Where to start?

Question for the centuries. I think all new ventures start with this basic premise 'where do I start'. Say you want to become a doctor, you ask yourself "Where do I start?" easily answered by saying go to college then to medical school. But what if your question of where to start is more vague like 'I want to see the wonders of the world'. Both are obtainable but where one has a more direct path usually the other is, well, vague. For both you prep and plan but I think more people would be able to achieve becoming a doctor than fulfilling a dream of going all around the world. Then the next question is why are they so different?

Really there is no difference, both require money and time, as well as sacrifice of oneself to other opportunities such as families. How does this relate to myself, well I'm a structured type a person. For years I've gotten up at the same time, read the paper with coffee and cereal and lived a very 9:00 to 5:00 lifestyle - the Doctor route, predictable, planned and straightforward. Now during middle age I want to explore and not be routine. I think this will be as easy as a pig flying but determination and persistence will hopefully prevail in my changing.

I think the obvious answer of where to start is where do you want to end. Maybe if the goal is written with more a backtracking approach is becomes a reality. They (who ever 'they' are) have always said that imagery is very powerful and if you clip pictures from books and magazines of the things you want it will help you obtain them. I think I will find pictures of book covers and post them all over my bathroom mirror.

To be fair to myself I have already written 50 pages of my future best selling novel but most brilliant ideas come in the shower or as I am falling asleep. Now I know most people would say get up and go write them down, my problem is I have old timers, meaning by the time I get to a piece of paper I have forgotten the brilliant ideas. I won't begin to tell the problems when I am in the shower.

When I think of my story line and characters I get a smile on my face and get excited for the adventure, but putting it into words with a, the, and ands makes it frustrating. A person like myself with ADD really hates having to put down all the extras but as I mentioned I'm a person who likes routine so that makes me also obsessive compulsive which means I have to make sure I spell correctly and look for mistakes while thinking in triple time. This is not a winning combination for a writer.

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The question now for myself is not where to start but what is the next step.