It’s okay to stop and start, and stop, and start, as long as you keep starting.

How do I start writing something without hating my own words once again stating something along the lines of I have been struggling to write, or to find my voice or blah blah blah. I have written words of a similar vein so many times that I question the validity of them myself sometimes, but they are right and true. 

I took a step back from coaching, from writing, from even keeping my website up to date for about a year now. A website I have continued to pay for because maybe, just maybe, tomorrow will be the day that I find my mojo and decide to return to coaching. I am not saying tomorrow has arrived necessarily or that I am fully all in once again, but I am making a start.

I am making a start and writing about it, and I will cringe when I post this, I will project ideas and thoughts on to the reader (if there are any readers) about how once again here I am writing about “starting again” when in reality no one really cares. 

That’s the thing with progress, no one else really sees how many times you stop and start, and neither do they care. Your journey is your own, if you need to stop and start, and stop and start, a few times then that's the path you need to take there is no one else who can know that better than you. 

I did need to stop for a bit. I did need to take a minute because my life required focus. I still feel like I haven’t found my feet fully yet, and that’s okay. But one thing I do know is that I learned a lot during the time that I “stopped” so did I really actually stop? That’s the other thing, sometimes you are making progress even when it doesn’t feel like it, or you can’t see it. Sometimes just knowing when to stop is the progress you needed. 

So, if you need to stop, or start right now there’s nothing wrong with either.