Today’s wisdom from She Recovers Every Day: Meditations for Women by Dawn Nickel, PhD

January 14 – Inching toward our dreams

Even in recovery, it can be easier to stay in dreaming mode than it is to do the work to make a dream come true. Until one day, we just know it’s time to go for it.

Then we learn or remember that the dream needs a plan, and the plan needs to be translated into lists, each one of which needs to be broken down into dozens or hundreds of baby steps. When we look at the big picture, we get overwhelmed.

There’s only one way forward. We take one small, easy baby step. And the next day, we take the next baby step. When babies start walking, they wobble and sometimes fall. We can wobble and fall too, but we keep getting up and we keep moving forward.

Sometimes we ask somebody to hold our hand to steady us. As we build up our confidence, we take bigger steps and inch ever closer to making our dream come true.