One step at the time

Hey everybody! Thank you for stopping by! The song of today is called "One step at the time". The inspiration behind the song is how something that seems like a big task isn't that hard to do if you do one small step at the time. To make it clear I will tell you about my experiences of hiking.

Since I´m from Norway of course we were out hiking every weekend (maybe not every weekend, but often). And the hike was usually up to a mountain top and down again. In the car on the way to start the hike thats when I was starting to stress about walking up the steep hillside that always comes like 10 minutes after starting the hike. So surly after 10 minutes into the hike we meet the first steep hillside. That hillside is all I can focus on I don't see any nature or sounds of it, my focus is how wonderful it will be when I´m on the top. I start the climb and after 10 meters starting the climb I had to stop hunched over breathing hard and my heart beating so fast. After some 10 minutes of breathing hard and heart beating fast I reach the top of that hill, but as it is on these hikes there are more hillside to climb until you reach the mountain top. You can imagine the joy and accomplishment of reaching the mountain top, but I lost all what was the hike because I was just focusing to get to top.

One day I decided that I is was going to take this hillside in another way I was going to take it one step at the time. When I took it one step at the time suddenly I could feel the ground under my feet I could hear the sounds of nature, I could enjoy the hill! When I stopped to take a break I looked at the beautiful view instead of just thinking how I could catch my breath to go on. I was present and the hillsides to come wasn't that hard until the mountain top. The whole hike became more enjoyable. To reach the top felt great too, but the difference was that even before I reached the top I was smiling, not only after. And I think that mountain top is like a metaphor for life. If you have a goal you want to reach it gets so much more enjoyable if you take one step at the time. Even decluttering your closet!

Wanna join me?

Which big task can you start taking one step at the time to reach?

Whats the first step you can take today?

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Love and light, Kristin Berge