Starting over is hard.

Maybe you’ve been downsized; or you sold your business and now you’re bored; or your product launch tanked; or your business idea was a bust.

Maybe your portfolio was gutted by the market; or the relationship that you thought would last forever didn’t.

You want to start over. You need to start over.

But where do you begin?

You begin at the beginning.

Like when you first started out.

And yes, it sucks.

And will take a lot of time.

Two years ago, in the course of ramping up for an ultra-marathon, I suffered a running-related injury.

I couldn’t run.

For nearly a year, I didn’t run.

My baseline fitness level was being able to roll out of bed on any given Saturday morning and run 17 miles.

Not running left me discouraged, despondent, down, depressed, bereft. (Not to sugar-coat it.)

I’m back to running.

But it began with walking around the block; and then walking faster around the block; and then some light jogs in between the walking.

I can piece some miles together now.

Finally, I feel like a runner again.

But I needed to start over to get here.

And that meant small, slow, steady, consistent steps every day.

Yes, I hated it. But it feels so good to be back.

Regardless of where you are at, you can start again too.