A big change can be hard to begin when you ask too much of yourself at once.

A big change can be hard to begin when you ask too much of yourself at once. Choose one small promise today that you can keep even on a busy day. It might be a ten-minute walk, one page of a book, or a reply to a message you have been putting off. When you finish, do not dismiss the effort as too little. The value of a small step is more than its result: it shows that you can follow through on a decision. Make the next promise bigger when the first one already has a place in your daily life.