What's up guys and welcome back to build. And today I want to talk about how to get through hard times,

not from theory and not because I think it's trending, but because this is literally what I was

actually thinking about this morning. And I started writing down different thoughts that I had,

mostly because I have two people in my life who are going through really hard times. And they're both

very strong and very hardworking and amazing people. And I love them both so much. But they are

going through some of the hardest times of their life. And I started thinking about this last

year from me and how much I learned from it and I'm still learning from it because I would say that this last

year was one of the hardest times in my life having to deal with health challenges that I had

never dealt with before, having to have surgery, still not being able to do things that I used

to do and that used to just, you know, I used to probably take advantage of. And so I started thinking

about how all hard times,

though they all show up differently in our lives, they have the opportunity, or we have the

opportunity to learn similar things from them. And so if you're listening to this right now

and you're in a season where everything feels shitty, it just feels hard. It's confusing. It is lonely.

I am making this for you because I think that in those times, it's one, really important that we

don't feel that way. And two, that we are reminded that that is part of the human experience

and it doesn't last forever. Which actually brings me to the first point that

I wrote down. And this literally just popped into my head as I was thinking about it. I'll tell you

what actually happened. So this morning, I went to the gym and, you know, I still am very limited

in what I can do because of the surgery I had. So I cannot do as much lower body movement as easily. And when I do do it, I have to go pretty slow and controlled. And it's just discouraging. And so I was in the gym and I like to go at a time that nobody's there right now because I'm so embarrassed by the fact that, like, I used to just, you know, lift hundreds and hundreds of pounds and get after it. And I'm, you know, doing these very slow exercises and warming up for 30 minutes and, you know, barely able to lift. And I feel out of shape and I don't feel like myself. And I was in there. And I was watching everybody else just like mindlessly work out. And I asked myself, I was like, ugh, I just want to leave. And I was like, okay, no, what are you feeling right now? And I was like, I'm feeling sad because I wish that this wasn't happening. I'm so sick of this. I don't want to feel this way. I don't want this to be a thing. I just want to feel like myself again. And then it's like my brain just had this thought pop up. And all that popped up for me was

hard time doesn't mean hard forever. Hard time doesn't mean hard forever. And I was like,

fuck, it's so true. Because like when you're in it and like even for me right now, it feels

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