Baby Steps

In the movie, What About Bob, the theory of taking "Baby Steps" is introduced. Baby steps is just taking life one goal at a time, basically. In order to make a huge leap or bound you take the small steps that get you there. One such example is that of becoming a doctor. You don't just, one day, study your mind out and work so hard to learn the information all at once, you have the level you need to go through. First, you finish your general education (HS), move on to college and receive a Bachelors Degree. Study for and take the MCAT, apply for Medical schools, get into med. school where a whole new area of baby steps can be taken. (By the way all of these "baby steps" have baby steps within them.)

But why? Why take these steps? Honestly, because they make life liveable. If all you could see was the end result you couldn't get it done, because you really wouldn't know how to get there, and you would take everything on at once. You are, also, able to see what you can do at the moment to accomplish what you need to do. You know that for the time being you have one goal to do and that is (we'll say hypothetically) make it through third term. Once you get there, you make a new goal and accomplish that, and before you know it--you have a what you initally wanted.

Many have said to me, though, 'What about the big picture? Don't people lose sight of the whole goal?' All I have to say is this, if someone wants it badly enough they will see the big picture and study it. They will see the tiny things that need to be accomplished in it. It's like a painting you can look at the whole thing and know what it's a painting of, but you will never know how it was created if you don't look at the details. If you can find individual paintstokes or other defining features you have nothing.

From what I have observed of life is that those who can recognize that the big picture isn't all that is there, they are the ones who reach this goal. They know what to do, and how to do it. One step at a time and you will get there.