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Our kids need to see us persevering, showing some grit in life. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny,

and Danny, how did you demonstrate, model, show your children, resilience, and perseverance? Do you

have any stories that come to mind? Yeah, I mean, we started early, early. We would say,

let's try it again. Let's just try it again. And that's

part of perseverance. It's that mindset that you can try things again. There's a rewind button and

there's a opportunity to get right back up and try it again. And so it was with building things.

It was with hiking activities that we did.

I remember one of our first hikes with our kids.

They were really young.

We started camping pretty early on in their lives.

And that's perseverance in itself.

With young kids, they feel like it's super long and it's cold at night.

A lot of built-in opportunities to persevere when you go camping. There go there are yeah and there was this one hike that was about a mile long it was hanging lake beautiful

oh beautiful yeah area they're pretty young and about halfway through my son said i i don't want to go

anymore i'm i'm done when is this over dad it's it's long. And I said, no, we set out to do this hike. And I knew it wasn't that long. And I knew it was a moment for him that he was just, it was kind of boring, but he needed to expand it a bit, just his experience as a young boy. And I said, hey, you know, at the end, it's going to be so satisfying.

You're going to see how we're going to take some great pictures and we get back. We're going to be going to a pizza place and having a great time of celebration that we made it from beginning to end on the goal that we set today. And he said, dad, I said, well, you know what, let's just rest here for a moment. let's reset and then we'll get there.

We'll just take one step at a time and uh let me know where rest makes sense for you and let's figure

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