Making Practicing one of your daily actions
Mahatma Gandhi said:
“I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have if he or she would put forth the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”
Where ever we are at in respect to our personal, professional or spiritual goals, or how far we feel we need to leap to reach them; practice is something that we can all do no matter where we start. Incremental transformation is the most reliable, lasting, and methodical way of achieving any goal, gaining a skill or achieving enlightenment.
Daily practice is our best bet for attaining the peace, joy, satisfaction and higher awareness. The more important actions we can take towards achieving our goals are simple, daily practice, from the new work skill you want to master, to the acts of kindness or well-being, all of them are granted a higher chance to success by daily practice by Incremental transformation.
Would a month in the Himalayas at the feet of a master or a year serving soup to the refugees in the thirth world would do any good to the world? There is no doubt that it would. But, until then, start where you are!
Choosing a quality or trait you would like to cultivate in your own life and think about what you could do every day, even it it is just for a few minutes a day.
I have worked in my confidence by spending a few minutes each day remembering times I’ve felt confident and stepping back to them so I see what I saw, hear what I heard, and feel what I felt. I could take 5 minutes a day acting as if I was a confident person, standing the way I would stand, moving the way I would move and speaking the way I would speak if I was already confident. Then I asked a friend to ask me if I had done yet the exercises and I would answer with an unequivocal “yes” or “no”. If the answer was no I had until the end of the day to take action.
