What My Experience of Creating My First Nutrition Product Taught Me about being Focused, Failing, and having Discipline.

It is weird that when I look back to the last year when everything began. I did not wake up in the morning and say, I am going to create a product on nutrition. Well, I was only trying to mend myself. I was not in my routines, my energy was everywhere, and nothing that was previously working was not any longer.

I continued to believe that it was a motivation issue. It turned out later that it was a problem of clarity.

I did not follow another random diet or hack but instead I did something different. I slowed down. I began to notice what I was literally doing daily - how I ate, how I slept, how I was struck by stress and how inconsistent I really was. I wrote things down. Not beautiful notes, but just haphazard thoughts that only meant sense to me.

In one of those scribbles there was a clicking.

I wasn't lacking effort. I was lacking structure. And that honestly annoyed me. So I began to experiment with how to have increased influence on my own habits. The experiment became another experiment. This was all intended to become a product. It was simply an effort on my part to know myself.

However, after long enough working on something, it begins to shape you back.

It was disheartening during the initial stages. The weeks were the periods when nothing stirred there were weeks when I could think about some idea in my head and when it seemed to be so clear that the next moment it dissipated. There were days when I would wonder what I was doing. And no great inspirational thing, just doubtful silence that continued to appear.

And that is also when discipline began to develop.

I realized that I was growing more tolerant. More aware of my own patterns. I was no longer hoping to make fast points. I was training to sit with the process where the process was slow or uncomfortable. The section transformed me more than any paperwork I did.

I also got to know how bare you are when you create something out of nothing. It makes you address the areas that you are holding back, the areas where you overthink, and the areas where you are avoiding responsibility. No one tells you that. You do it yourself at 2 a.m when you are gazing at nothing that is not functioning yet.

But you keep going anyway.

Somehow in the process, I understood that I was not merely creating a formula or a brand. I was creating consistency in myself - something that I had been keen to do all my years. The work made me sharper. It made me more honest. And taught me that I should value little advancement more than perfection.

Whenever I look back, now, I do not just see the product that eventually came of all this. I see the version of myself who had to overcome the errors, the dull days, the misunderstandings, and the silence, which does not impress anybody.

That's the part I'm proud of.

Not the bottle. Not the label. However, the change that occurred in the background, the one that is not posted on the social media. The aspect in which I was taught about discipline is not the strictness with oneself. It is having not to give up on yourself when things are dirty.

To a certain extent, this entire experience made me realize that personal development is not noisy. The majority of days it is like repeating the same small thing and making it seem like the thing you are.

I'm still figuring things out. I'm still getting better. But I'm not lost anymore. And in case someone is reading this at a time when they are feeling stagnant, I want them to understand that advancement does not necessarily appear spectacular. At times it only takes a single step of honesty.

That's how this began for me.

And frankly that is what still goes on.