Tough times build tough people. The adversity, the challenges, the success that we want in our life, it comes from it.

It comes from that adversity. It comes from the scrapes. It comes from the bruises. It comes from the

moments when you said to yourself that you didn't think that you were going to

make it just for you to make it through the situation and not even realize that you just overcame that.

It comes from that.

That just because it gets hard, like just because things don't go your way doesn't mean that you quit. You quitting is a

contradiction to your very existence because you weren't born a quitter.

2014 I was executing the training exercise with my team. A simple exercise that we had all done.

And a part of that exercise is the completion of an obstacle course.

Now like I said, we had all done this before.

So as we traversed through the obstacle course and got to the very end,

there was only one thing that we needed to do.

And I was just climbing rope. Now just like what I said we

had all done this before so a simple task is climbing a rope will be nothing for

us. I approached the rope and began to climb like I don't know what happened.

I don't know if the ropes were new I don't know if I was just fatigue but for some reason

as I got halfway up there I came back down.

Thinking nothing of it I shook my arms out and began to climb again.

And just like last time I got halfway up there and for some reason I came back down again.

Now at this point now I'm starting to think like what's going on with the situation

is my pack too heavy is my boots too tight am I just too fatigue so I grabbed a rope

and I climb halfway up there again. And next thing you know I come

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