Growth hurts more than staying stuck, but the discomfort means it's working. You'll uncover new layers of challenge just when you think you're done, and that's the point. You need time, focus, and people around you.
The pain of staying stuck is always worse, though, than the fear of getting started. Now, that fear that you're feeling, that's real, because growth can be scary, especially when we don't understand it, and if we don't have some guidance, and if we don't have a community to experience it with. But here's the truth: growth isn't clean or convenient. It can get a little messy. It can get emotional. And it will get personal. It takes time. It takes focus. It takes commitment. It'll illuminate parts of you that haven't been exposed in years. And just when you think you might be done, you're going to get hit by another layer you didn't know was there. But it's okay. That's how it's supposed to feel. You're normal. If it's hard, if it's uncomfortable, if it makes you start asking questions, that's when you know that it's working.
