Ever Better Today:
Season 2 Episode 26

 The Middle by Megan Katarina

Welcome to Ever Better Today: the daily podcast for creating your optimal business, career, or overall life in ten minutes or less. I’m Lisa Conners Vogt, Executive and Leadership Coach and founder of Ever Better Coaching and Consulting. Let’s jump in!

Notes from this episode are below.

Everyone experiences challenging times involving setbacks, uncertainty, and difficulties.
Sometimes you don’t realize that you’re in the middle of something until you come through it and see life from a new perspective.

The Middle
by Megan Katarina

There is a place where no one stays
But everyone must go
A place everyone learns what they wish
They did not have to know

 At the end of oblivion
And the start of change
There’s a place we call “The Middle”
That is best known for its pain

I know I’m not the only one
Who’s tried to skip this spot
Who could blame me?
It’s the longest and the hardest of the lot

 My first vain idea
Was to avoid it altogether
But staying at the start
Just left me feeling bored and tethered

 Then I thought I’d venture on
But I’d run and do it fast
Until I tripped and fell upon
My pride, my guilt, my past

Afraid, I turned around
To find a shortcut through the weeds
But avoiding the laborious hike
Just forced me deeper in between

 With open cuts and bruises
I decided to surrender
And though the climb was daunting
I did not deny its splendor

 I began to learn myself
Inside the stillness of the dark
And heal a little quicker
With each scar that left its mark

Until one day when it’d been long
Since I let my life be ruled by fear
I wasn’t even looking anymore
But I was here

 That’s the thing about the middle,
It’s quite maddening you see
It will not deem you “ready”
Until you stop pretending to be

And though it’d be lovely to bypass
The place where hurt occurs
Where every statement is just a question
Of who you are and who you were

 I wish not to regret the times
When life made me feel brittle
Cause how would I have made it here
If I had skipped the middle?

 Yes, how would I be who I am
If I had skipped the middle?

Have you come through the middle of a life or business transition and realized that it made you
stronger and wiser?

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