Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.