Your right for the most part. The thing you call "you" doesn't actually do it, in the same scene you don't move your body. When you move, you nudge a request to your sub-conscious which relays that request to the central nervous system. Telekinesis is the same way (although I'm not to sure it involves the nervous system
). So yes it is like a baby learning to move.
The difference is the baby is assisted by reflexes which display how it should go about it when it's just born, telekinesis you have to keep trying different ways of sending the request until you get it. Once you get it once lock onto the feeling you get, if you memorize what I call the "TK reflex" you will be able to do it again later.
This may just be superstition but many people note that potassium, glucose, and some caffeine have positive effects on tk, just something to note.
There is a lot more I could explain, but you don't want to overwhelm yourself with information about it before you learn. Don't be like the nerd who tries to get good at sports by learning the rules, you will get all your experience though practice.
And remember this is so worth it, learning and getting good at TK is considered one of the requirement for going form beginner to intermediate.
Just to list a site or two you might be interested in...
//www.psipog.net
//www.thepsionguild.net
http://www.fourmilab.com/rpkp/experiments/
http://www.wintersteel.com/Telekinesis.html
http://www.psiarcade.com/garden/
http://home.xtra.co.nz/hosts/Wingmakers/Contents.html
Be persistent, and good luck

The difference is the baby is assisted by reflexes which display how it should go about it when it's just born, telekinesis you have to keep trying different ways of sending the request until you get it. Once you get it once lock onto the feeling you get, if you memorize what I call the "TK reflex" you will be able to do it again later.
This may just be superstition but many people note that potassium, glucose, and some caffeine have positive effects on tk, just something to note.
There is a lot more I could explain, but you don't want to overwhelm yourself with information about it before you learn. Don't be like the nerd who tries to get good at sports by learning the rules, you will get all your experience though practice.
And remember this is so worth it, learning and getting good at TK is considered one of the requirement for going form beginner to intermediate.
Just to list a site or two you might be interested in...
//www.psipog.net
//www.thepsionguild.net
http://www.fourmilab.com/rpkp/experiments/
http://www.wintersteel.com/Telekinesis.html
http://www.psiarcade.com/garden/
http://home.xtra.co.nz/hosts/Wingmakers/Contents.html
Be persistent, and good luck