As Lao Tzu once said: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

Do you have long-term life-changing goals? To earn a million dollars, lose 150 lbs, travel around the world, etc. These kind of goals are great if you can really and truly visualize them coming to fruition. The problem with big goals, is that in your current mindset, most of the time, they’re still fantasies.

Pickthebrain.com has a great article today about focusing on small steps to your goals. If you take your goal and break it down it gets easier. Figure out what the very next thing that has to happen is on the road to your more lofty goals. Want to earn a million dollars? Focus on coming up with a way that you can earn an extra $50 or $100 a week. Once you’re there you can focus on doing it again.

Small steps can lead to big, big effects. Think big, start small.

You can head over to pickthebrain to read the original article, The Magic of Starting Small.