The HARD STUFF!

I was talking with an old friend at work recently and she mentioned to me how much she admired Brandy and me… not for our “fitness stuff,” but for our marriage… how happy we were all the time… how we obviously loved each other.

I thought about it for a minute and then it kind of hit me… it’s not because we’ve NEVER had any challenges, any hard times, or anything go very wrong in our life together, that’s for sure… it’s not in SPITE of the challenges, it’s BECAUSE of them that we are SO strong together and so blessed in our marriage. We stuck it out through EVERY one of them. And MOST importantly… WE NEVER QUIT… even when it got HARD.

We never quit… even when it seemed impossible…

As health and fitness coaches, we see so many people never achieve their goals because they either end up quitting BEFORE they start… or AFTER it starts getting HARD… or they actually achieve their goals but then quit doing what got them there and end up right back where they started. They failed to realize the HARD parts are what us STRONGER and BETTER… it’s the hard parts that make it all “look easy” or that “you’re so luck you have a great life.” No, the greatest of “RESULTS” in life come from the greatest STRUGGLES that have been OVERCOME.

So HOW do we “STOP QUITTING?”

By realizing that the hard times can either come to stay OR they come to pass… and they PASS when we allow them to teach us how to do things better… when they CHALLENGE us to become stronger… when we LEARN from them and make things BETTER!

This “Law” is even demonstrated in the very BIOLOGY of our bodies. Early in life, we’re exposed to germs, bacteria, etc., and our bodies develop the ability to overcome them. If we’d just “showed up” at 30, 40, or 50 years old without EVER having been exposed to those things early… our bodies may not be able to survive because no immunity had been developed.

Realize that the HARD STUFF is not your enemy… it’s HOW we grow and how we GET to the places worth being. But we have to WORK to OVERCOME…

You have to STICK IT OUT long enough for that to HAPPEN!