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Why It Gets Hard Before It Gets Better
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Why It Gets Hard Before It Gets Better do hard things embrace the suck emotional cycle of change habit change mental toughness motivation self-discipline taking command valley of despair Sep 01, 2026

Why It Gets Harder Before It Gets Better

The Emotional Cycle of Change and the Valley Where Most People Quit

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

— Marcus Aurelius

You started something hard.

Maybe you put something down. Maybe it's a training block,...

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Why You Keep Breaking Promises to Yourself accountability breaking bad habits do hard things emotional eating fasting life on offense mental toughness pesronal sovereignty self-discipline self-trust stop drinking stop smoking taking command Aug 24, 2026

 

And How to Become Sovereign Again

No man is free who is not master of himself.

— Epictetus

You said you'd stop. Probably more than once.

Nothing blew up. You didn't lose the job or wreck the car or get the talk from your spouse. Nobody staged an intervention. It was quieter than that.

The dr...

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Life Flips Your Canoe - Six Life Lessons From the Day the Missouri River Kicked Our Ass columbia missouri do hard things do hard things coaching endurance grit high performance leadership life on offense mental toughness mr340 peaceful warrior resilience Apr 29, 2026

"It is not the critic who counts… The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."

— Theodore Roosevelt

Two Hours In

Two hours into the paddle on the Missouri River, the canoe flipped. Joe and I found ourselves in cold water with our g...

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