A mantra for daily living?

Reflecting upon this month's lesson I wonder if we would have lived it differently if not for the first few words...'when in doubt'.  I fear that these words may have made us feel that we can only put this lesson to use when we are experiencing stress or crisis?

Take away the 'when in doubt' and you are left with 'take the next small step' and this to me seems a great way to live every day, and I will share with you why. 

I recently re-opened the book 'The Secret'.  I like to let books speak to me by opening random pages and trust that there is a message there for me.  When I opened The Secret the pages that I read ended with this story by Jack Canfield. 


Think of a car driving through the night.  The headlights only go a hundred or two hundred feet forward, and you can make it all the way coast to coast driving through the dark, because all you have to see is the next two hundred feet.  And that's how life tends to unfold before us.  If we just trust that the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, and the next two hundred feet after that, your life will keep unfolding. 


And so - our lesson this month of taking a step at a time - could actually be the mantra that changes our lives.  Headlights are designed to show enough road ahead of us to be safe in the darkness.  If they were to beam any further ahead, we would probably find ourselves distracted by looking too far ahead into the distance wondering what could be around the bend so far ahead and miss the obstacle right before us that we would have seen clearly if we had been paying attention to what was closer at hand.

Taking life a step at time helps us to:

• stay in the present moment
• pay true attention to those around us
• unburden the worry of what is yet to come
• enjoy life in the moment!

If this month's lesson hasn't spoken to you yet - will this story speak to you so that for the remainder of the month you can try and take things one step at a time and notice the difference in your life?