Baby Steps was a
book written by the
shrink, played by
Richard Dreyfuss, in the movie
What About Bob?.
Bill Murray plays a
neurotic being treated by Dreyfuss. The idea of Baby Steps is that you should not concentrate on your final
goal, which may seem impossible, rather focus on the small attainable goals on the way to your
final destination. I always thought it was weird that one of my
mantras came from a Bill Murray movie until I looked up
Baby Steps in
Google and found
dozens and dozens of other people who also took this message to heart.
If you focus on something distant and difficult you are more likely to intellectualize it and worry about all the random possibilities, when your energy is better spent actually doing something.