The dip is a good sign.

It shows that we are on the right track and that all we need to do is to keep going.

It's not pleasant. It never is.

But once we embrace it, once we embrace the identity of being someone who can persist through the dip, we start looking forward for it rather than avoiding it.

The Dip is the long slog between starting and mastery. A long slog that’s actually a shortcut, because it gets you where you want to go faster than any other path.

~ Seth Godin, The Dip