#2 Game of Life - Baby Steps

Good Morning, I'm going to talk about my little addiction again this morning, the game Yoville that I play! It's so cute and it's the best free self-help thing I've ever seen. I know it's just for a little bit of fun, men, women and children are playing this game. So, you do have to be careful if you talk to anyone, and you can talk to them, because you don't want to have an adult conversation with an 11 year old!

Today, I want to talk about the coin runs. This is when you first log into the main site, you can go to other people's pages, you click this little light switch and you get 5 whole coins! The other thing is, you can start at your profile any time you want and gain more coins by doing as it asks you and going to each person's page and taking a pot of gold, also worth 5 coins off their page. It's cute and you can accumulate a lot of coins this way. It takes about 5 to 7 minutes, not so bad.

Now, you have a job here, they tell you what that is, you work at a factory. You click on the little star and depending on the number of friends you have, you make 235 coins at one shot! Wow right? LOL

This morning, as other times, the screen asked me if I wanted to do the coin run where you get 5 coins at a time by taking the time to go to all these people's pages. I felt this little pull to just go straight to the factory and make the big bucks! Why not? It's more money, you don't spend as much time doing it either.

And then, it hit me. I was more enticed by the instant gratification of the larger amount than all the little things I had to do, which were kind of boring and tedious rather than looking at the overall picture. The more we get the more we want. Are we really willing to take all the small steps necessary to get to where we want to be? Whether it's saving for something or a business endeavor we have, or maybe even working out.

We have to do all the little things necessary, to acheive certain goals in life. It may take more than 5/7 minutes of course, but I think we can identify with wanting "it all" versus a slow and steady progression towards the things we want to accomplish.

So, now, while I still want the bigger salary (coins), I understand that it's going to take some of the baby steps to get to where I have a nice savings and then over time, with a little elbow grease and persceverence, I can have more of what I really want. Course I'm only using a little clicker on my mouse right now but it goes to real life too.

We all may to develop the right mindset, the patience to really make a plan and stick to it no matter what. That takes time, it takes knowing when to shift what we're already doing or when we need to maybe learn something else in life to get to where we want to be.

What it does take, is the ability to sit back and look at the whole picture as to where we want to be. I mean, what is your goal? How are you going to go about getting there? Are you willing to put in the extra effort now that it will take to get to the point you want to be?

More food for thought this morning. I like to make things simply to identify with, life doesn't appear so simple sometimes and we have to get a little dirty first before we can shine.

So go on with yourself and get to the little stuff, so you can reach the bigger things you want! They say you can't run a restaurant in life unless you understand all the positions within that restaurant. I heard that some where once and I think it's true.

So, stop, think about the steps you want to take, if they don't work, do something else and keep at it until you see some progress. I don't care what it is that you want to acheive, just ... do it.

Bye!