Hang On
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Every single day when that alarm goes off, my brain goes through a rapid-fire list of reasons to stay in bed. It’s cold. It’s hot. Luna can use the yard. The students will be fine if we wing it. The boys are fine…if they needed me, they’d call, right?
Times are even harder now than normal, and I have to focus on putting one foot in front of another, not just day by day, but sometimes minute by minute. If I have learned nothing else over the last five decades, I have learned that I can do hard things. I don’t usually see just HOW hard those things are when I’m in the middle of them, and when I come out the other side it often feels like I am watching someone else do the Things. It brings me back to the Elephant. Lately it feels less like I am eating the Elephant and more like I am passing through its bowels instead. That isn’t the case…I am putting one foot in front of the other. If a whole bit is too much, take a nibble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OORsz2d1H7s
You can do this. You can do hard things, Dear One.
