The hardest part is getting started. Or finding out how to get started. I’ve been so sheltered my whole life. So dependent on my husband and others. It’s like the world’s been whizzing around outside my house (for the past 30 years!) and I’ve been hanging relatively close to home, taking care of the minute details and daydreaming about taking on the world. But now I come out of this cage (rather – I’m preparing to come out of this cage, because I’m going to have to) and I’m looking around and it’s all noise to me and I want to jump in but I’m can’t find how or where.
I’m a musician, and a pampered one. I have my own studio that my husband put together for me, but I only know how to do the basics – enough to record my parts and then bring my hard drive over to his studio, where he does all the real production and engineering.
A friend of mine asked me to play some keyboard parts on his album, so I went over to his home studio yesterday, ready to work. He had asked me to bring the most basic cables over, to hook into his system. We had the hardest time hooking things up, because I didn’t really know how my gear was supposed to connect. He was asking me all these technical questions and all I could say was “I don’t know. Mom always drives.”
We eventually figured it out. But it was such a simple thing that shouldn’t’ve been so hard. There are so many these things I want to get into now, and I don’t know where to start.
I recently read a few books on stock trading and understood a lot of the theory and got very excited and couldn’t wait to get started. Then after the initial excitement wore off, I realized, how/where do I start? (to open an account, ok? That’s the level I’m at.
How do you do that?). Everything starts with the assumption that you already know something. I went to some of the online sites to learn how to analyze and pick stock, I tried reading INVESTORS DAILY. It might as well have been written in Chinese. I believe there’s a whole library of Dummies books out there waiting for me.
I’m really trying to dive into that swimming pool, all my intentions are there. But first I have to wade down the baby steps. No, first I have to find out where the swimming pool is.
