You know that is so helpful! When I read that my mind jaw-dropped. So true and yet so subtle and thus easy to overlook. Thank you for the insight, it was very enlightening and encouraging.

I have always despised baby steps but I'm slowly being able to embrace them and just accept that they are taking me somewhere... and when you appreciate baby steps, you can recognize that they are what keep you where you're going like a solid link chain.

: You are still very aware of where you
: are and have been. That was (and
: is still) part of deep slow
: progress.
: I aim not for perfection but for
: picking up from the slip- ups.
: Today, I thought ahead about what I
: was going to eat at the Chinese
: restaurant.Told my pal my plans.
: It's a place where you order from
: the counter from a menu with five
: hundred lunch specials.
: I stuck to my plan. Couldn't have
: done that two years ago.