Find the joy in the process, and don’t always focus on the destination!

Nick, something I'd like to really ask, um, you know, from 25 Hours a Day, you alluded to the fact that successful people are able to always keep the light at the end of the tunnel in mind despite how dark and dreary things might be in a specific moment. And I know last year multiple times you had races canceled on you because of COVID and you're trying to get ready for the Boston Marathon. How did you keep that light in your mind of, I'm still going to qualify, I'm going to figure out how to run a sub-3-hour marathon, qualify for that, and how that has built to, you know, you wanting to do an ultramarathon like Leadville 100?

Yeah, man, I think This is something that a lot of us struggle with, but I think that I'm pretty good at it, but I'm always working to improve. And in Matthew McConaughey's book Greenlights, he talks about— and I think he's a really good example of this— finding the joy in the process and not always focusing on the destination. I think a lot of the times so many people are focused on the destination that they forget to enjoy that process, and I'm guilty of it too. There are times when I have to pull myself away from the situation and realize I'm not present in what I'm currently doing. I'm just focused on where I'm trying to get to.