'Baby Steps' Will Take You WHEREVER Ya Wanna Go!

Just a friendly little tip today, to help ya get through the current drama and chaos the libelous Left is relentlessly, unabashedly dishing out.

This post began as just a ‘note’ today, yet magically evolved to a message that seemed worthy of a broader and longer post, so it’s arrived in your inbox, as a “Newsletter“ (kinda funny, how often this happens to me)!

We seem to forget that as infants, we had to learn how to crawl before we could stand, and then walk. We had to learn how to balance ourselves on our under-developed little leg muscles, and walk before we could run… and don’t even get me started on learning to ride a bicycle!

What has always helped Me tremendously, is breaking down tasks that seem monumental or unpleasant (like organizing my taxes each year for my accountant!) into ‘Baby Steps.’ In truth, baby steps will get you wherever ya wanna go, even when the weight of a task seems too big to handle (take a lesson from Donald Trump, here).

In short, if you try and quit placing high expectations on yourself and judging yourself harshly when you can’t master something immediately, you’ll get a lot farther with that aim, and be much kinder to yourself in the process (which frees up your energy to actually DO what you feel a pressing need to do)!

Millions of clients have told me how “hard” on themselves they are. They say it proudly~ as if this is something to be admired by others. IT IS NOT. Have you realized, you were programmed to treat yourself this cruelly as a little kid, by parental units who expected you to automatically KNOW how to do stuff it took them 40 years of life experience, to figure out??

How we are treated in childhood, is how we grow up treating ourselves! Are you your Best Friend? Are you your most staunch supporter? How patient and nurturing ARE you with yourself? Few ever get to this kinder, gentler way of relating to Self, no matter how many decades they inhabit their bodies… and then they inevitably wonder, “how is it, I’ve developed all these physical ailments?!”

Your Body Consciousness (which knows precisely how to heal you, incidentally) absorbs everything you tell it. If you are shaming, guilting and critical to yourself, you’re setting yourself up for illness and early, permanent physical retirement, because those self-beatings take a huge spiritual, emotional and physical toll on you! In short, you are hastening your demise.

When I face a challenging task and need someone’s guidance, I ask ‘em to speak to me like I’m 4 years old. With ADD traits, various arenas that I’m not facile with, need a degree of hand-holding and walking through. My mind has to construct ‘pictures’ in order to make sense of written and verbal information.

I’m not ashamed to ask for this assistance. Compared to my brilliance in other domains, it’s just part of the balance I’ve learned to accept and embrace. It’s merely a way to give my neurology a fighting chance to absorb and integrate what I need to, in order to effectively LEARN.

Bottom line my Substack friends, gift yourself permission to simply take Baby Steps, whenever you’re confronted with what feels like a Herculean or overwhelming task (regardless of what it is). Your psyche, your body and your beautiful spirit will thank you for it. And if you practice this methodology daily, one of these days, you’ll actually find yourself being able to soar!