Baby Steps Are The Most Important You’ll Ever Make in Business

What’s holding you back from taking one today?

I have some awesome conversations with small business owners these days.

I’m always inspired by their big goals and eagerness to learn how to reach them. I wish I’d been that proactive when I started out.

But there’s a common theme in those conversations that I don’t like. A phrase that recurs again and again.

It’s this: “I just don’t have time.”

Or its variant: “I’ll do it sometime in future.”

Friend, the time is now.

If you have an idea, an aspiration, a big audacious goal, go for it now. Don’t push it to the back burner. Don’t talk yourself out of it.

You can make time, and that time is now.

You don’t have to go all-in. You don’t have to quit your 9–5.

You definitely don’t have to get up at 4am, or subscribe to an expensive gym membership, or start taking cold showers every morning (unless you want to, of course).

Start small, but start now.

Just take that first baby step towards the big life-changing thing you’ve always wanted to get your hands on.

And then take another. And another.

It’s ready and waiting. Reach out, grab it, and pull your future into your present, today.

If you liked this, subscribe to my growing Substack communities, How to Write for a Living and The Solopreneur Stack. I’ll send value-packed content straight to your inbox every week to help you learn and grow. Join now.