GoodFriday: On sacred time, the middle, & recovering from injury
Happy GoodFriday!
Here’s something I heard, thought, and did this week.
Something I Heard: The Middle
A client shared this post with me yesterday from the Business Brief Substack, and it really stuck with me. It was thought-provoking in a way that I felt was worth passing along, so I wanted to share it with you today.
The Disappearing Middle
No one talks about the middle anymore.
You’re either “just starting out” or “crushing it.”
You’re either lost or legendary.
Building or burnt out.
Always one extreme or the other.
Somewhere between “beginner” and “breakthrough,” the middle quietly disappeared.
The middle is where things are steady — but not exciting.
Where progress is happening — but not visible.
Where work feels repetitive — not revolutionary.
And in our need to feel exceptional, we’ve learned to despise it.
The middle feels boring, so we label it as “stuck.”
We don’t post about it because it doesn’t perform.
We don’t talk about it because it doesn’t sound impressive.
But here’s the quiet truth:
The middle is where mastery is built.
It’s where identity stops being performative and starts being real.
It’s where you stop chasing the next dopamine hit —
and start realizing what consistency actually costs.
The problem is, our world doesn’t reward middles.
It rewards peaks and pivots.
So we keep reinventing just to feel movement.
We call it evolution, but most of the time it’s escape.
Because sitting in the middle — when no one’s clapping, when nothing’s dramatic —
requires a kind of peace most people never build.The middle doesn’t make you famous.
It makes you grounded.
And that’s much harder.
Something I Thought: Sacred Time
The gym is your sacred time. Its the one place you go to give back to yourself. Do not let anything take away from that sacred time you give yourself.
Something I’m Doing: Bouncing Back From an Injury
I learned a really interesting lesson after tweaking my back while leg pressing two Fridays ago. Core and glute activation is UNBELIEVABLY IMPORTANT.
When it happened, I honestly thought I was going to be out for at least a week. Normally when people get hurt, they lay low, use some ice or heat, try to manage the pain, and wait it out. I’ve done similar things in the past as well. But this time, I reached out to my PT and his advice was this:
Do your core and glute routine and stay relatively active.
So I did exactly that. I hammered my core and glutes all weekend. The exercises are listed below, but what blew my mind was how fast I recovered. I went from needing help to stand up on Friday… to training basically normal on Monday.
The reason for my speedy recovery makes sense. When your core and glutes are firing properly, they stabilize the lower back and help calm down the muscles that tighten up when something flares. I did this routine throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday, and I couldn’t believe how much better I felt by Monday.
I know there’s no one size fits all fix for back pain, chronic or acute. But this experience was eye opening enough that I had to share it.
Here are the exercises that I did to help my back:
Until next week!
-Cameron Harn
