I was having a hard time relaxing the other day when a good friend said, “Well, maybe you can’t relax, but can you relax just a little bit more than you are now… Just a little bit more?“. And sure enough, I could.
It was that first little step with low expectations that got me going.
I remember the first time I gave to Kiva, to provide a microloan. I only gave $25. It was a loan after all. ‘The money should come back,‘ I thought. That seemed like all I could muster. Then a few months later I gave another $25. Then another a few months after that. Today I’ve loaned a total of $800 to 32 borrowers in 12 countries.
Is there a small step you can take today in a direction you’ve been wanting to go?
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
– Lao Tzu
