Why is STARTING important?
If you don’t start, you’ll never finish.
Thinking, analyzing, and planning are good, but lead nowhere without accompanying action. To get things done, you need to do, move, engage.
How many times have you had a great idea that you never followed up on? The idea, without the follow-up, has no life or form. How often have you questioned your ability to accomplish something yet taken the first step anyway and found each succeeding step easier and easier as you grew closer to reaching your goal? To accomplish distant, long-term goals, you must first work on more immediately achievable, short-term objectives.
If you feel like you can’t get out of bed, and you lie there, minute after minute, hour after hour, motionless, contemplating all you have to do, the day isn’t going to be very productive. If you feel like you can’t get out of bed, but you make an effort to throw off the covers, you’re soon on your feet, ready to turn possibilities into probabilities and probabilities into realities.
Why start? Because you probably want more of something: more connectedness, skills, experiences, money, free time…And having or getting more requires action.
How to Start
Once you have devoted sufficient thought, analysis, and planning to your goal, it’s time to start doing.
This begs the question of what sufficient means in this context. Sufficient here implies that the following three issues have been addressed:
Once the goal or objective is clear, resources are sufficient, and you’re able to live with the risks inherent in what you’re about to begin, it’s time to plan out a sequence of steps to move in that direction.
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