God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

— Francis Bacon

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

The heaviest things in a life rarely rest on the structures you would expect. A marriage can hold on one habit of honesty. A career can hang on a single relationship, a body on one small daily thing you keep doing. The load and the support are almost never proportionate, which means the thin, unremarkable strands deserve far more attention than their size suggests.

Pick one part of your life that matters a great deal and trace it down to what is actually holding it up. It will be smaller than you expect. Tend that, rather than the impressive part sitting on top of it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which small detail is holding up something large for you?

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