You wait forever to make that one big change that will reinvent your life. You procrastinate because it’s so huge that you need time … or money … or space … or desire. Or something.

You stop, then start because it’s too huge to navigate given your current life. Too huge to figure out what start looks like. Too huge to believe in. Finally, you go ahead and make the big resolution. You honestly feel committed. But, in the short and long run, you’re doomed to failure. And failure doesn’t exactly encourage you to try again.

In all that time, you could have been taking small, simple steps toward a life lived well. A vibrant life. Glowing health. Empowered wellness. And in the same moment in time in which you again realize your goal wasn’t reached, you could have been standing and basking in the excitement that this time you truly did it. Making such small changes that you barely noticed how your new life was forming. Effortless. Flowing. Simple. A fit for your current life as it migrates to the new life. But successful soon enough. Wellness reached.

We’ve attempted – and succeeded, unfortunately – in making wellness too big. Too impossible. Not within our grasp unless we’re super human. Which very, very few of us are.

Our society doesn’t stand up and applaud bitty, little steps. We acknowledge big, huge change. But guess what? The journey there is all yours. Skip the naysayers and go quietly about your way back to wellness. And, then, when you arrive at the big, tah dah part – announce it. It’s no one’s business but your own what came before. Big change overnight, which generally won’t stick, or small changes that became your natural way of living.

It’s not my way or the highway. It’s your way. If you haven’t done it so far, what is going to change if you continue doing the same thing? So, hey – try a new way. Make it easier on yourself. Give yourself a way to succeed. Decide that if you think today’s small step is a step in the right direction, then, damn it, it is.

Didn’t your parents ask you – hey, if Johnny decided to jump off the bridge, would you jump, too? Wise advice. (I know ‘cuz I’m a parent.) Stop being a lemming and following the same ol’, same ol’. Be a wise human. Decide for yourself.

Today’s small step equals tomorrow’s well human. One small step for a (wo)man; one huge leap toward you being well.