What are "baby steps"?

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English with Jennifer


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Have you ever heard about taking baby steps?  As you can imagine, such steps are small. When  
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someone takes baby steps, just a little bit of  progress is made. Maybe the person is hesitant  
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or the task is very challenging. Baby steps? It  means setting small reasonable goals for yourself  
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one day at a time. In that scene, a therapist is  giving a patient advice to simplify and go slow in  
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order to reduce the problem. Tomorrow, I'm going  to be in before 11. Baby steps. All right. 11:30.  
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In that scene, a worker is promising to arrive  early, but that's probably a challenge for her, so  
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she changes her promise to arrive early, but not  too early. A small positive change. Baby steps.
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