Count It All Joy Sounds Impossible Until You See What the Hard Part Is Building.
We talk about labor a lot in the world of building a business and a life. The labor of showing up consistently. The labor of doing the work when you don’t feel like it. The labor of building something from scratch, of managing a team, of raising kids and running a home and still finding time to grow. That kind of labor gets talked about. It gets celebrated. And it should. But there’s another kind of labor I don’t think we talk about nearly enough. The Labor That Happens in You Think about childbirth for a second. Not as a metaphor you’ve heard a hundred times, but as a real, physical reality. Labor in childbirth is not productive in the way we typically define productive. You’re not checking things off a list. You’re not making progress you can measure from the outside. You are going through something that is hard, and relentless, and asks everything of you, and there is no shortcut through it. And yet. Something is coming. That is the kind of labor I want to talk about today. The labor that is happening in you, not just around you. The kind that’s forming something, producing something, building…
