Eddie Pinero

The stories we tell ourselves are everything.

And that's not a nice little cliche for an Instagram quote.

That's the difference between reaching mile 100 and looking up, wishing you had.

It's the difference between evolving into your potential and staying where you are.

In many ways, it's the difference between the person you currently are and the person you can become.

And so most likely you're not on mile 80 of a hundred mile run, but you do have your equivalent.

And maybe your feet aren't torn up and your legs aren't sore, but you do have your source of discomfort and duress.

And what I need you to remember is that getting there requires when that alarm goes off, you stand up, you step out onto the battlefield and you continuously push forward.

through the heat, through the cold, beyond the pain and doubt and uncertainty and questions about what it'll all mean.

What if this goes wrong or this happens right through the center of all of it?

Because the journey may seem long, but the journey is never your responsibility.

One more step is your responsibility.

Trusting that little things will culminate into big things is your responsibility.

Understanding that when the world bows down, you can be the one who stands up, says no, and carries on.

That is your responsibility.

The funny thing about running 100 miles is it seems so over the top and outlandish that we forget it's just one step many times.

Show me someone who can't take one more step.

Show me the man or woman who can't figure out how to move 12 inches further into the abyss.

For creatures blessed with an ability to think that supersedes all other living things on earth, it's amazing to me that some of our greatest achievements, our strengths, our superpower requires that we cut the thinking off and simply stand up and rise to the occasion over and over again.

Not when we want to or when it feels right, but when we are called to.