We look at successful people and think if we do what they're doing we'll be just as successful, it will come fast and it will be easy, they already laid the framework.

They did indeed lay the framework, but what we underestimate in that framework is the middle, it's messy and it's where most people stop. 

Starting a new business is fun, it's exhilarating, but inevitably, mistakes will be made, the "no's" will be never-ending, and there's no money coming in. It will make you doubt yourself and your abilities and you'll tell yourself you need to make a decision- stop everything you're doing and take the easy road, or keep pushing. 

The one thing that all successful people have in common is that they kept moving through all of the awkward, uncomfortable moments that make up the messy middle.