My friend, Joelle, wants to start a fun rock-and-roll dance class for her friends. She wants to play great music and just dance with other women. She doesn’t want to go to a fancy health club where muscular 20-somethings are all staring and comparing in front of the mirror. She wants to move around and have fun.
“Should I wait until I get more people?” she asked me.
“No!” I said adamantly.
“I have one or two friends who might want to start with me,” she said.
“So start small!” I said. “Start with one friend or two and then you’ll get more and more women.”
“But won’t it be strange to have such a small class?” she asked. “Maybe I should wait until I get more women.”
“You can wait and wait and never get enough women,” I said.
Don’t wait for the perfect condition, the perfect wave. It might not happen.
Make the connection, as Seth Godin writes in his blog. The rest will follow.
Take a little step and you’ll reap big rewards.
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About dianabletter
Diana Bletter is the author of several books including The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (with photographs by Lori Grinker), shortlisted for a National Jewish Book Award, a novel, A Remarkable Kindness, (HarperCollins), a memoir, The Mom Who Took of on her Motorcycle, and The Loving Yourself Book for Women: A Practical Guide to Boost Self-Esteem, Heal Your Inner Child, and Celebrate the Woman You Are, an Amazon top-seller in several categories, and The Loving Yourself Workbook for Girls.
She is the First Prize Winner of Moment Magazine's 2019 Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, tabletmag, Glamour, The Forward, The North American Review and is currently a reporter for The Times of Israel.
Diana and her husband have six children and an unofficially-adopted daughter from Ethiopia. They live in a small village on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel.
DIANA BLETTER 
Yes Diana,
Small steps can also be powerful…
bne good to yourself
David
Absolutely!