The roots of both success and failure inhere in beginnings. You can, of course, make a good ending of a bad start, but over time and in aggregate things tend to flow naturally from their starting points.
The task is not to add skill, but rather to deduct what is unnecessary, until all that remains is effectiveness. The seed of any beginning is who you are, what you have made of yourself. Better seeds create better beginnings and hence better endings.
To grow as a person, is to grow in effectiveness.