Sometimes you have to ride it out. Even if you know you need to change. Part of you also knows that this is working for the time being. It’s a tough decision, but it’s yours to make. Whatever you decide, ride it out. See it through until the end. It’s the only chance you got at learning something new. It’s your last puzzle piece. You have to see things through until the end. Finish this new project you started. I want you to memorize this feeling. This grind every day to do it all over again. Feel it because we’re in the how it’s made factory. This is the behind the scenes. I can’t wait to stand up there.
There’s something sacred about enduring. Even when the process doesn’t feel right, even when you sense a shift is coming—there’s value in the current moment. Sometimes the lesson doesn’t come from breaking away, but from fully living inside the system you’re itching to escape. You can only extract the final truth if you let the cycle finish. That last repetition, the final uncomfortable hour, the dragged-out moment of near quitting—it’s where clarity lives.
I’ve learned not to make drastic changes in the middle of the fog. The grind doesn’t feel good while it’s happening, but it teaches me something deeper than pleasure ever could. This discomfort is the price of becoming. These long days and endless tasks are the proof that I’m being shaped. I’m not skipping any steps. I’m not faking the process. I’m letting it mold me with full awareness. It hurts sometimes, sure—but that’s how I know it’s working.
One day, I’ll be standing on the other side. People will see the result and think it happened suddenly, but I’ll remember this part. I’ll remember the silence, the routine, the resistance. I’ll remember being in the how-it’s-made factory of my own transformation. So I want to soak it in while I can. I want to remember what it felt like to push through, day after day, building something no one else could see yet.
