Close Strong The Most Dangerous Part of the Journey You're 80% done. Maybe you've written 45,000 words of your 60,000-word book. Maybe you've been in your new job for 75 of your critical first 90 days. Maybe you've been job searching for three months and you finally have a second-round interview tomorrow. Maybe your business has three pilot clients and you're ready to scale. You can see the finish line. It's right there. And somehow, that makes it harder, not easier. This is

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