Every day we are guided to learn and grow.  Corey Talbott shared an image of a plant with a bud in the shape of a heart and the caption said “He’s in the small details.  If you move too swift, you will miss them” and it got me thinking about the small details in life.  Again, the magic of the universe and its timing played out as there was a reel that immediately followed discussing making intentional decisions.  In this instance the reel was talking about a business and how the choices we make in representation and how we treat our employees matters and will essentially infiltrate the entire business and how we run it—and how people perceive and receive it.  Like, if we have an idea, and we want something to thrive, we need to take the time to nourish it down to the littlest things.  Specifically, we take our mission/vision/values and apply it to everything we do.  We allow the little things to be the driving force so to speak.  So often we are told to not sweat the small stuff yet here are back to back reminders that the little things matter.

I think the context of the little things matters, speaking from experience, that if we spend too much time on the little things, we get stuck—and if we think EVERY little decision is going to have long term consequences, we will never move.  We have to learn to evaluate what we have in front of us and to use discernment for what has impact—the choices we need to pay attention to versus those we can decide and then move on.  We have to look at what matters and why.  We worry about our image and I think we need to remember that our image isn’t the determining factor in success.  Image is an illusion, it’s what we want people to see/think/feel about us.  Image is a manipulation.  When we work from the little details as a part of who we are and what we are trying to accomplish, it becomes about embracing our lives, who we are.  That authenticity can’t be faked.  That is felt.  In the spirit of growth, patience is key and we will nourish the little details. 

We can’t get so stuck on the big picture, the ultimate goal, that we miss the small things that give meaning to the whole thing, the little things that teach us what matters in the grand scheme.  We have choices every day, choices that tell us who we are, choices that change who we are.  As long as we are connected to who we are at our core, we will catch the little things and see them for the signs they are.  There’s a saying along the lines of not getting so caught up making a living that we forget to make a life, and I think that applies here as well because we can’t get so lost in the big picture that we miss the gifts we receive daily.  The small things give meaning.  And there is another saying that the days are long but the years are short—so we need to remember to be present because someday all the things we felt were the same are suddenly going to be very different and the time we thought we had will have shifted.  Be aligned, be in the moment, be appreciative and aware of what we have right in front of us.  Be intentional, purposeful, and alive.  Take time to enjoy the details that matter, the time to enjoy what we have now, relish in these moments, this long, infinite now.  Learn, grow, love, and live.