In Process 💬

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Damon Brown
March 12, 2025

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Hi reader,

You may be good at starting things.

Or you may be strong at finishing things.

But few of us are ready for the messy middle.

It’s the in-between.

The slog.

The fog.

The neither here nor there.

And it is absolutely required to truly level up 🌉

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If you’re too eager to start, then it’s lots of loose ends, unfinished business, and dreams deferred in your wake.

We can move so fast, we think we can outrun the weight of the past.

But it is the invisible albatross that quietly hangs on you.

If you’re too eager to finish, then things are half-done, medium rare, and stunted in growth.

We are excited to just get it done, believing it will quell our performance anxiety.

But the anxiousness slowly morphs into regret over what could have been ⛅️

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The messy middle? That’s the good stuff.

It is the silence where we can hear our thoughts, and those thoughts tell us our true priorities.

It is the uncomfortable moment where we cannot escape, as all doors lead back to now like a circus maze.

It is where we face ourselves.

The wonderful Daniel Kaplan recently called this “in process”.

If you’re in process with your personal life, your career, your health, your anything — I get it, and you have my empathy.

So when you wake up one day and you’re not in process anymore, what treasure will you be walking out with? 🏴‍☠️

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