What Would The Very First Step Look Like?

Many of my fellow Queenslanders are dealing with the aftermath of the recent terrible flooding.  I am intensely proud of the courage, grace and generosity of the people in my adopted state.  And I have some 'survivor guilt' about my own clean, dry house.

Friends have told me about returning to homes thick with sticky, smelly mud - everything ruined.

So what did they do when overwhelmed by the enormity of the task in front of them?  They started with the first step.

Solution focussed therapy uses this approach - when trying to do something hard, break it down into tiny, tiny steps and then just focus on doing the very first step.