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| Myra, The Storyteller |
My partner, Loeka has been pushing me for weeks to write an
op’ed, write a newsletter, write a blog, write, write, write…And what do you
think I’ve been saying. “I will one day.
I will as soon as I figure out how to start.”
And then I hear my words coming back at me, “start where you are”. Now some of you may be laughing because you
know I recently published my book Start Where You Are: My Journey from Childhood poverty to Passionate Entrepreneur. So I’ve
decided to address the question, everyone may ask themselves at some point in
their life, “Why should I start where I am?”
It is actually quite simple.
Start where you are because you cannot start anywhere else. In fact, I will go out on a limb and say, you
cannot start anywhere else. Do you know
anyone who started where they were not?
Can’t think of anyone can you?
Now unlike my partner, Loeka, I’m no genius but I do know this. You cannot start where you have never
been. You can read about places you’ve
never been. You can even write about places
far, far away. But just try if you must
to start somewhere you are not and you will experience what I experienced, disappointments,
disagreements, and depression. You see
we all want something to change. We want the
economy to change. We want our spouse to
change. We want our children to
change. The list goes on and on. Heck, we want the candidates to change. But what about wanting ourselves to change? Do we ever hunger for change in ourselves?
Do you want a better you? I learned
that if I wanted a better ME, then there were three things I had to do and the first is start where you are?
I will cover more about my start as well as the second and third things I learned in future updates so stay tuned. You might just be surprised at
what you learn.
