One day the Buddah presented a seed to a group of acolytes. “What do you see?” the Buddah asked. “A seed,” they all agreed. “Look harder,” said the Buddah. “It is the entire forest.”

Often, we ignore what we think insignificant because it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the bigger picture. I’ve heard so many people say, “What does that have to do with anything?” with regards to their dream.

But every little thing and detail is connected to something bigger and sometimes is the bigger thing, just not yet.

In a previous post, I mentioned how sometimes a person gets so far ahead of themselves they become overwhelmed and do nothing. But what they really should be doing is looking at the importance of something small and how it can lead to something bigger.

The seed is the entire forest.

People always want the entire dream right now without realising that tiny steps over a period of time make that dream up. Those tiny steps could be thinking of a name of the company, buying new pens to write notes with, writing for ten minutes at night after a day of 9-5, emailing a person for advice, picking up a book on business or sitting down to paint one picture. There has to be somewhere to start, just as there has to be one place to end.

One of my favourite quotes (I collect them as I collect tea. I’m learning how to share both) is from the book, The Power of One. In this book a young man, PeeKay, wants to teach a very small group of blacks in South Africa to read. His teacher questions this, reinforcing that it’s only a handful of people he’d be teaching and what would that really change? To which Peekay responds, “A waterfall begins with one drop, and look what comes from that.”

Possibility lies in the smallest of things. It�s up to us to recognise that and do something with it, rather than wasting time for a big moment that might never come otherwise.

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