’re falling apart.

They lead you back from the brink, one step at a time, one arm holding you up, the other on your back.

Small habits to take care of the practical, small rituals to take care of the emotional.

The short walk. A few deep breaths. Your evening jazz. Your morning run.

They sustain you when you’re depleted.

They’re the dead pan look in the face of your fear du jour.

The small rule of the big picture

We learn by going where we have to go. And in times when life doesn’t seem particularly exciting or all that memorable, the smallness and the predictability of tiny actions keeps us centered.

And if you keep doing them, the dawn light begins to break through.

You can feel your world getting bigger.

And you know — today, you’re going to make it.