Sometimes you take the next step and the result is amazing, and sometimes it isn’t — and it’s when the result isn’t great that your whole frequency can drop to the point where you stop showing up. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but that’s normal. I wish the path to the dream was one long trajectory of triumph. It isn’t. It’s a roller coaster, and …
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