Find Your 2.5

Just this year I started taking vitamins every day. I know, I know, it's probably something I should have already been doing for years. But better late than never, right? When my doctor gently scolded me for not taking them, my need to please had me going out to the store that day to get a bottle. Which of course made me feel like a real adult (until I bought them in gummy form).

Since that day at my doctor, I have been taking them every day. Just 2 little gummies. When I reached for them this week I had a thought about how surprising it is that something so small can still be something we need. And not only is it something we need, but we need it over time. If we tried to take the whole bottle in one day, it would be terrible. We need to space it out. Just a little bit, every day, and suddenly we are better than we were.

So often in life we scoff at tiny steps like that. We feel like we have to go big or go home. But sometimes, just a little bit is what you actually need.

I had the same experience during 2020 when I started lifting weights in my garage. For months I lifted the 45 pound bar, working my way up to three sets of 10 on incline bench press. I felt so weak knowing that I couldn't even add on any weights, I could hardly manage the bar. But week after week I kept going until one day I was finally able to reach for the 2.5 pound weight. As I added it on to the bar, I felt so silly. It was so little. It felt like it wasn't even worth it. But then I realized that it is those silly awkward pushes forward that get us to crawling, walking and eventually running.

In your life right now there is probably something you should add on, but you feel silly for even trying. Don't. Just like the 15 minutes I talked about last week, never feel silly or embarrassed for inching your way forward. Find your vitamins. Find your 15 minutes. Find your 2.5 and reach for it proudly.