Long term excuses

Short-term excuses are easy to find. Every day, we are inundated with interruptions, emergencies, and fires.

The long term, however, is something we can push out. “Someday,” we say, “when I have time.” Long-term goals have this way of becoming a dream because we forget to work the small bits every day that make it come to fruition.

If it’s a project you believe needs to happen, why not start with something small today? Just stack one brick. And then tomorrow, another. Then another. Maybe two on Sunday. Because of our culture of instant gratification, we tend to undervalue the idea of incremental forward motion.

Perhaps, instead of finding the long-term excuse for why something isn’t happening, we can flip the script and say we are building, and it’s taking time.