Manageable Tasks Quotes

You don't have to solve every problem at once.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

Dream big but think small.

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.

I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.

When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is.

You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

In dealing with big problems, you may miss your mark by looking too far ahead

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.