Brick by brick, step by step, tiny movements forward....

I hear you- like today when I had no energy. Today I still went for a short walk and did some of my strength exercises- half the exercises using half the usual weight has to better than nothing. Sometimes we have to respect our journey with smaller steps.

Hey @Free2025 glad this works for you. Most people give themselves a hard time for not being able to do what is considered easy...when life is easy, but the reality is, when resources are tight, you ration 'em like they did in the war! Another way of saying, realise you have more limited resources at the time and work within those. Hope you are doing better.

Not bad @Icaruslanded 

What are your thoughts.... brick by brick is that recovery focused through addiction and step by step similar? @Icaruslanded 

Just keep chipping away? @Icaruslanded 

@Dk5 Hello! Yes, tiny steps, little celebrations. When you look at a tv picture on the screen you are looking at the sum total of thousands of tiny red green and blue lights, organised in different microvoltages to make up a total picture. We seldom think of the tv picture for what it actually is though - a composite of thousands of small things to achieve something remarkable. It is the same with overcoming challenges - most people try to do too much all at once, which, for the most part, is unattainable, and so they sink back down. Whereas, small steps forward, consistently, and celebrated for their own contribution, create a palace for us of our own making, over time my friend.

As a fun aside, I have created many virtual worlds, mostly using Minecraft. Although I do not actually play the game itself, I do enjoy creating full cities. My last (and probably final one - done nine overall) was made up of thousands and thousands of cubes...I don't know how many in total. But, if you scaled them up to real size (1 metre x 1 meter x 1 meter) , it would be the equivalent of 70 square kilometres. They are working cities too - 'people' live in them, they have working railway lines (mine carts), even a substantial underground, waterways and other features....last one took me eighteen months to build...one 'brick' at a time I am a geek lol

@Dk5 Sorry, have only just seen this message. It would apply to any form of change. Addiction is a gradual process that takes over a person. Because of this, it is built 'brick by brick' too. A gradual decrease or absense of the cause of the addiction then, and, importantly, rewarding yourself for the small achievements along the way, can really help to break the cycle. I think with a lot of addictions, the emotional desire is so strong it can be very hard for people to overcome, so the small rewards along the way are very important. I would further add here, if you can emotionally make the reward for being free of the addiction greater than the desire to continue with what is causing the addictee pain, that makes the whole process easier. They would gradually return to a place of self-love, and away from the place of self-hate caused by the addiction, yes? Also, many times we do for others we care deeply for can be more powerful than those sacrifices we might make for ourselves. This is 'artillery' we can use to win the battle. I hope this helps.

@Icaruslanded .... priitty cool

@Icaruslanded ..... thanks man. "Keep chippen away" small little steps equal big moves