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Learn or Fail: How To Win The Messy Middle In Your Solo Business
Feeling directionless? Great!
Beginners are excited, hopeful and enthusiastic.
Experts are confident, skilled and rich.
But what about the average solopreneur? The one going through yet another day of hard work for pennies? The middle of your online business growth is a scary place. It’s where dreams come to die.
Unless you know how to go through it like a badass.
Keep it up.
Brene Brown calls the messy middle your Day 2 of development.
This is where shit gets real. The initial excitement is gone, the amazing results haven’t arrived yet, and you feel a little lost.
Don’t worry, you’re not doing it wrong. That’s exactly how this stage is supposed to feel. It’s easy to throw in the towel when you first come face to face with the messiness of it — but don’t.
“It feels like the doors have shut behind me, and I cannot yet see the light at the end of the tunnel.” — Tara Harvey, PhD
The best way to go through this is to keep going, though blindly, feeling your way forward. Which brings me to my second point.