Address the gap.

So much of the time, we approach a problem by examining, studying, and dwelling on what isn't right -OR- by pacing around and wringing our hands about how we will never reach the desired goal. We are so good at admiring the problem (or fretting about the impossibility of the target,) but we fail even to take a peek at possible solutions. Instead of this method, we should spend time finding and then addressing the gap.

We need to figure out where we are, then gauge where we want to be, and then figure out what it will take to close the gap. Shifting our focus to the gap stops us from obsessing about A) how terrible things are now and B) how impossible the best case scenario is. If we can define the gap and then break it down into steps, all things are possible.

"It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe