I was sitting looking out of my front window. It is early Sunday morning. The sun is shining, the birds are calling to each other, and the trees are budding … finally. This winter (and I do not mind winter) seemed like a never-ending one, a long hard one … but today, this morning, it ended. Today I returned.
Winter has passed, and the new season, the season of birth, and rebirth had begun. Trees, plants, animal and all our varied birds are coming back. I, too, have been brought back. I spotted my first robin of the year while overhead, another giant flock of geese filled the skies and then settled in the fields surrounding me, the place I call my home. As the day progressed, others started to emerge maybe from their doldrums, unwrapping boats and campers in anticipation of the season ahead. Waking from hibernation, we come stretching and pulling, scratching our heads as to where to start the spring clean up, or pondering the first road trip, maybe getting onto the water for fishing … so much to do, so let’s get started!
First things first … choose one task and get that one done, then move on. It’s early in the spring yet, so we still have time. Don’t be overwhelmed. So many of these things can become a challenge when taken all together, so we often just put them off … and then they do become too much and nothing getscompleted … or even started. One at a time, we can gauge our progress, and progress we do.
In a course I help facilitate, we ask of the participants “How do you eat an elephant?” The answer, of course, is “One bite at a time.” So goes life, especially when things seem overwhelming, over the top.
One chore at a time, and you will start to see the progress as you check each ‘bite’ off your list. Things get done. Life is not an event; it is a process, and requires a plan to, as one comedian once said, “Get ‘er done” so you can then go and enjoy your summer, and be safe on the roads and on the water, and relaxed knowing that the necessary ‘tasks’ of spring have been accomplished.
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