do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Those are the words of Bruce Lee.

I really love and appreciate this sentiment.

The idea here is pretty clear.

Most of us, you, myself, most of the people that you know are likely not going to have an easy life.

You know, it's a common human misconception and error to look at people who you think have an

easy life and project the fantasy of what you want to be, what you want to have, the ease

and the simplicity and the lack of hardship that you want

sometimes onto other people. The truth is that you are going to have a challenging life. You are

going to have hardship. You are going to have obstacles. You are going to have extreme difficulties

in your life, both in sort of finite events that,

you know, only last for a week or two and in longer durations of time where you feel like

you're in the pit and you can't seem to get out, you know, where you're really sucked down

into the dredges of your business falling apart, you know, a year of marital problems where the relationship

where you're not sure, your partner's not sure if the relationship will survive and you have

kids. Maybe one of them has a health problem. Your finances are struggling. I mean,

this is real life for most people. And I was thinking about this quote the other day,

and I was thinking about how do we, because

somebody had asked me, how did you get out of the rock bottom that you found yourself in?

And I put a good amount of thought into this and distilled it down to one sentiment, which is

don't make your already hard life harder. The truth is that I got

myself into rock bottom. I found myself in the worst place in my life because I was actively

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