Stop throwing away phrases one step at a time?

 One Step At A Time

This is. a phrase  many people will throw at us when we seem impatient Orr get frustrated.  Well unfortunately while it may or may not be valid, insetting peace and. Joy it could be a solid approach to have an emotional response sort of ready when you hear this “throw away notion.  There are a whole stack of throw away phrases we. Tie to situations that seem to be either difficult or represent sticky places.  We won’t deal with these right now…just because you know we have to take “one step at a time?”   For instance. Another throw away gem  that is almost always thrown at folks is (I’m don’t care enough to help you  reframe  your contexts and develop new ideas”. Oh wait  nobody hardly ever says that—they say… it is what it is.  That’s is true, however  it may not be what it was or what it might be or it is what it seems to us, however let’s find a microscope. Or a telescope and get some other lenses on this bad boy—but for now it is what it is.. because  we are going back to the “one step” path.  

If you offer  “one step” advice how helpful is it?  Let’s say there is a gap between where we are and where we want to go to solve something and we have the capacity to “leap”..is. one step really the way to think?  Wiley Coyote often took a one step approach and then when he realized that he had underestimated  the gap and the required steps —and unfortunately was holding an anvil or some sort of cannonball .. well off the cliff and down.   What if you are in an emotional minefield?  One step full of fear might have put you there and one step might get the whole darn thing  into a rapid unscheduled disassembly situation.  You might not need one step you may need a helicopter or two coming with rescue lines and. A basket?  Just because it might be. Difficult and frustrating doesn’t. Mean one step is going to get you there.  What if you take a step in the wrong direction?  What if the hangman’s platform doesn’t have  a release to drop the damned soul?  What if you are walking the plank?  There will come a time when that whole  one step. Thing won’t really help your fear and misfortune.  

Oh and there 

are many goals where it is. Going to take a lot of steps. And going only one just won’t get you there.  So like there’s this climbing challenge in Colorado known as the “Incline” it is a two mile hike up a mountain.  Now the view from the top is incredible,  however if your plan was one step. At a time the 2740 steps taken one at a time 30 seconds apart stopping to think about one step at a time would take 1,370 minutes just about 23 hours.. a little less but close.  Mount Niesen is a little bigger and known as the biggest available stair climb .. We are talking 11,000 steps.  That’s almost 4 times the steps at a time so this whole one step thing well you’d better learn to sleep and find a bathroom  somewhere and the people on the steps below you had better be your closest friends or the nicest people on the planet.  So you don’t want to do that but you would like to go the distance  in the Empire State Building?  You have about 1660 steps many of which probably have chewing gum stuck to them so factor in time for shoe cleaning.  

You can look up how many steps it takes to get to the top of lots of things, however be warned that AI is often inaccurate.  How do we know?  Two AI engines give the exact same information for the Eiffel Tower and the building that was once the “Sears Tower”.  They both have a crap load (technical term) of steps yet they are not the same.  The statue of liberty  is a challenge  many people take and the journey is divided into levels so even if you are taking one step at a time you might say you can conquer this if you think in terms of levels if that helps you break. The frozen fear that keeps you taking only one step to bust down frustration.  

It’s okay to take a one step approach if you understand that the steps may not be equal which is sort of assumed by people who say that whole one step thing.  Oh and sometimes it is good to inform folks that it’s one step but three. Steps from here in any direction gives an entirely different outcome. Of perspective.   Once again the Wiley Coyote deal comes into focus.  

Maybe we could all benefit from the one-step thing being set by the wayside in favor of saying any movement  or change could be worth a shot.  Or maybe we could say big changes are possible  but there will be little steps, leaps, summer salts  cartwheels, and a few trampoline  activities  followed by planes, trains, and automobiles.  Will there be one step involved?—sure but let’s not just throw that in.. you may need a parachute and that’s just one step at a time off a perfectly good airplane  so let’s not just throw that phrase around ok?