If you have ever undertaken something new you recognize the messy middle. It is no-where land. You’ve departed from the safe harbor of your usual practice (a rut perhaps) and ventured into the wild blue yonder of something new. Yet there is no charted course, no neatly defined path to take you easily and quickly on your way. You wander and stumble through the seemingly vast wasteland of the messy middle. If you are fortunate …