Choosing Your Hero’s Journey: Perseverance through the Plateaus

This week’s Hero’s Journey video and the insights from President James E. Faust’s talk on perseverance got me reflecting deeply about what it really means to commit to a meaningful path. The hero’s journey is not a story about quick wins or easy success. Rather, it motives us to embrace challenges and stay faithful to our vision, even when the way forward looks uncertain or exhausting.

President Faust’s stories—like Marie Curie’s refusal to quit after hundreds of failed experiments or Elder Lorenzo Snow’s near-death experience and miraculous survival—remind me that perseverance is less about talent or luck and more about grit and faith. Perseverance invites us to get up every time we fall and trust that consistent effort will eventually reap reward.

This really hits home when I think about chapters 3 and 4 of Mastery by George Leonard. He calls out how our culture is obsessed with quick wins, shortcuts, and instant results—and honestly, that leaves zero room for the kind of slow, steady effort real mastery needs. We all want progress to look like a straight line consisting of constant breakthroughs and big wins. The truth is, most of the real work happens on what Leonard calls “the plateau.” That’s the part where things feel stuck or slow, and not much seems to be changing. The solution to this is our mission to fall in love with the plateau. Instead of seeing it as a dead end or failure, it’s actually the most important place where patience, discipline, and real strength get built. If we truly want to master something, we will keep showing up and putting in the work, even when it’s boring or feels like nothing’s happening.

For me, this perspective hits home with NutriThrive Fitness. I've desperately wanted certain aspects of building the business to be more of a sprint than a marathon of consistency and persistence. I’ve struggled with creating regular online content to grow visibility and build a community around my message because of this. Leonard’s call to embrace the plateau reminds me that showing up day after day, even when creativity or motivation wanes, keeps the momentum alive and builds the foundation for lasting impact.

I also wrestle with learning new skills like building sales funnels and CRM platforms—tasks that feel complex and outside my comfort zone. But through the lens of perseverance and mastery, I understand these challenges aren’t barriers but vital steps in the journey. To find success, I must embrace discomfort, trust the process, and commit to the quiet, steady effort that eventually leads to breakthroughs.

Choosing the hero’s journey means commitment—balancing faith, hard work, and patience. The story isn’t finished until we decide to keep going, no matter what. And when we do, we build something real, lasting, and powerful—not just for ourselves, but for those we serve.




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