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I started going to the gym again at the beginning of this year. Now I’m not what you might call real athletic, so I started out easy. Very easy. At first I was just happy if I went to the gym at all and did ten minutes on the treadmill.

Now my actual goal was (and is) to do 30 minutes 3 or 4 times a week on the elliptical machine, but I felt it was more important to develop the habit of going at all.

Actually going AND doing something that I was in no shape to do would have been too much, so I didn’t even attempt that. Instead, I stuck with itty bitty baby steps.

And there were relapses. I got sick, and missed a week. I fell and injured myself pretty badly, and missed two weeks. I flaked out more than once.

I got pretty discouraged sometimes along the way, because I felt that my progress was so slow. (And compared to my husband, I was moving at a the pace of a snail going uphill.) But I WAS making progress.

And today, I finally did a full 30 minutes of cardio, 20 of them on the elliptical.

I felt so happy afterward. For the first time, it felt like real progress. Now I know 30 minutes of cardio is pretty much nothing to many people, but it’s a big deal to me, especially since I finally feel like I can do it regularly.

It’s worth it. So remember, if you’re in a long plateau on the way to achieving a money goal (or any other kind of goal!) that you WILL get there if you just keep going. Baby steps are just fine, as long as you’re headed in the right direction.

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