Change is difficult, especially when we think of change in capital letters – Big Change. We think of stepping on the scale and being fifty pounds lighter. We don’t think about lowercase change very often. The idea of steeping on the scale and being one-pound lighter next week is much less inspiring than fifty a year from now. This is why we find ourselves drawn to thinking of change as wholesale, rather than incremental. And this is why motivation can be so difficult. When we see change as something so massive, and so far away, the amount of work and effort it will take to get to the other side seems impossible.

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