One thing at a time.

We don't move forward by the extent of how much we plan to get done.

We move forward by how much we actually get done.

It's always better to plan for less and do more rather than the other way around.

One thing at a time. One day at a time.

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was 10 years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird