"Your Footsteps are the Road"

Every preschooler knows that the first step to becoming, say, a firefighter, is to put on the costume. Lacking a costume, they know that any old hat will do for a helmet and any length of anything can be a hose. And if even those things aren't at hand, the firefighter kit in our mind's eye will do just fine.

We are born knowing that if there is something we want to be in life, sitting around planning or wishing or pining gets us nowhere. Transformation is in the doing.

If you wait until you're motivated or fully prepared to do something hard, to make a change, chances are you will wait a long time, perhaps forever.

Philosopher Antonia Case writes, "We are so governed by our minds that we can fool ourselves into believing that self-change comes from thinking about it . . . We fool ourselves into thinking that we just need a little time, some space, and then, once all the receptors are open, the voice within will tell us the way . . . But this is not how self-change happens. Your footsteps are the road and nothing more."

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