How might one eat an elephant? (A Whole ELEPHANT?!?) The standard response to that question is, "Only one bite at a time!" It's the same with any large task, really. Taken all-at-once it may possibly be overwhelming. Break it down into parts, steps or sub-tasks, and each one of these is not nearly so formidable. The steps will be smaller. They will each be easy enough and "do-able". And when you get all of them done, why, you will see that you have accomplished the whole large task. That's just ...