How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time!
When I first heard this i think it was meant to be a joke but it turns out to be a fantastic piece of advice.
These days it’s so easy to get overwhelmed.
It would be great if the demands could be drip fed to us.
That you could have a capacity limit and all the parties in your life would coordinate to maintain an even level of demand forever.
Unfortunately life isn’t fair and your first child could arrive at precisely the same moment your job kicks into overdrive.
Or your car, which you rely on heavily, breaks down just when you are financially strapped.
Or your first day at a new job coincides with the only toilet in the house refusing to unclog.
One bite at a time.
That’s how the big problems are solved.
That’s how mountains turn into molehills.
That’s how you return to mental sanity after panicky paralysis.
Not avoiding the problem but one bite at a time.
Thomas Duggan 