Feel it. Feel as your heart beats faster and faster. Feel how you try and slow it down, feel when you manage to slow it down. Take not and account of every detail of these feelings. Not so that you can use them in your decision making on why you should stop what you’re doing, but so that you can see what you did despite how you felt. Memorize each and every time that you did what you had to do when nothing about you felt right. When not even your mind was on your side. Nobody else will remind you that you did it so you have to be the one to remind yourself that you did it and can do it again. Over and over again. For as long as it takes. For as bad as it gets.
Feel the doubt creeping in, feel how it claws at your resolve. It’s a familiar feeling, isn’t it? The temptation to quit, to slow down, to justify why this is enough. But remember—this isn’t about comfort or about what feels easy. This is about proving to yourself that the discomfort doesn’t dictate your outcome. Every second you keep going, you are rewriting the narrative of who you are. You’re showing yourself, step by step, that you are someone who doesn’t stop when it gets hard. You are someone who pushes through, who thrives in the challenge, who refuses to settle for less than their best.
The more you feel it—the fatigue, the doubt, the resistance—the more you realize it’s all part of the process. It’s not something to avoid or dread; it’s the path you have to walk to become who you’re meant to be. The struggle is part of the transformation. Without it, there’s no growth, no breakthrough. So, welcome it. Lean into it. Let it shape you, forge you into something stronger, something unstoppable.
And when it gets unbearable, when every fiber of your being screams for you to stop, that’s when you know you’re getting closer to that edge, that line where growth happens. It’s in those moments of pain and doubt that you are creating the foundation for the future you want. So keep going. Keep reminding yourself that you’ve been here before and you came out stronger. Do it again, for as long as it takes, no matter how bad it gets. Because you are not someone who backs down. You are someone who rises, time and time again.
