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Your Future Self Will Thank You For What You Start Today
But you must start off the right way.
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb
What have you been dreaming of starting?
What have you been putting off?
What idea have you been eager to make a reality?
What action have you known in your gut you want to take?
Now let me ask: what are you waiting for?
Sometimes it’s good to wait, such as when you’re waiting for the extra money from your tax returns to invest in something promising instead of digging into your emergency fund or worse, debt.
But most things are put off to their detriment. Too often we wait for a time, a circumstance, a moment that may never come, when we really should be making life happen every single day.
“I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards.” ―Alberto Salazar
Starting today, starting now, is one of the best things we can do for our dreams, for it makes us get over that fear of starting in the first place!
Start writing. Start reading. Start studying that subject. Start making those calls. Start reaching out. Start asking. Start those exercises. Start that blog. Just start — because nothing else matters if you don’t!
But there’s also the matter of starting properly — another pitfall many trip themselves up in.
In a world that’s obsessed with instant fame, instant success, instant money, instant everything, it’s become harder to start something new without either feeling like a failure right off the bat or never getting into the flow because of unrealistic expectations.
Unrealistic is not a word I like to use often, since what most people think is realistic is the same old boring, mediocre life, but at the same time, starting something new — investing, a sport, a craft, a skill — and then expecting to be a quick guru like so and so or to expect things to be effortless because that’s what X or Y person on YouTube did, is an excellent way to start something you’ll never follow through and never…
