I love this advice from Goat Island Performance Group, in its “Advice to a Young Practitioner.” I’m far from young, but it resonates.
“Make small plans.
Temper your big dreams. Dream the smallest thing you can think of and try to perfect that. It’s good to have one tiny perfect thing in your history. This is not a small challenge. There are infinite details to perfect in a small venture and the changes force themselves in, expanding the vision. I feel that my eyes have become sharper in seeing small things since I have been working with Goat Island. As a child I studied in a one room school house and the first word I learned to read was “LOOK.” My vision for a classroom would be an empty room save a table a chair and a microscope.”
Small is elegant. Small is exquisite.
And today, small is achievable.