How To Relaunch Your Life in the Right Direction by Thinking Like a Beginner

I knew I needed to change my life into something entirely new and amazing.

But I was stuck. I was using the standard approaches and therefore kept coming up with possibilities that weren’t amazing and didn’t feel right for me.

They were the same old…same old just with a different wrapper.

They weren’t even pivots, let alone transformations.

I needed to take an entirely different approach. So, I thought like a beginner.

The result: I found a New Way Forward and transformed into something beyond expectations.

Change from the beginning

It all started with a quote from Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Planck:

“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”

I knew I had to change the way I looked at myself, life and the world to find a New Way Forward that would be ideal for me.

But how could I dump all the baggage from my life?

The self-limiting beliefs. The habitual thoughts and reactions seared into my subconsciousness.

Then it hit me. What if I ditched all of that by believing I was at the beginning of my life?

What if I created a mindset that my life is beginning right now?

What if I thought of this, not as a change but a total, even radical new beginning?

Like I am a teenager who magically had all of the wisdom I have accrued in the years since but was thinking anew.

A fresh start! No. It’s more than that. It’s a whole new beginning.

“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened and it has just begun!” – C. Joybell??

Yes! That’s it!

It’s not a new chapter, it’s a new book but with a recurring character who happens to be me.

I can bring all my talent, experience and ability to the new book.

But I can create an entirely new plot line. One that fits the fundamental desires and needs I have for my life now and to my death (unless I want to write yet another book).

I can even evolve myself as the main character into the person I want to be.

“A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the (person) you want to become and start being the (person) you want to be.” — Bruce Springsteen

This is so basic, so foundational, so critical and………….SO EXCITING!

"What a seductive belief—that one can start fresh simply by jettisoning one’s history, that one can leave all that is painful or unsavory behind." – Susan Rebecca White

This is about forsaking those things in my past that don’t work for me.

My self-limitations, my cringe-worthy memories, my mega-mistakes, my doubts and fears based on old or false beliefs. Instead, I swept them away and focused on my new story and the new circumstances in it.

Yes, the lessons learned from all of that remained apparent. They became useful when I treated them as learnings from a textbook.

I also ditched the future I had planned (assumed) so I could make room for a better one.

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” — Joseph Campbell

I went from viewing myself and my life through the narrow hole in a toilet paper roll to the view atop Mt. Everest.

I still get goosebumps when I think of this. It may seem a subtle shift in consciousness but it’s not. It’s HUGE.

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It can be HUGE for you

Have you ever wished you could go back in life and do things differently?

Especially those moments that determined your future, your life and the person you are now that you’re not happy with?

Sorry. You can’t.

BUT!!!

This can be that moment in your life when you can make a decision and make a change that your future self will look upon and be grateful for.

You can start from the beginning and that beginning is now.

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato

How to begin the new beginning

1.??????? I challenged my assumptions and beliefs. Where attention goes focus flows. I started identifying each old piece of baggage that was holding me back, weighing me down or that I just didn’t need.

This allowed me to see where my roadblocks and limiting beliefs were.

Imposter Syndrome? My new beginning allows me to think of myself as the best person in the world to do what I am going to do.

Old self-limiting beliefs? Those were the former me, not the new me.

2.??????? Being as basic as possible. I had to create a foundation and filter for all my ideas and possibilities so I would only consider those that would be truly right for me.

I decided how I wanted to feel every morning when I woke up. What did I want to be grateful for that I and only I was responsible for?

My list was super basic such as I am in great health, I love what I am doing, I am not worried about money and the like.

If one of my new ideas didn’t align with each of those intentions, it got trashed.

3.??????? I picked and chose the best parts of my character from my previous books. Let’s be practical. I still am who I am, and I’ve done what I’ve done.

But I can bring the best parts of my experience, talent, wisdom, heart and personality to my new life and book.

What helped me was looking through the lens of gratitude. What was I most grateful for from big to small?

“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are?grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” – Germany Kent

Courage, excitement, optimism

All of this gave me the foundation to launch myself in the right direction and be unencumbered by the same old thinking that drove me to a need for change.

It was morning in my life. It can be this way for you.

Like it did for me, this can give you the excitement, confidence and the courage to find and pursue your New Way Forward.

This is the key to changing your life into something entirely new and amazing.

To launch it in the right direction.

If you’ll just begin from your new beginning.

“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma

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