115: How Small Daily Actions Quietly Change Everything
Why your vision doesn’t need more time... it needs a container
Imagine you are in your kitchen preparing a big lunch for 100 people.
Pans everywhere. The oven is on. It’s hot. Onions and garlic fill the counter, vegetables waiting to be sliced, meat slowly roasting.
Life is happening.
As you cook, you notice something else. Your mouth starts salivating, not because of lunch, but because you’re thinking about a cake.
A cake you’ve wanted to make for a long time. A recipe you saved.
Something you’ve been quietly longing for.
But you cook lunch every day for other people.
So the cake keeps getting postponed — “when I finally have time.”
The weekend comes. You’re exhausted.
The last thing you want is another moment in the kitchen, so you rest, walk, recover.
Still… the desire doesn’t go away.
It never really does.
Monday arrives.
You’re back in your groove. Again, lunch for 100 people.
Again, the cake crosses your mind.
When I finish this, I’ll start the cake.
But this time, something different happens.
A quiet whisper inside you says:
“If not now, I’ll never eat this cake.”
That thought makes you pause.
And in that pause, you realize something important.
If you truly want to eat the cake, you’ll need to try something different.
Btw… this isn’t about cooking. And it isn’t about cake.
The kitchen is still on fire. Onions and garlic everywhere. The oven still full.
But instead of waiting for a perfect moment, you take out your phone and finally open the recipe.
You see the picture of the cake, and it makes you smile.
You check the oven. The meat isn’t burning. You lower the temperature and return to the recipe.
You read the ingredients. You notice you’ll need a bowl and a blender.
So while the water boils, you grab the bowl. You take out the blender.
You line up the ingredients on the counter.
Nothing dramatic happens. You’re still cooking lunch.
But slowly, without forcing it, the pieces for the cake begin to gather.
Lunch gets served. Dishes get done.
And before you realize it, the ingredients are already mixed.
You’re tired. But you feel good.
And even in your tiredness, you turn the oven on one more time.
You put the cake in. You sit down.
Soon, you can smell it.
Now you know… it’s only a matter of time. And this feels awesomely delicious in your body.
This is the power of intention combined with small, consistent actions.
Life will never slow down enough for you to finally give your full attention to what lives in your heart.
It just doesn’t work that way.
What life does instead is reveal a choice that has always existed:
Either you create the time… or you never eat the cake.
And what you begin to see is this:
You do have time. Even while preparing lunch for 100 people.
What you’ve been missing isn’t time.
It’s guidance, focus, and structure.
This story isn’t about cake.
It’s about life.
We spend years… sometimes decades… postponing what truly matters to us.
And the reasons always feel valid.
Kids.
Work.
Bills.
Relationships.
Responsibility.
Service.
None of these should be dismissed. They all matter.
But if you never stand up for yourself and decide that now is the time, I’m afraid you’ll keep waiting forever.
This isn’t an either/or choice.
It’s not responsibility or desire.
It’s both.
But for both to exist, you need a container.
Planning isn’t meant to be rigid. And vision alone isn’t enough.
If you don’t consistently place your energy where you want to go, nothing magically manifests.
What actually works is learning how to translate your vision… not all of it, not perfectly… into small, daily, doable actions that your real life can hold.
That’s how the bowl gets on the counter.
That’s how the ingredients gather.
That’s how momentum is built without burning yourself out.
That’s exactly what we do inside our Sacred Planning Rituals starting this January.
We help you take what’s already alive in your heart… your vision, your breadcrumbs, your sense of what’s next… and translate it into small, consistent daily actions that make that vision possible.
Not someday.
Now.
We’ve been practicing this inside Sacred Business Flow since the very beginning.
And when we ran this challenge last year, what emerged wasn’t just clarity… it was coherence.
People stopped waiting. They stopped overwhelming themselves.
They started moving… gently, consistently… toward what mattered.
So if you feel the pull to create something, and you keep finding reasons to wait, pause.
Those reasons might not be practical… they might be a pattern.
One that’s been protecting you… and quietly keeping you stuck.
If it’s in your heart, it’s there for a reason.
But without structure, your essence can’t flow… and you may start believing it was never meant for you.
It is.
You just don’t need more time.
You need a container that helps you keep choosing the cake… one small action at a time.
With Love,
Carolina
Here is what I want to share this week …
The Real You
I resonate so deeply with this idea Alan Watts brings so powerfully in this audio — the experience of dying while alive.
Not in a dramatic sense… but in the sense that everything you took to be “you” … your beliefs, your roles, your ego-identity, your meanings…
begins to dissolve.
And what remains is something beautifully ordinary:
present awareness.
The you who is here before the story.
It can sound philosophical, but in my view it’s actually very practical.
Because when he speaks about cycles — birth, death, renewal, expansion, contraction — he’s pointing to something very real in entrepreneurship and embodiment:
There is no final destination.
There is only who you are being in this moment.
There is only what is right in front of you.
Who We Are Celebrating
Silvi Demirasi … “Undoing Avenue”
I want to take a moment to celebrate something very special. :)
Silvi just launched her new project, and her latest essay - The Invocation House - gave me goosebumps from beginning to end.
The way her mind works is fascinating… the clarity, the precision, the depth, the softness.
There is a frequency in her writing that feels like the beginning of a new adventure, and I’m genuinely excited to follow where she goes from here.
I truly recommend reading her Substack.
If you feel called to it, go read it.
Let it land where it needs to land.
A Piece of Gold I Want to Share.
Celebrating you and your work Silvi! Thanks for sharing your beauty with us!
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