How do you handle hard things?

“We all wait in life for things to get easier. As in “Aww…I just gotta get through this…and then it will be easy!” It’s what we do. We wait for stuff to get easier.

It will never get easier. What happens is you become someone who handles hard stuff better…so that’s a mental shift that has to occur in each of your brains. Because if you go around waiting for stuff to get easier in life, it’s never going to happen.

Make yourself a person that handles hard well, not someone that's waiting for the easy. Because if you have a meaningful pursuit in life, it will never be easy. If you're trying to win a championship, if you're trying to have a family. Ask your parents. Do you think it was ever easy for them to raise kids? If you want to be successful, it goes to the people that handle hard well. Those are the people that get the stuff they want. The people that wait around for easy? You probably see them at the bus stop. They’re waiting for the easy bus to come around.”

— Kara Lawson, Duke Women’s Basketball Coach

Today’s Question: Sometimes we wait for the easy bus to come around. That’s human nature. But in what ways are you learning to handle hard better?