stretch - don't stress

"Stretch - Don't stress" Is what Sister Sabin wanted us to understand and try to input that into our lives. If you are obedient, keep your covenants, and love God you are going to be fine, so don't stress. 

And if you aren't, simply repent and start doing them, and keep on repenting over and over and over and over and over and over... You can't ever give up. That's the only thing. If you give up, then give up on giving up, and start back up again! If you throw your hands up in the air and say "this is impossible! This just can't be for me, maybe other people, it's not my thing" you're wrong. And that's the truth of the gospel. I mess up so many times it's not even funny. The amount of times I've needed serious repenting in my life is not what I would like, but it's better that I did, than give up.

So, as long as you don't give up you can do it. 

Elder Liam Wiscombe

Letter from his Oregon Salem full-time mission. May 20, 2024

you're tougher than you think you are

We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

Christopher McDougall

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2011. 

make friends with pain

“Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.

Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. by Christopher McDougall. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2011. 

we were born to run

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle--behold, the Running Man.

Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love--everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires' it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run. We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known.”

 

Christopher McDougall

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2011. 

answers to your problems after a four-hour run

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

Christopher McDougall

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2011. 

you get old because you stop running

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

Christopher McDougall

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2011.