Big questions often arrive wearing boots. “What am I doing with my life?” “How will I fix this?” “What is the right decision?” They stomp around the room, knock things over, and leave us feeling less capable than before.
When a question is too large to answer, make it smaller. You may not know what you want for the next five years, but you might know what you want less of this month. You may not know how to finish the entire project, but you can identify the next email. You may not know the perfect choice, but you can decide what information is missing.
Smaller questions are not an escape from important problems. They are an entrance. They give your mind something it can hold and your feet somewhere to move. Clarity often arrives after movement, not before it. When you feel stuck today, reduce the size of the question until an honest answer becomes possible.
Today’s Prompt
What large question could you shrink into one answerable next question?
