Slow

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare

For most of us, the more we want something, the more we want it yesterday. In our society, we have learned to expect to get everything right now. They say that we have turned into a nation of people with ADD. We are not willing to wait for anything, and very often we are not willing to put in much effort to get anything either. We would rather get a 5 minute clip about an important news event on the TV than to read the full story about it actually involves. But that is a way of thinking that sets us up for disappointment because the world really doesn't work that way.

Nothing comes to us without some work, whether it is mental work or physical work, or usually a combination of both. There is no free lunch. And, of course, it takes time to do any work. As "Abraham" points out, that extra time between you deciding what you want and you actually getting it is a good thing because it allows you to make sure that you really do want it enough to do what you need to do to get it. We've all heard "Be careful what you wish for because you might actually get it".

"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." When we desire something that is far removed from what we have now, we will be moving slowly in the beginning. We will start with just a single step. We can't rush at a steep hill and expect to get very far without losing momentum and falling back down it. But if we consistently keep taking what seems like slow baby steps, our momentum keeps building. We will find ourselves climbing the hill faster and faster. And when we get to a certain point, we will start to get exponential growth. And at that point reaching our goals will seem to take no time at all.

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