When facing an opportunity to make a change in our lives we usually have two options:  to orchestrate a big, sweeping, dramatic shift or to take small, incremental steps of progress in the desired direction.  There are certainly merits to both approaches and the ultimate efficacy of either is dependent upon our own proclivities, the nature of the change that we are tasked with, and the circumstances and other constraints surrounding it.  There are many cases where people have been struck by a lightning bolt, new insight, or deep conviction which caused them to instantaneously start or stop doing something virtually overnight and never look back.  A new idea completely…