in your head start telling you that it's too early, too dark, and too cold to get out of

bed. Aching muscles lie still in rebellion pretending not to hear your brain commanding

them to move, a legion of voices are shouting their unanimous permission for you to hit

the snooze button and go back to dream land, but you didn't ask their opinion. The voice

you've chosen to listen too is one of defiance, a voice that says there was a reason that

you set that alarm in the first place so sit up put your feet on the floor and don't look

back because we have work to do, welcome to the grind.

For what is each day but a series of conflicts between the right way and the easy way, 10,000

streams fan out like a river delta before you with each one promising the path of least

resistance, the thing is your headed up stream and when you make that choice, when you decide

to turn your back on what's comfortable, what's safe, and what would call common sense, well

that's day one. From there it only gets tougher, so just make sure this is something that you

want because the easy way out will always be there ready to wash you away, all you have

to do is pick up your feet. But you aren't going to are you, with each

step comes the decision to take another you're on your way now, but this is no time to dwell

on how far you have come. You're in a fight against an opponent you can't see but o you

can feel them on your heels cant you, feel them breathing down your neck, you know what

that is, that's you. Your fears, your doubts, your insecurities all lined up like a firing

squad ready to shoot you out of the sky, but don't lose heart, though they are not easily

defeated they are far from invincible. Remember, this is the grind, the battle royal between

you and your mind, your body, and the devil on your shoulder whose telling you that this

is just a game, this is just a waste of time; your opponents are stronger than you. Drown

out the voice of uncertainty with the sound of your own heart beat, burn away yourself

doubt with a fire lit beneath you, remember what we're fighting for and never forget that

momentums a cruel mistress she can turn on a dime or the smallest mistake she is ever

searching for a weak place in your armor, that one tiny thing that you forgot to prepare

for. So as long as the devil is hiding the details the question remains, is that all

you got, are you sure? And when the answer is yes and when you have done all you can

to prepare yourself for battle then it's time to go forth and boldly face your enemy, the

enemy within. Only now you must take that fight into the open, into hostile territory,

you're a lion in a field of lions all hunting the same elusive prey with a desperate starvation

that says victory is the only thing that can keep you alive. So believe that voice that

says you can run a little faster and you can throw a little harder and that for you the

laws of physics are mealy a suggestion. Luck is the last dying wish of those who wanna

believe that winning can happen by accident, sweat on the other hand is for those who know

it's a choice, so decide now because destiny waits for no man. And when your time comes

and a thousand different voices are trying to tell you you're not ready for it, listen

instead for that lone voice in decent the one that says you are ready, you are prepared,

it's all up to you now, so rise and shine.