I was at my lowest, running through the desert.

When my friend and trainer noticed the look on my face,

my pace slowed a little bit.

And he said, Eddie, you said you wanted change.

Well, this is where change happens, rise to the occasion.

And that may not seem like much.

But that moment embedded something very important into my brain.

It connected those moments of suffering to the outcome I so desperately want.

Because as we all know, when you're in it, it's easy to see the occurrence in a vacuum,

to disassociate the pain with the result, right? Sometimes you even forget why you're doing it.

Why put yourself through something when, I don't know, the rest of the world is at home watching the game or having a beer?

And what he did, making that statement, was put what's important front and center.

It's like, oh, Eddie, you can have all those things.

All of them.

But this is the cost, your call.

Now that suffering takes on somewhat of a different shape.

But it hurts.

Well, of course it does.

That's why very few people have the thing you want.

That's why it's rare.

It's why it means something.

Some things are so simple that we have to step up a level beyond the excuses and the minutia and the detail to understand.

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