Good morning. Welcome to the Increasing Rain Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,870. The legendary skateboarder Rodney

Mullen is in his late 50s and he still skateboards every single day. He says that it's a gift to be able to do

something and love it for the sake of it. I have that. I've nurtured it

in my life, he says. When reading about people like Rodney, people who seem to love what they do,

who describe their work as play and so on, a common mistake is to think that it's all bliss all the

time. There are days, Rodney says, where you don't want to go out,

or it hurts, or you're sore, or you just suck. You're not making progress and you feel

defeated. But that's the nature of love. It's got hate in there. It's got pain in there.

And that's what draws you in. That's the magnetism, close

quote. This excerpt is from from six at six. It's a newsletter I get from Billy Oppenheimer.

And I really love that story. I really want to accentuate what he says here. That love, the nature of love,

has hate in there. It has pain in there. It's what draws you in. I think that's a common

misconception that we think because we love something that there isn't pain in there. That's

always going to be love and happy and smiles. But that's not the

reality. That's not the case for relationships. And that's not the case for doing things that we love.

And for those of you who are listening to this, if you're going through a moment where you feel you're

stagnant or you're sore or you suck or you're in pain or you feel defeated.

That doesn't mean you're falling out of love of something.

That's just part of the process.

That's just part of love.

And so my journal prompt for you today, for those of you who are writing, is I want you to

write down and document, just let your pen flow or your fingers flow if you're typing.

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