Beginning Again

As an author, how many times do we begin again? How many times do we start over? We begin a project and get part way through and say "Nope, this doesn't work." We begin again. I am beginning this website, again. I do not have new stories or poetry under the name Davis anymore. I have gotten Married, another begin again beginning. I have begun a new career, as a copywriter. Another begin again beginning. My theme, I think for 2024, then end of 2023, begin again.

In life many people will tell others, don’t start over. It’s too difficult, you’re too old, you’ve got so much experience doing whatever. Don’t start over. They say it takes too much effort or time to start over. It is a waste of all the time and experience you have to start over. They don’t realize the reason for starting over, for beginning again.

You see I have discovered something with beginning again, or starting over. It is truly something anyone can do, at any point in time. As an author I cannot say how many times I have started over on a work in progress, or had to begin again, through no fault of my own. I have discovered the secret of this though, it really is amazing.  

Wait! There is a secret to beginning again? There is a secret to starting over? Yes! Yes, there is! Want to know what it is? I can tell you! It will change how you look at everything! I am warning you now. Once you embrace this secret, you will begin looking for ways and reasons to begin again, or start over, for everything!

Are you ready to hear it? Are you sure? If so, go ahead and read on. However, if you are even a little hesitant about starting anything over, or beginning anything again, don’t continue! Because, like I said, this secret will change how you look at everything. Got out of bed on the wrong side? No problem, go back to bed and begin the day again. Writing an email that just is not sounding right? No problem! Start over, begin again, make it even better than before.

Now this secret that is going to change how you look at everything, it’s not really a secret. It’s knowledge! Knowledge is dangerous, or so they say. They may very well be correct. This knowledge can alter everything. This knowledge pertains to why beginning again or starting over is seen as a bad thing, but is really not.

Are you really ready for this changing knowledge? Ok, here it is! This powerful, life altering, changing knowledge is so amazing, you may wonder why you had not thought of it yourself. Here is the secret knowledge you have been eager to learn. This knowledge is perspective. Perspective? You are wondering about why it is perspective. It is your own perspective. It is how you look at things. If you look at beginning something again as a bad thing, instead of a change to do better, then it is indeed bad. Yet, if you embrace is as a chance to excel, better than before, why is that a bad thing?

Again, it is not something everyone thinks about, yet it is so powerful. It is how your mindset prepares you for the tasks ahead. If you look at starting over as something bad, not only are you more likely to not enjoy the tasks, you may not do as well as you could. Your perspective affects everything around you. It is the filter through which you see life. If you see it as a burden and something to just get over, you will never do well or exceed in the things needing to be completed.

The next time you are tasked with starting over, or beginning again, take a moment to pause, take a breath, get your bearings, assess your surroundings and your perspective. Then once you have made the shift to the mindset of this is a bonus to do even better than before, begin again and excel at your tasks.