When I considered starting a blog, it seemed overwhelming. In my mind, I knew it’d be another way to market ubeu®, and it would help me sort out my ideas about writing that book that everyone’s been pestering me about. But finding the time, knowing what I really wanted to achieve, and trusting that I could do it were pretty stymieing.
Sound familiar? Starting any new project is a lot like deciding to get organized. You don’t know where to start. You doubt your abilities to keep it up. You listen to all the tapes that you’ve told yourself---or others have told you---and it’s very easy to stop, delay, postpone, or go grab another Diet Coke.
When I got the email from my web developer, Joe, that the blog page was up, my heart just about stopped. It was show time. It was go time, as in get organized. Like getting organized, I’d been planning this for months in my mind, ruminating and frustrated that it hadn’t happened yet, worrying what boat I was missing. It was on my to-do list, yet I just didn’t have a reason to start.
But sometimes, we have to just start. Whether someone switches on a green light for us, like my web developer or whether we just get so sick of ourselves, our desks, the path to the bathroom, etc., there comes a time when we must act. It’s go time. G.O. time.
A lot of the reason why we want to get organized is to take better care of ourselves. The steps to that outcome can take many forms, from simply setting down your keys in the same place every time to a full-on excavation of the piles on your desk. Remembering the big picture can be a great motivator.
So you’re not alone. Many of us are afraid of starting something because it seems overwhelming. Have the big picture in mind, find what motivates you, and just start.