https://youtu.be/GJGNmgy676I “How do you eat an elephant?” is the question. “One bite at a time!” is the answer. Life sometimes faces us with seemingly insurmountable problems and issues. We don’t know where the head is and much less the tail. We look at what’s in front of us and want to scream. It can be compared to arriving at a disaster scene. One has to keep his calm, assess the situation and come up with a plan. The worst thing to do in time of disaster is to let ourselves get overwhelmed by every little detail. This would cause us to get confused and discouraged, which in turn would keep us from any positive decisive action. To properly assess a disaster or a bad situation one must keep his cool; take one, if not several steps back as this helps to see the full spectrum of things and not get distracted with minute details. Once we have done this, we plan our work and work our plan, one “bite” at a time. Sometime we may feel like we are too small; that as one person there is nothing we can do to solve the problems of the world. I, for one, remember the story of a shepherd who single-handedly reforested a whole area of southern France by planting trees. One seed at a time, he restored life to an area that had been deserted because of over-logging. There is an interesting African folk tale about a hummingbird. When he saw a forest-fire, while all the other animals fled or witnessed the devastation in despair, with his tiny beak and tiny wings, he went to try to put out the fire. We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once! Here is another good example of what the power of one can do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VjisHm4sw
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