I recently had a conversation with my great long-time friend (more like a brother) the other day and he reminded me how people rarely talk about the struggles.

I realized that I have been so focused on daily habits, routines and being positive that I completely gloss over the doubts and struggles that we ALL go through.

My struggle recently is just staying focused on my grind despite not always knowing what direction I want to go. Although I found my purpose and I know what I want to do, I don’t always know how to go about it. I’ve been sticking to my daily routine of exercise, meditation, journaling and reading. The routine is meant to get me to move forward and to maintain discipline. But I shouldn’t confuse the routine of personal development with progress.

As an example, my friend was talking about how he bought some courses and never finished them and it reminded me that I had done the same thing in the last few months TWICE! I got all motivated bought a course about value creation and for the first day spent a few hours later. Since that day a month ago, I have never touched it again. A few weeks later, I found another course that someone was selling on Twitter and I bought that as well. Now here we are at the end of May and I still haven’t finished that one either.

I have told myself now that I can’t buy another course until I complete the ones I already have and I apply it to creating something of my own. Afterall this is what I got into this journey for. I wanted to create and not just consume. I wanted to build and stack on a dailiy basis.

Talking about the struggle now makes me appreciate the journey because I know struggles happen when you are just about to do something great.

Now back to work.