There are things in life that we try to do at the same time.
Understand what’s happening to us.
Solve a problem.
Make a decision.
Get back to work.
Understand the other person.
And preferably, do it all right.
The more I think about it, the more I see that many difficulties arise not because we lack the ability or knowledge, but because we try to eat the whole watermelon at once.
And maybe sometimes life requires something much simpler – to cut it into pieces.
I can’t eat the whole watermelon at once.
A very simple metaphor came to me some time ago.
If you have a whole watermelon in front of you, you don’t try to put it all in your mouth at once. It’s just not possible.
You take a knife and cut it into pieces. Or at least cut it so you can eat it with a spoon.
And with problems it’s often the same.
When we look at the big picture, it can seem overwhelming. We don’t know where to start, and our minds try to solve all the parts of the problem at once.
But maybe we don’t need to solve everything.
Maybe it’s enough to ask:
What’s the one piece I can work on right now?
Not:
“How do I fix this?”
But:
“What’s the next small step?”
Sometimes the problem isn’t too big. We just look at it like a whole watermelon.
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