Did you wake up with all the same stresses and worries that you had yesterday? Are you one step closer to your goal or are you in the same spot?

I’ve been in that spot before. I keep a spreadsheet where I list my biggest worry every day, that way I can see patterns over time. And when you have to type in “I’m still fat” or “I still don’t like my job” or “I’m still in a toxic relationship” over and over and over again…it feels awful. It feels stagnant, trapped, stuck, and hopeless. But it doesn’t have to be like that.

When was the last time you started a new habit and it stuck for a while? When you got up early each morning and worked out, or wrote in your journal every day for a week straight? How did it feel to keep those promises to yourself? 

The crazy thing is, it doesn’t even matter how big the promises are. Even keeping a tiny promise like ten pushups a day, or one sentence in your journal is still a promise kept. It’s consistency, it’s reliability, it’s being able to depend on yourself. It feels really good, and I don’t think you’ve gotten to feel that in a while. But you have felt it before.

This is a signal from the universe that it’s time to take those baby steps again. I’m not asking you to run a marathon tomorrow, or write a book, or lose 50 pounds. I’m just asking you to get back in the saddle. Think about what your single biggest pain point in life is right now, your biggest worry, and take one tiny step before you go to bed. 

I don’t care how small it is. Maybe it’s just digging out your old resume and finding it so you can update it tomorrow. Or getting a post-it note and writing a few words to brainstorm a difficult conversation you need to have. Or one pushup. 

However small you need to make this so you can get it done, make it that small. And keep taking baby steps forward every day. Keep those promises to yourself. Any step is better than no steps, and you know how bad it feels to wake up in the same ditch you were in yesterday. No zero days, you know the drill.

Keeping one small promise to yourself every day matters more than you cross the finish line. It’s never going to be easy to make this change, so why put it off? How much longer do you want to feel like this? C’mon, we can make the change together. Writing this was my small step, and I know you can make yours too.