start from where you're at

I used to have a habit of organizing everything around me before starting anything new. This approach seemed effective when tasks were manageable - when everything could be sorted out in a day with minimal effort. However, as I found myself in situations with endless incoming tasks, I began to question this approach. This compulsion to understand and organize everything was actually hindering my progress.

Each day is like a train about to depart. Our opportunities to board are limited, and once missed, they don't come back. In such situations, we face two choices: we can either wait on the platform, trying to perfect our plans, checking if we've forgotten anything, questioning if this journey is really necessary, or we can simply board the train and start moving.

We live in a complex system where complete prediction is impossible. More importantly, in this complexity, you can only see the doors behind the first door after you've opened it. We often try to predict the arrangement of all doors before opening the first one, attempting to bet on these predictions. But this is not only impossible - it's futile.

Sometimes, our habit of wanting to perfectly organize chaotic situations before starting becomes a trap. Life always carries a certain level of entropy. If we wait for perfect organization, we might never start at all.

Surprisingly, many things only fall into place after we begin. Many issues we thought were crucial either resolve themselves through action or turn out to be far less important than we imagined. Conversely, truly important matters naturally emerge during the process of doing.

Currently practicing the art of just starting. And I'm finding it quite satisfying.