Mindset

There is a particular kind of hard that nobody prepares you for. Not the hard of a specific setback — a rejection, a loss, a failure you can point to. That kind of hard, as painful as it is, at least has a shape. The hard I’m talking about is the slow, grinding, formless kind….

You know that feeling. It’s not dramatic. It doesn’t arrive with a crash or a crisis. It creeps in quietly — usually late at night, or on a Tuesday afternoon when nothing in particular has gone wrong, but nothing feels right either. It’s a slow, heavy thought that sits down next to you and says:…