Do you ever feel like a challenging situation keeps forcing you or stopping you in your tracks and you keep quitting?

Hey Spartans, I'm Zach Evnesh. Welcome to another episode of the Spartan

way podcast. I'm here at the Spartan headquarters in beautiful Boston and

today what I'm going to be talking about is loyalty to yourself, loyalty to the mission, and following through to the very

end.

Now, oftentimes I get asked, Zach, how are you able to work so hard?

It seems like you're never burning out. It seems like you never get tired or I'm asking

about how did you do that job you were driving so far and it brings me back to

a memory I have when I was the strength and conditioning coach for the Lehi

University wrestling team. I was actually offered the position while driving home from Vermont,

working with Joe for a weekend, and I got the phone call and the job was offered to me

and it wasn't the best pay and it was almost two hours each way. So I told them

let me have a quick conversation with my wife. I spoke with my wife and we just agreed this is something I've got to do. It's going to be tough. I'm not going to love the drive. It's going to be exhausting. I'm going to come home later than normal.

I'm going to wake up earlier than normal. And there was all of these obstacles in the way that

were somehow trying to say in the back of my head,

you shouldn't do this, it's going to be too much.

But instead, I said, let me flip that around

and take pride in the challenge. You see you don't have to love everything you do.

If it's always easy there's no pride in overcoming the challenges. If things are

always easy we don't learn from them. So taking a

quote from an old book I read when I was 18 and this book was called Road Warrior

and it was written by Dick Mar Marcinko who was the creator of

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