Hi you guys, this is Havela Kennington. Welcome to the Havela podcast. I'm really excited

to hear. This is the final, really moment, this final podcast of our series of The Good

Hard Life. I started this out in August because I was thinking about how much of life

is just good and hard and it's usually at the same time. Like usually it's not just

one or the other and I think in my mind for a long time I thought that I just needed

my life to change so that I could get from hard to good. Like I could get from waiting

to like achieving or accomplishing and I think I was pretty disappointed by the time I started

having the good stuff happen. I still felt like it was hard and it was still like not as

I kind of anticipated and so that's kind of why I started this series is maybe to normalize

that part of your life and my life that we kind of think maybe we're missing something

but really not. It's just part of life and I'm trying to set you up to know that even

myself I'm trying to figure this out too and here's the things that are working for

me and things that I have to constantly work on. I love how Craig Grishel used to say

you know there are some things in life that are problems to solve and then there are

some things in life that are tensions to manage. That's what I feel like life is about

when you become a leader and you start kind of going after those big dreams and influencing

people and you know writing that book you want to write or running that organization that

you want to run or marrying the guy that you want to marry or having the kids or whatever

it is. It really isn't something you check a box. I wish somebody had told me that in

leadership. Like leadership isn't checking a box solved. I'm a great leader solved. I'm

a great boss you know solved. I'm a great mom or solved. I'm a good Christian or whatever

it is. It's this tension that we manage between being you know we're fluid. We're not

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