Starting is hard.

Often much harder than continuing.

The time between your alarm going off and when you actually get out of bed is inevitably more agonizing than twenty minutes later when your morning routine is underway.

For most swimmers, the act of jumping into the pool at 6:00am is incomprehensibly more difficult than the fifth or sixth lap of warmup moments later.

Beginning a difficult conversation is excruciating while having it is often both productive and far less horrendous than you built it up to be.

Getting up. Jumping in. Embracing necessary conflict.

Courage comes in starting.