【轻阅读，看世界】If you had to choose only one mantra for the rest of your life, what would it be?

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多一种语言，多一个纬度，多一段故事。

I’m a fan of breaking things down into small steps. “Doing just a little bit” is better than doing nothing. So, if I don’t feel like exercising, I tell myself I only need to go on a ten minute trot. If I feel daunted by a big task like writing a book, I tell myself I only need to write a page a day.

A corollary to this is that the sense I have to do it all at once - whatever it is - is one of the big lies my anxiety tells me. If I have a busy week ahead, or a month full of changes, I feel like it’s all coming at me at the same time, and the fact is, it isn’t.

To quote Einstein - “Time exists so that not everything happens at once”.

Whenever I feel overwhelmed, my mantra is “one day at a time, Dushka. Take this one day at a time, or an hour, or a moment at a time if you have to. Notice: this is how it’s being served up to you.”