"Do hard things. Life if full of challenges - embrace them and don’t run away from them. From the time you start school you will be challenged with various topics and classes. Some will be easy for you and some hard. The hard ones will stretch your mind and make you smarter. Don’t be afraid to fail. You still learn when you fail and sometimes your failures help you learn even more than your successes.
Doing sports and exercise can also be hard, but have great long term affects on your body, mind and spirit. Take a runner for example. They train every day by running more and more miles, putting their body through a hard workout. The runs can sometimes be difficult and painful, but at the end of each run they get a “runners high”, both physically and mentally. They have done something hard and the long term affect is to make them stronger and more able to deal with normal activities, both physical and mental.
The opposite of doing hard things is taking the easy way out - like doing drugs. Doing drugs makes life easier for the moment, but in the long run your body gets used to comfort that the drugs provide and you end up feeling worse when the drugs wear off. The long term affects are your inability to handle every day life.
Challenge yourself. The more you do, the better you will feel in the long run."
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