The one constant in life - it’s going to throw you curve balls. How you adjust to that curve ball is going to come from the things you’ve held sacred: your values, and the meaning you prescribe to them.

“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…and to venture in the highest is precisely to become conscious of one’s self.” - Soren Kierkegaard

Growth comes out of the cauldron of adversity.

We can not develop resilience, ‘mental toughness’ nor can we refine grit without the uncomfortable immersion in adversity. Sometimes we can choose the challenge. Sometimes the challenge chooses us.