Is there a point in starting if you don’t know how to get to the end?

We were packing the boxes. We were moving from my favourite apartment in Bondi Beach.

I put numbers on the boxes and had the content of the boxes written in my notes: box number and a list of what’s inside. The title of the note was: Moving from STM to ??? STM stood for the street name we were moving out. 

I had no idea where or when we would be moving in again.

We went to the Gold Coast to renovate an apartment over there. Then another. Then we moved about 20 times in the last three years. For different reasons.

Finally, at the end of March, we got the unit in Bondi Beach again. And we finally unpacked.

What I wondered was this: would I be able to make that move if I knew what would happen in these three years? Would I even start?  If I knew I would not have a kitchen for weeks (combined), no idea what my address will be in 3 months, electricity on and off, plastic instead of the ceiling, no water, and “sorry, can’t use the toilet until 4pm”.

It would have been a thousand times harder.

But we made it in the end, one step at a time. We’ve done what we planned, built when we didn’t and fixed what had to be fixed.

So what do you want to make happen, but maybe unsure how to get to the end? 

You don’t have to see the whole picture but you need to take the first step. 

Unfold your mat and follow a 10-minute yoga from YouTube, pack a box, pick up a brush, or buy a ticket to the city you want to move to. Feels too big a step? Make it smaller.

What have you been thinking of doing for a long time? What can be your first small step?

It is one of my favourite quotes:

“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step”

~ Martin Luther King Jr