A small slip here, a small slip there. You don’t notice the backsliding as you step forward, until you pick your head up and realize that all of those little backslides became a slide downwards back to where you began. How do you avoid the little slides, the slippage, the cumulation of all of those little slips and slides? How do you notice what you don’t notice as it is happening? When did I become Sisyphus, with my own momentum pushing me back down the hill?
Traction is needed. Or at least less sliding and more forward movement. Routine, that much maligned habit of behavior, might be the answer, but it seems so dull. Why is it that the answer to so many questions is usually something boring? Perhaps that’s the problem. I’m trying to get up the wrong hill.
But where’s the right one?