YOU ARE LIVING IN THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. Do you realize what a privilege you have to be here, to be a part of this? To be asked by God to participate? To be even the tiniest little part of this plan, how important you are to it all happening? We are all needed. We are all a part of this. Beautiful brave new world starts with us.

Perspective is everything. Appreciate every single moment, embrace the suck.

"embrace the suck." lol

i always see “embrace the suck” as a really hope-filled saying - it’s reserved for those people i know can tolerate it.

that, and “harden the fuck up”, are really common sayings in endurance sport communities. the guy who wins the race is almost always the one who can be just short of redline and continue to push, despite everything hurting. it’s a word of encouragement and a bit of a badge of honor to say “you’ve got this”, and “everything you want is on the far side of a crappy situation”.

can’t discount the importance of teamwork, either. even cyclists or runnings competing against one another will work together sharing the workload/rest so they can ultimately race it out toward the finish.