In your life's journey, there will come times that put your spirit to the ultimate test.

You'll be tempted to break, to let go, to descend into madness.

You'll feel isolated in the hardest of trials.

And what you choose to do in solitude is your only companion.

That's where true learning happens.

It's in the silent moments.

When you're all alone,

where your response to life's challenges

truly shapes you.

The true measure of your character isn't taken when life is easy and all is going well.

But rather at those moments when you're faced with trials and storms, when everything goes

dark for you.

The thing is about darkness, though, is most people freak out when things get dark.

When they're in the dark and can't see they start panicking and don't know what to do or where to go but what you need to do

is be willing to sit patiently in that darkness assess what's happening and become used to the challenge

of that darkness if you do that your eyes will begin to adjust to the dark

and you will see exactly the way you should go to make progress.

You gotta become comfortable with the pain.

Stair it straight in the face. Don't run from it anymore.

Stand still and let it run from you. When things go wrong,

when you run out of money, when things don't work out for you, when the people you care about

leave you, what keeps you going? If all you're doing it for is a house or a car, that can stop you.

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