The Journey Starts with One Step

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss how the journey to where you're going is much closer than you realize, and the first step is much closer than we think.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life
0:05.6	I'm your host Cory Muscara and in today's episode we're going to talk about starting close-in
0:13.1	More to come on that in a moment first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells
0:30.0	Okay, so I'd like to read a poem for you by David White and the name of the poem is called start close-in
0:46.2	start close-in don't take the second step or the third start with the first thing close-in
0:57.8	the step you don't want to take start with the ground you know the pale ground beneath your feet
1:05.3	your own way of starting the conversation start with your own question give up on other people's
1:13.9	questions don't let them smother something simple to find another's voice follow your own voice
1:21.6	wait until that voice becomes a private ear listening to another start right now take a small step
1:30.4	you can call your own don't follow someone else's heroics be humble and focused start close-in don't
1:39.0	mistake that other for your own start close-in don't take the second step or the third start with the
1:48.0	first thing close-in the step you don't want to take so notice how that one lands for you at this
1:59.3	particular stage in your life read this poem felt a lot of resonance with it for me I definitely
2:09.4	think it can be easy for me to get caught up in the second step the third step or compelled by
2:16.6	the fifth step six step excited by the idea what can come but there's then a subconscious resistance
2:24.7	to moving toward it because I'm not also looking at what is the first step right here and sometimes
2:29.9	the first step is a painfully simple but also hard having a difficult conversation feeling something
2:40.6	having an honest conversation with yourself about where you are making space for something within you
2:48.4	the pole of the third step fifth step ten step hundredth step can be compelling and it's great
2:56.5	future visions do help organize our energy in the present moment but we must recognize that the
3:04.2	journey to the hilltop starts with the step right here one step in front of the other and so as
3:11.8	you explore where you are in your life right now and you continue to feel into this and we're all
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