The In-betweeners

Success stories are good.
Nothing more, nothing less. We all love a good Success story, especially if it begins with the inspiration of the story going through trials to get to where they currently are.

These stories will give you steps on how to get where they are. Their mantras, the habits they picked up… how they got up earlier and sacrificed what food they’d want to eat to make sure they got the shape they have at the moment.

Okay. Great. Fantastic.

What about the tears? The self-doubt? The days where the only place that understood you was your bed and you found a sanctuary in watching time pass by?

The in-between moments don’t sell. They are not the story people want to hear because they make the journey to the finish line seem much longer and more gruelling. Nobody wants to be struck down whilst they are trying to get up. Then again, the REALITY of it all is that it happens. We shouldn’t be a stranger to the unfairness of certain outcomes during our journey. Even at our slowest pace as we recover from the “not-so-great” to the “better” we may fall. It may be slower than when we were sprinting, but the fall is the fall.

The harsh truth of the in-between is that it has no timeline. Yes, they might add a “few years later” on the page, but it does not take years to read that book. You are done with a book in a month or two- telling the story of someone that struggled for seconds, minutes, hours…years.
Take interest in the in-between. The moments the person stared at blank walls for hours before they put in a few more hours of work into the beautiful result that is the outcome.

Take pride in your in-betweens! It’s not fun, but it is the realest part of your story ❤️