<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/stephen-passman-14.jpg" alt="Stephen Passman" width="135" height="135" />A marathon starts with the first step. A book, the first word.</p>
<p>My dream is writing a best-selling book that changes the world. And that still starts with a single word even though it’s a colossal pursuit.</p>
<p>Do you also have big dreams that seem overwhelming? Sometimes just the idea of them can drain you, and at times the biggest ones may only seem just that—a dream.</p>
<p>And then sometimes just getting outside and exercising seems like a big effort.</p>
<p>But what if you didn&#8217;t focus on your big dreams or exercising? Instead, you just focus on putting your shorts on. Then, use just enough willpower to get on your shoes. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/05/how-starting-small-motivates-you-to-achieve-big-dreams/" title="Permanent Link: How Starting Small Motivates You To Achieve Big Dreams" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2189,"date":"2014-05-04T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2020-12-27T22:21:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T03:21:18","slug":"how-starting-small-motivates-you-to-achieve-big-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/05\/how-starting-small-motivates-you-to-achieve-big-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"How Starting Small Motivates You To Achieve Big Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/stephen-passman-14.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Passman\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>A marathon starts with the first step. A book, the first word.<\/p>\n<p>My dream is writing a best-selling book that changes the world. And that still starts with a single word even though it\u2019s a colossal pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Do you also have big dreams that seem overwhelming? Sometimes just the idea of them can drain you, and at times the biggest ones may only seem just that\u2014a dream.<\/p>\n<p>And then sometimes just getting outside and exercising seems like a big effort.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you didn&#8217;t focus on your big dreams or exercising? Instead, you just focus on putting your shorts on. Then, use just enough willpower to get on your shoes. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/05\/how-starting-small-motivates-you-to-achieve-big-dreams\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: How Starting Small Motivates You To Achieve Big Dreams\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}