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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.

ā€” Marcus Aurelius

You started something hard.

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

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Siegfried Tiegs

CHPC, MBA, MSc, Major, U.S. Army (Ret.) High Performance Coach ā€¢ Author ā€¢ Speaker

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