Embracing the beginning

There is value in the start of any long journey

While growing up, I desired so much to be grown up. I had this drive to earn money, support my parents and do the things I wanted to do, when I wanted to do, how I wanted to do it. I remember the drive I had. I remember the one thing that mattered was to not be where I was in that moment. To be as far away from the beginning as possible.

Looking back that desire drove me. It gave me the energy to work many hours, almost without a life outside school. But that drive also made me resent where I was and what I was doing. Earning small amounts of money here and there. Still studying. Still living at home. All of those things in so many words I despised. It was the beginning, a means almost to the end. Through it all, as crazy as it sounds I didn't feel I was succeeding. It more felt I was trying to get to the start line.

What I mean is that although I was growing, I was becoming, I was succeeding, I didn't see it that way. I saw it more as getting to the point where I can start to reach my potential. The way I saw it, was that I was escaping the constrains of my environment to be free enough to truly become. Although at the time that felt true and there is no denying that this desire pushed me. I realised now that I still bring this mindset with me to the beginning of every new journey I go on today.

The anxiety of the beginning still remains. The desire to move past the beginning as soon as possible remains. And that feeling that was once driving is debilitating. Running a startup now, the beginning feels like trying to prove I can get to medical school but starting from primary school. When in fact, there is so value in the beginning. There is so much to embrace and get right about the beginning. To try and skip steps and artificially accelerate progress is to build on unstable ground.

Essentially in my life today. I am learning for the first time to embrace the beginning. Where every decision has never been made before. Where mistakes and failure will happen often. Where the signals of success are few if any.

Embracing the start of any long journey as much as the end is the lesson I have come to understand this year in order to become and do anything of importance. To create anything of meaning - growth and development needs to be invested in. Everything big started small.

To overlook the beginning is to not make full use of that stage on the journey. The beginning is when you have the greatest license to make mistakes, to experiment, to follow an idea just because you can. It's the best moment to build the habits and invest in the mindset that will increase the chance of success and overcome the failures that will come your way. Embracing the beginning allows success to last longer.

Imagine any story without the beginning!

In all areas of my life, I am learning to embrace the beginning as much as the rest of the journey whether starting a new product at Suvera to starting a new day or a new year.  There is so much to embrace from beginning. And by doing so, I’ve learnt it makes end so much more fulfilling.

For me, this is more than the beginner’s mindset this is the beginner’s embrace…