The discomfort you’re feeling might be the exact spot where you’re getting stronger.

Difficulty feels like a warning, and sometimes it is, but it is also what change feels like from the inside. The place where things are awkward and slow tends to be the edge of what you can currently do, and that edge is the only place growth happens. Comfort and progress rarely share an hour.

Learn to tell the discomfort of effort from the discomfort of harm, since one fades and the other accumulates. If it is effort, stay a little longer than you want to. If it is harm, stop, because nobody gets credit for enduring that kind.