{my favorite flavor of CLIF Bar}

Enjoying the struggle.
What does that even mean?

Let me explain.

Most of the things I do in my life I don’t love doing. So I find things to love and get excited about the things I have to do. 

One example would be my (day) job. I don’t mind, and some days even enjoy, my job. But, I rarely get super excited to get up at 4:30 am to go to work.

So I try to think of the things about work that I do enjoy. 

I like my commute. My commute is my time to listen to podcasts. 

I like the people I work with. Our personalities are diverse and I find that interesting and sometimes even entertaining. 

There’s always something that needs to be done. I never get bored at work. I also learn a lot at work.

The struggle is being away from my family, and doing the things I want to do that I can’t do at work. 

Embracing/enjoying the struggle is seeking out things within the imperfect situation you find yourself, or choose to be, in that make you enjoy that situation.

The perfect food situation would be to be able to eat whatever I want whenever I want without feeling sick, gaining weight, or having any negative consequences whatsoever.

That’s not real and I have goals. So I have to get excited about the foods I eat and don’t eat! Sometimes I have to pretend to love what I’m doing because it’s worth it to me. And it’s actually good for me, so that’s a bonus!