"Most 'impossible' goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and then going full speed ahead as if they were routine".

- Don Lancaster

I remember an old saying, How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time.  That is the essence of this quote; don't focus on the huge ending, focus on the little steps that get you to the end.

I like to take my family to Disneyworld annually.  We make the long trip from just north of Cincinnati Ohio to Orlando Florida usually in the middle of the night (so my girls sleep through the trip).  Inevitably, I am the only one awake while driving.  If I focus on "600 miles to Orlando", I feel defeated.  Instead, I focus on "50 more miles to Tennessee", then maybe "100 miles to Atlanta", and so on.

It makes the long trip so much more manageable.

That is how we should be with any goal in our life.  I have an amount I want to make this year; it is a fairly large figure but I don't think of it that way.  I think of how many families I must help THIS MONTH to be on pace for the goal.  I have that amount written down, I believe I can achieve it, and I go about realizing the smaller tasks that will ultimately lead me to the higher goal.

Oh, and by the way, if you know me or have ever seen my size, you would know I have eaten an elephant or two in my life.