I’m getting so many nuggets from Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. This nugget is about “stop waiting until you’re ready.” Yep, just start. She uses the example of a child learning to walk. Lots of trial and error. Success, falls, cry and back at it. Children do not decided today is the day I’m walking and get up and do it! No they try it again and again.
So why do we feel that to start something new we have to be expects at it? Or if we don’t know how to do it we can’t start. Hmm… isn’t that part of the process? Learning to do it by starting to do it. Failing and restarting it again with more knowledge than we had before. Taking what we have learnt and incorporating that into the next round? Not worrying about step nine before we start step one.
Any class we take – dance, pottery, Nordic walking we have to start as beginners. We have to be okay not knowing how to finish step five. To fail at step two. To learn and start again. This is sort of another form of perfectionism. If we can’t do it perfectly what is the point. The point is the majority of us can’t do it perfectly so does that mean we don’t take the chance and start? So we don’t take a pottery class. A dance class. A computer science class. Because….. we’re not perfect. OMG correct we’re not.
So don’t let not knowing how to do step five or nine stop you from starting step one. Being unprepared is okay and part of learning. It doesn’t matter is we don’t know all the steps we will learn along the way, but only it we start.
You can always start now!
Well said Ms You Can Always start now. I’d rather say I tried and failed than to regret never have tried in the first place 🙂
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Me too. I think we regret what we haven’t tried not what we have failed at.
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I have always thought about this – that children are the true examples of fearlessness. And that if we need to be childlike in order to get things done.
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I think just realizing falling and/or failure is okay. That is it part of the process and not something to be feared. To accept that it will happen as it is suppose to and that is okay. I hope that made sense!! Thanks for visiting.
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Yes that true, if we think we can or we cannot we won’t. be able to do that task. Things happen naturally we just need concentration. I loved the example of a child how he learns to work and very true there is no age to learn anything. It just waits for us to start.
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I do think we have to change our relationship to failure. To make it part of the process not the end result. Turn it into a learning moment. Failure gives us something to work with – again part of the process. Oh life would be easier to have it as a friend.
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I wrote about this very thing recently. With writing, I know that I can’t wait for the “muse” before I start. I just need to start. But, I was doing just that–waiting until I felt just right–before singing, a hobby I love. Had to shake myself out of it. I’ve gotten to a point during this isolation, where I know when I’m just making excuses to be lazy. And there’s not enough time for that!
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I agree time is going by with or without out us. I want to come out of this isolation knowing I made the most out of it. Reading, creating and learning. 2020 is happening even if I stay home and do the right thing I can still create and hopefully take something away from it. No excuses! Just do it – we have to make something positive out of 2020.
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You’re always a voice for positivity–I appreciate it!
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This is so true. I am hearing so many people say ‘When this is over I am going to start this/do this/do that’
Why wait? Life is there to be grabbed, never fear failure, ever!
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I agree just do it (if possible). Life is passing whether we seize it or not. I seriously want something to show at the end of this. Hoe you and family are safe and take care.
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Fresh starts are my favorite. I love the first days of a news job. I love the first few days of motherhood – these are best days. Great post. Fresh starts – love it!
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thank you. I’m a work in progress on so many things. It is mainly about limiting regrets so “not being readY’ can’t be an excuse.
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