Patients who are healing ask small questions: Can I sit up? Can I walk to the door? Ask yourself small questions too.

Recovery proceeds by questions small enough to be answered today. Asking whether you will be back to normal has no available answer and leaves you where you are, while asking whether you can get to the door has a yes or a no and then a next step. The size of the question decides whether it can move you. Small questions are not low ambition.

Turn whatever you are facing into the smallest honest question you could answer before tonight: one page, one phone call, one flight of stairs. Answer it, then ask the next one. Keep the large question in the background where it belongs.