18. Why You Should Start Before You Have It Figured Out

Takeaways: 

You need enough foundational knowledge to know what the first steps are going to be, but you don’t have to plan out every single step of the entire process in your mind before you ever start. 

What we think of as possible or achievable changes depending on where we’re at in life. Once you start the journey working towards what you want to do, the options available to you start expanding.  

You can’t “think” your way into knowing how it’s going to feel for you and whether you actually enjoy doing the thing. Start small so you can fail small, and pivot as necessary. You don’t know where those beginning steps are going to take you. 

You can’t plan for everything because you don’t know what you don’t know. You might find a niche you didn’t know existed, or new ways of doing things that you would have never discovered if you hadn’t gotten your foot in the door. 

Failure is not when something doesn’t meet your expectations, failure is when you stop trying. Mistakes are part of the process. They’re a byproduct of trying something new.