Small is good
As a coach I’m in the business of helping people make changes in their lives, a kind of change management consultant if you like.
Sometimes the journey needed to get from where you are to where you want to be seems enormous and the size of the change needed can be overwhelming.
But I remind my clients that Small Is Good: a small change can make a big difference. Every change you make is like dropping a pebble into the pool of your life and the ripples will go on emanating outwards for a long, long time.
If you need proof, try this: think of a relationship you have that needs improving. It might be your relationship with your significant other, a friend, your mum, your next door neighbour…anyone. And if we’re honest, most of our relationships will benefit from a little extra TLC, so I figure you’ll have lots of options here.
Choose one, and decide for yourself what one small thing you can do to improve things: it might be something as simple as saying “I’m sorry” or “hello”; you could decide that you need to change your mindset a little and start thinking about them more positively or that you need to respond differently. Or maybe you need to be upfront and actually say something like “how can we make things better between us?”
None of these things involve moving mountains (or making them out of molehills!) and none of these things is going to mean you have to have a huge upheaval in your life.
But the effect of such small changes can, over time, build into an entirely new and wonderful situation.
Small change, big difference.