Doing is boring.
It comes after the excitement of ideation and brainstorming. It is way ahead of the sparkles and glitters of reveal and success. It is repetitive, often solitary, unsung, at times painful, mostly bland.
And that is precisely why many fail at it.
Showing up day after day to merely do is a trait one needs to train. Without that, we are jumping from one thing to the next. With that, we are setting ourselves apart from the mass.
Doing, just like life, is boring.
To achieve anything, you just have to get over this simple fact.
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