Rise and shine, its 6am and your hand can't make it to the alarm clock before the voices
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.