I read this quote recently:
“...not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win”.
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I came across this quote the other day and it really stuck with my inner athlete.To me, the words beautifully encapsulate not just the pursuit of pushing yourself to the limit in order to reach a goal, but also the acceptance within that pursuit of the struggle that will come too.
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No-one will ever discover what they are truly capable of without struggle and difficulty, and as an athlete, knowing this helps me frame failure and setbacks as part of the process of reaching the long-term goal.
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Ask any athlete about how they reached their major goals and I can guarantee that, somewhere along the line, a setback or perceived failure will have become a pivotal moment in their development. Adversity forces you to ask hard questions of yourself and others to ask hard questions of you. You emerge the other side bruised but bettered, slightly remoulded each time into a stronger version of you.
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