The work you do during the quiet times prepares you for when you go through something.
Your hard work is the reason you don’t fall back to the state of an incapable infant.
Every time you work hard towards an outcome, you evolve. You break through a limitation. That limitation allows you to percieve, to be, to function at a higher level.
Every time you evolve, and you break through your glass ceiling, you reach a new checkpoint. That check point is pretty much a save point – just like in video games – where you can put down your bag, reestablish your path and ressource for a moment before deciding to head up the mountain again.
All of the frameworks, the understandings, the ways you overcame challenges, they all become part of the structure of how you overcome an issue that presents itself to you.
An example of this is; at the start of the year (2024), I hit my glass ceiling and went into a wall. I spiralled out of control -where I tend to spend most of my time – and started to devolve towards where I was at the start of my 20’s. BUT, and this is an important one, because of all the hardwork I had put in overcoming the trouble I went through at the start of my 20’s, instead of struggling with the troubles for 6 years, as I did before. I knew the specific doors to take, the right shortcuts, and the right paths to take to overcome my trouble. In fact, overcoming my issue became like a game, because rather than being overtaken and overwhelmed by what I was experiencing, instead I had the right questions, the right frameworks, and the right understandings to navigate the trauma I went through.
Instead of going back to my previous state of feeling entirely hopeless in the face of what I was going through, I simply rested upon the frameworks that I had built overtime. Yes, the last few months have been painful. BUT, I didn’t fall back down to the bottom of the mountain. And that’s all that counts. Because, I’m going upwards, not down.
That’s all for now!
All the best,
Cherokee Goldberg
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