There’s a reason you’ve never started that big project. There’s a reason you’ve never built your side hustle, written a comic book, started a company, sold T-shirts, self published epic fantasy novels or founded a VC firm.It’s the same again for anything you want to do. You know that the road is long, and there are too many variables, and when you start to think about it you lose your way and end up caught in a freezing point of inactivity.Whatever shape your first action or your first step takes, it just has to happen. Otherwise, you’ll never get around to it, and you’ll always be terrified of the unknowns, the to-do lists and the processes, systems and challenges that you’re yet to encounter.You start at the beginning of the trail. You put one foot in front of the other.
It’s because doing those is recognisably tough, and you understand and accept that there are a thousand things you don’t know about them. And you can’t figure out where to start.