Start Where You Are

Start where you are. You cannot change the past. You cannot go back to the beginning and restart from there. All that you can do is begin anew from wherever you are now.

In life you will experience repeated failures, false starts, faulty plans, and approaches that don’t get the results that you desire. This is inevitable. This is a part of life.

There is no reason to bemoan this condition, because it is part of the path. Accept it, and learn to respond better to these obstacles that come your way. When you fail at an attempt, when your plan doesn’t work perfectly, when you start and falter — this is fine. It happens to everybody.

Pick yourself back up, and start where you are now. This is all that you can do. This is all that you need to do. The experience of the fall is what you need, because it is teaching you something important. You still possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you had before.

Pick yourself up again, and again, and again — as many times as necessary. Use what you have and have learned to do better this time. Start from where you are now, and improve. Build on what you have, accumulate more of what you need, and challenge yourself with new ideas, experiences, skills, and systems to help you to get to where you want to go.

Start From Where You Are Now, Build The Future

Too many people remain stuck in the past. They are fixated on what has already happened, on the fact that their road has been far from perfect. All of the decisions that we could have made differently, the course that we would chart with what we know now.

The thing is that with what we know now, we can make a dramatic difference in what we bring to fruition in the coming months and years. We know better now than we did five years ago. Sure, if we could go back to the beginning, we would play a perfect game — at least we think that we would. With hindsight we see our mistakes clearly. But it is wishful thinking to believe that we could avoid every obstacle if we were to do it all over again.

Instead, start where you are now, at whatever age you are, and build something you are passionate about. Build a future that you genuinely desire. And most importantly, learn to do so. Learn what you need to.

There is no point in wanting to start again at the beginning, because it will never happen. Instead, write your story consciously from where you are now, and make it epic. Make it so glorious, and beautiful, that it gives meaning to everything that has happened to you in the past. That is gives value to every mistake that you have made.

Start where you are now.