The Subtle Art of Starting Over


I don’t know about you but I’m a sucker for a good beginning.The opening chapter of a book. A beautiful sunrise.The bride walking down the aisle. The father holding up his infant son.The 18-year old heading cross country on a road trip.It’s that fresh smell of a new car. That first day of spring feeling.It’s Monday, the first of the month and January 1st all rolled into one golden opportunity to create the world as you wish.A good beginning is like an unwrapped gift. It holds promise, hope and possibility.Of course, for every rosy-eyed beginning, there is another, far more ominous beginning. It’s the one that makes us weak in the knees and fills us with terror and uncertainty.It’s called Starting Over.I know from a purely semantic point of view, starting over sounds an awful lot like your average beginning. But, if you’ve ever had to start over from scratch, you know as well as I do that it has a whole other vibe to it.Starting over is often the “do-over” we never saw coming. It’s the nasty beginning we feel is being shoved down our throats. A hurricanes ravages our home. We have to start over. We lose our job or our business fails. We have to start over. Divorce. Start over. Become ill. Start over.In today’s world, starting over is no longer an anomaly. It’s a commonplace reality of life. We are constantly being called upon to pull up our boots, get back into the game and build up our life all over again.It’s a punch in the gut. And it can be tiring...
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