Shawn Johnson East

Sometimes we're like, I got nothing.

Yeah.

By everything we just talked about.

Yeah.

Truly like working through it and working through all the problems.

And I feel like it, I feel like everybody knows it, right?

Everybody knows that to be an elite athlete, you have to commit to a sport and you have to work through the hard days and the grind.

And like, that's a very stereotypical story you hear and people know about it.

We had gone through that and we had lived through that.

And yet we still found ourselves with certain things saying, we just need to go find, you know, the next thing to make us happy and that's going to fix the problem.

The next thing.

Instead of saying, you know what, let's just work through the really uncomfortable valley and...

If we can get through it, let's see what's on the other side.

And there were so many times in our life with business and with our kids and even with our marriage, and there still will be.

We haven't mastered anything by any means, but I think we're starting to see the through line.

But it seemed like every time we did that, we kind of hunkered down and said, let's figure it out.

Let's get through this roadblock.

It just became more.

better and more fruitful and more joyful more purposeful on the other side and i think even in our marriage whenever it starts to get hard it's like okay i'm not going to avoid it we're actually going to confront it we're going to figure out how to work through it we're going to find um i don't know just we're just going to keep chugging along yeah

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