One Step at a Time
This lesson was learned the hard way on Cradle Mountain. The views were amazing and the path was long. We walked at a brisk pace for over two hours. It was an invigorating experience and we felt honoured to be on holidays in this amazing part of the world. Frequently steps found us. The longer we walked the more arduous and bewildering these steps seemed to become. Almost as if they had a taunting life of their own… daring us to try and conquer them. As we neared the end of our trek (a part of me not really wanting the experience to be over) a particularly challenging set of steps sneered wickedly down at us.
I sighed, looked up and in one of those rare moments that only happens every 2,865 days, I thought ‘Well there is only one way to do this and that is one step at a time’. Trying to do any more than one step at time would be as foolish as jumping off a wardrobe.
I thought of this rare and precious insight as I looked at my list on the desk this morning. The list seemed long and inexpugnable. And then Cradle Mountain and those steps came back to me.
“OK” I muttered, fruitlessly trying to inject some determination into soul. “We’re just going to do this one step at a time.” It did not make the list go away, just as those monstrous steps did not vanish at Cradle Mountain. But at least there was a way forward, a methodology, a plan of attack.
Perhaps, like me you too have those moments or days where the task bewilders and befuddles you. If so, remember that you are not alone and together we’re just going to do this one… step… at… a… time.