Every journey has it’s moments, the highs and the lows, these are the moments we remember. But people often forget the most important bit: the boring middle. The part of the journey where the high of starting a new journey has waned but the soul crushing defeats haven’t come yet, and the glory from victory is even further still. The boring grueling middle is the part of the journey where the you do the same things everyday without seeing much progress at all. It’s the part where you begin to question why you’re on this journey in the first place. You keep working towards your goal, day in and day out, seemingly without getting any closer.

But this is where the you’re wrong. What you don’t see is that you are exercising consistency and in the end, consistency is the only thing that matters. You, simply by doing the mundane, doing the repetitions, are slowly getting closer to your goal. You won’t feel it in the moment but when enough time has passed, you will look back and see how far you’ve come.

I write this as a reminder to myself that I am in this boring middle. Now that the novelty of starting my own business has faded, I find myself in a constant state of self-doubt, questioning everything I do and wondering if it’s getting me closer to my goal. In truth, I don’t know if it is. And there is no way for me to know for sure. All I know is that I have to trust the process and believe that I’m capable of achieving my goal of getting this business off the ground and hopefully to a multi-million dollar business in the not so distant future.

Every time I question why I’m doing this, I must remind myself of the other path that society wants me to take. The path more travelled if you will. The path that everyone takes and years later wonders why their lives are so mediocre. If you demand excellence from yourself, yet you do what everyone else does, you are not exceptional, you are average; I don’t want to be average. I want to look back at my life and say, “I’m glad I started my business when I got out of college.” Future me will thank me for the amount of work I’m putting in and that’s honestly what’ll keep me going through this period. I just hope I make it to the end just so I can look back at this boring middle and play it back like a training montage that got me to where I am.