There’s a moment on this journey
that doesn’t get spoken about enough.

It’s not the beginning full of fire and bravery.
It’s not the breakthrough when it all finally clicks.

It’s the middle.

The messy, mundane, nothing’s-happening-but-everything-is middle.

Where you’re doing the f*cking work.
Healing. Showing up. Building. Becoming.
But the results? The proof? The payoff?

Not here yet.

And it’s fcking hard.

Because you’re pouring your energy, your devotion, your time
into something you believe in
but you can’t see it yet.

No open doors.
No arrival moment.
No fireworks.

Just quiet.

Just you,
and your choice to keep going.

But here’s what I know in my bones:

Just because the doors haven’t opened yet,
doesn’t mean they’re not already swinging.
Some of the most important shifts happen underground.
Unseen. Uncelebrated. Unshakeable.

And when you’re Optimising For Happiness
when your compass is joy, not just metrics
you learn to trust that the path is working… even when it looks like it isn’t.

So if you’re in it really in it
in the stretch, in the stillness, in the is this even working?…

Keep f*cking going.

You’re not lost.
You’re in the part of the story that requires the most self-trust.

And I know it doesn’t feel like magic right now.
But this moment?
It’s where the magic is made.

What would shift if you trusted it was already working… even when you can’t see it yet?

M x