The first step to success The most difficult thing in life is to ‘start’ something. Once you cross that barrier you’ll see the other obstacles less threatening. When I thought about starting this blog, as one would always do, I went through a few other blogs (I could technically call it my ‘research’ phase and make it sound fancy). After my research phase was done, which was the easiest part, I opened up a page on my notepad and stared at it for a few minutes with a lot of thoughts and questions in my mind. ‘My first blog should be the best’, ‘what if my first ever blogging effort look bad’ ‘what if I make a lot of mistakes’. The two main challenges that I faced was
1. I wasn’t confident.
2. I was more worried about the impression I would create in somebody else’s mind.
Often, these are the main factors that hinder our success. But this time, I decided to question the very factors that troubled my mind.
A. I am not confident because I don’t have much knowledge about the subject.
Me: what is the worst that can happen here?
Mind: I might write something really stupid.
Me: And how is it going to affect you.
Mind: someone might make fun of me.
Me: Will it affect you.
Mind: Well, it won’t.
Me: Then why worry. Write a set of mistakes and modify it later.
B. What will people think?
Me: what is the worst that can happen here?
Mind: someone might make fun of me.
Me: Will it affect you?
Mind: Well, it won't.
Me: Then why worry. Just get started.
This mind-&-me conversation, as easy as it might seem, took me over a month to get it out of my system. And I finally gathered all my courage and managed to cross the first barrier.
I read and re-read, the very sentences you have been reading, over and over again and each time I modified. In this journey of creating my first page, I felt that as a beginner it was better to make mistakes initially than later on.
