What's the pain period? It's the period where your skills aren't perfect yet. You're not getting the results you want either. You do your best to be outcome independent but it's difficult. You get #s but many of them flake.

My rule to combat this is: For the first 1000 approaches, allow yourself to fail. After that it gets incredibly simple and easy because you've seen how you messed up.

Sure it'll hurt but get through that and it gets way easier.