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It is common to try to leap ahead past the quieter joys of setting up each piece, balancing, measuring, creating a system, and finding the peace, presence, and potential to savor that stage in favor of the seeming-grand finale.

Focus on the stage where you are.

• Appreciate that stage for exactly what it is and how it will set you up for the next one.
• When you're ready, look for that first (or next) domino, not the 2nd, 5th, 10th, or 100th down the line. Just the next. 
• That's how big progress is made. Through small, incremental steps.