Why is it SO hard to start something new? It all comes down to how we label the world around us and how we've labeled ourselves. Let's break it down.
We all have our own individual perspectives and outlooks that shape the way we see the world. This perspective leads us to create labels, which we then attach meaning to. We label everything around us in our own unique way and associate different meanings with different words.
If I say 'think of a pet', what comes to mind? For me, it's my dogs. For you, maybe it's a cat or a bird. It's the same word, and neither way you or I define it is right or wrong, but it's important to understand that you've associated that word with something personal from your life. That same word will hold a different meaning based on our own unique experiences.
This can become a problem of sorts when we're trying to start something new. Because the thing is, whatever we are trying to become is something we've already attached a label to. And what is so crucial to changing is (1) recognizing that existing label and (2) understanding what you already associate with that label.
My personal example starts when I first decided to teach Video Marketing and become a coach. The word 'coach' was something I really struggled to call myself, simply because I had only ever known one particular type of coach for years: an athletic coach.
My boyfriend is a swim coach, everyone calls him coach, it's his occupation: he's a coach. So for years, the idea of a coach to me was a man, specifically him, standing on a pool deck in a giant sunhat creating workouts and managing athletes.
That couldn't be further from what I was trying to do! I was trying to build a business online to teach entrepreneurs how to get confident on-camera and take videos.
For the first several months of being in business, I called myself a 'strategist', because the label of a coach felt so distant from me and what I was trying to accomplish. This all came down to my own personal perspective and associations I already unknowingly had with that word.
To become a coach, I had to re-associate that word for myself. It took months for me to broaden my sights and recognize there's a whole wide world of coaches out there, not just the kind on a pool deck.
The next thing that keeps us stuck when we're trying to start something new is not knowing where to start. So, let me give you two ways you can start on your next new and exciting thing today.

1. Find someone that's doing what you want to do successfully, and get as close to them as possible! Get on their email list, listen to their content, find them on social media. Absorb their likeness and examine what they've built to prove to yourself that it is possible.
2. Get into a group of people in a similar space you're in to help pull you forward. In a group setting, you'll have some people ahead of you and others that just started today. It allows you to progress, receive feedback, and see that even if you don't have anyone in your immediate circle, there are people going through the same thing as you.

Do not underestimate the power of encouragement.
Do not underestimate the power of a good coach or mentor.
Do not underestimate the power of having a peer going through what you are.
Embrace these new beginnings. I'm rooting for you.
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