A starting point is a place of origination, a place where one defaults to get a fresh beginning. A place where we pick ourselves up from. From time to time we find ourselves back to a certain starting point in our lives where we may or we may not have any control over. Just like the caption, a starting point is not a place but rather a mindset. A mindset is a perception and the question is always how is our mindset and our actions configured to ensure that they both correlate. When our mindset and our actions are agreeable into wanting to start, then there lies the actual starting point.
A starting point is like being on ground zero, where one begins from nothing and ending up with something. A ground zero is what people would often refer to as starting from scratch. When you are at your starting point a good number of times one may be in fear, fear of what if I don’t make it beyond ground zero? What if I am not able to accelerate as fast I would wish? What if I fail again?
Fear. Fear is what most of us have when we are faced with situations that call for us to start over. Nobody likes starting over, nobody likes rebuilding, and that is what usually stops our minds from thinking, from retrying or even from re figuring out. Whenever we start, we begin from either a point of failure, a point of re invention or a point of new beginnings. Where you have to build something from scratch. When you are starting out, a large portion of your mind may even be in disbelief that you can actually restore what was lost, or equally build the empire in your imagination.
I know how many times I have had to start, from incomplete projects or botched ones, projects that I put a hault on as a result of errors. Unforeseeable errors. Starting is not as bad as it may sound, because mostly we are always afraid of putting back the time and effort we used previously and we are maybe unsure of whether that will be restored. All I know is , with every starting point, you get a chance to re do something all over again, you become more inventfull and more cognisant of what not to do to avoid a similar failure. When you re do something you get a chance to learn from previous mistakes and hopefully make better choices the second time.
A starting point is the second chance that everyone is entitled to. When you get a second chance at something, it means that now you have obtained another opportunity to redeem yourself. You are even keener on looking out on what made you error in the first chance and use that opportunity to recover. Second chances are usually opportunities to remind us that we are still good. We could have made mistakes previously but we are still good. Good at what we do and life is giving us an opportunity to rebuild the trust or the idea we could have lost. A starting point is not a place, but rather the mindest, the mindset in choosing to believe that one can recover from anything that could have been lost if we put our minds and actions to them.
I don’t mind starting at any time, even at all costs. Because starting always assures me that I can only do better the next time. Starting also reminds me that I am still good but I can be better. Each one of us has that little voice that speaks to us, that says you got this, but many a times we choose not to listen to it, because we are afraid of failure, afraid of losing again, afraid that our seeds may not grow this time. Fear of the unknown is what hinders people from starting but what if you unlearn that starting all over is actually dealing with the known more than the unknown. Starting always gives one an advantage of now holding the steering even tighter knowing that holding it tighter gives you the confidence to keep on driving, and now driving even better.
Your starting point is your mindset, how many times you start does not mean that you are failure. It actually means that you now are looking to perfect. With every start, we are bound to either learn something new, or avoid making a previous mistake. We all have starting points, some start from their minds, some their hearts, some their homes, but at the end of the day, we all need to have that place where we are safe, safe to go back to the drawing board and start rebuilding.
The idea about starting is when you actually get to begin it, you wouldn’t want to stop. You get into a momentum, a rhythm that only you can sing along to. And this happens because you are either trying to prove to yourself that you got it this time, or believing that you learnt from the previous mistake and that is the drive you will always have to want to do better than before.
Whatever are your fears that are hindering you from going to your drawing board to start, just toss them aside and just get started.
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