I learned to use the past if I couldn’t forget it. I wish I had started sooner, but I wouldn’t be who I am today without those experiences.
So was it truly wasted?
I don’t think so.
That high esteem I talked about earlier is a product of my ability to start from the beginning. Thinking about beginning’s makes my knees shake. It’s frustrating. And it seems like it’s going to take you forever to build something new. But you have to get comfortable with it because there is no other way.
Every time I start a new story, I start from scratch. Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like I ever was a beginner writer, but I was. I had zero readership when I started, and now I have a growing audience. I’ve written multiple books over the years beginning with zero words.
You start from scratch, and you remain consistent. Learning to handle boredom is not fun, but consistency is the unsexy path to getting pretty much anything you want. You just have to be patient but work like hell.
Recently in my journal, I’ve been asking myself if I continue on the path I’m on now, where will I be in five years. Look at where you’re at in your life right now and extrapolate that out into the future. Do you like what you see? Take some time to look at that future with a level of brutal honesty that might terrify you. Do not shy away from reality. Something I’ve done many times in my less enlightened past.
Hope is not a strategy, so expecting things will just click eventually will not work.
If you’re going in the wrong direction, you need to start from scratch. Revaluate where you are now, no matter how low and go again.
Believe in yourself. This time you have learned from your mistakes, so reinventing yourself will be swift and permanent. Cut out negative influences, upgrade your mindset, take more focused actions on the things that matter most, and you’ll be glad you decided to start from scratch again.
From zero to hero.
