Whether you’re an entrepreneur scaling your business, please understand you will reach a plateau of your growth. If you push to the next level, the way you get there is through the process of messiness and confusion. There’s nothing wrong. Everything is right. Confusion means you’re growing. If you are an athlete and you’re at a certain plateau of your sport, your acumen, your game, please understand that things now must break down to break through.
Let’s say you’re a marathoner or a boxer or a yogi or a swimmer. You’re going to reach a certain level through your practice and your study and your devotion and your commitment. And then if you want to get to the next level of world-class, you’re going to have to break down things, your core beliefs, your muscles, your emotional architecture. Even on the physical side, your muscles need to break down. It’s called micro-tearing, and the muscle will break down, then you rest it. And then when you recover, guess what happens? Your muscle is stronger. That is growth.
