This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1563.

Do you find yourself being overly short tempered?

Do you easily give up on pursuits and projects you once considered important?

Do you feel discouraged by everyday living?

It's quite possible that your spiritual endurance is low.

There's nothing to be ashamed of.

We all have periods in our lives when we feel like we cannot endure.

If you're in the middle of pursuing a demanding career,

raising a family, or managing difficulties in close relationships,

you know how tempting it can be to just throw in the towel.

But deep down, you know that giving up will not bring relief.

You know that if you want to break through you crave in your life,

that you must find the strength to keep going even when you feel like giving up.

If you've ever talked to a long distance runner,

you may have heard about the wall.

Is that point in the race when the body just quits?

Legs and lungs burn?

The brain screams stop.

The urge to quit is almost impossible to override.

Yet many distance runners learn to push through the wall.

Once they do, they've a renewed drive to see the race to completion.

It's not uncommon for a distance runner to tell you that

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