You Are Closer Than You Think.
Published on February 20, 2026
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Most people quit when they are 6 inches away from a breakthrough.
The hard part about building an online business is that progress is often invisible at first. You publish content. You create. You learn. You tweak. You improve. And it feels like nothing is happening.
But something is happening.
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You are building skill. You are building experience. You are building confidence. And eventually, those things compound.
Success online is rarely one big moment. It is 100 small moments stacked together. Something I also like to refer to "habit stacking", where you are taking small incremental daily habits that compounding those into a much more substantial output.
It doesn't feel like much at the time. But through time, you start to gain ground on any and all competition...and eventually YOU become the competition.
Simple facts, if you stay in the game long enough, you win.
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