I have a confession to make...ahem, ummmm...errrrrrr

I start my bike with my butt in the saddle. Full in the saddle, with just the tippy-toes of one foot on the ground. This actually works, but it makes me unbalanced and it slows down my starting stroke.

The problem is that my body just does not seem to want to start properly. I understand the concept well enough - stand over the bars, bring one pedal up to about 10:00 or so, stand on that pedal with a foot to get things rolling while raising myself into the saddle and finding the other pedal. I see people doing this all of the time....but I just can't seem to trust myself to that pedal stroke.

Is this just weird, or have others had this problem? If you have, how did you solve it? Now I am getting out and playing in traffic I really need to have a more controlled start-up and this is certainly a large part of that.