How to Start When You Don’t Know How To

When faced with needing to make a drastic change, it may be difficult to know how to start. You may not know the ultimate outcome, even. You don’t have to. You start with what is in front of you… or in my case, using yoga analogy, just focus on one pose at a time. Bianca Bass explains well.

Way too often, we don’t start things because we can’t get our minds round the WHOLE thing. We don’t take the first step because we can’t figure out the seventeenth step.

But you don’t need to know the seventeenth step. You only need to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1.

That’s where you start. With 1.

It’s too overwhelming otherwise. It’s too easy to be caught up in endless thoughts: what if step 4 doesn’t work? Or what if there isn’t money for step 11? What if people don’t like the results of step 6?

You have no idea what the answers are to any those questions .

The only thing that wondering and speculating will do is separate you from the present moment.

When you begin, the seventeenth step is sixteen steps away. You don’t have to know how to do it, or what it is, or even when it is.

Because the first number is always 1.

It’s not 5, then 8, then 24 then 62.7

It’s 1, then 2, then 3…

Your 1 may be making a phone call or an appointment or filling out a form — it may be a fairly simple task and yet it may seem like the biggest, most impossibly massive task in the world. This is totally normal.

To do anything new — to do the 1 — requires tremendous mental fortitude to not think about 2 or 7 yet.

That time will come. And it is not now.

Now is the time for 1.