Getting started, keeping going, getting started again – in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.  – Seamus Heaney

This week I am thinking about compounding, and how a tiny choice, when it becomes habit, can be magnified beyond measure. Whether hiking or savings or friendships, the getting started is great, but the keeping going is what creates a life.

Friends, it’s great to be flexible and spontaneous, and there’s no need for a lifetime of repetition and routine. But let’s reflect on the things that matter most, and how molehills can become mountains.

Let’s put on the boots. Make the deposit. Show up for each other.

For the things that are most dear,

let’s get started;

let’s keep going;

let’s start again.