Baby Steps

When working toward large scale change, like making a dent in global warming or finally remembering to close your mouth while you chew, the easiest course of action is to take baby steps.  Named after the few clumsy, inefficient steps babies take between two cooing onlookers, baby steps are pretty useless in terms of results, but make everyone proud because you finally committed to something instead of being all talk.

Everyone knows that a single individual's effort means nothing and that people can never change, but baby steps give everyone the delusion of progress.