Hardened Hooves Can Travel Anywhere

Are there any advantages to experiencing hardships?

Those days when you are pushed further than you ever thought you could go. Where it feels like the world is trying to tear you apart.

Is there a bright side or is all just doom and gloom?

I have good news. There is a positive. You see, tough times breed tough people. And tough people can survive anything.

Experiencing hardships makes difficult experiences in the future relatively easy. In a sense, you become numb to the minor pains.

A horse that spends its life in a soft marshy field will never develop hardened hooves. Their hooves will remain delicate and sensitive. However, the horse that spent its life on rough, hot terrain will develop calloused hooves that are able to withstand any ground. The horse that never left the soft marshy field will be forever confined to that field. The horse with hardened hooves can travel anywhere.

So, how can we harden our hooves?

Lucky for us, hardening our hooves won’t require us to go on long arduous hikes. We can do so by doing anything that pushes us further than we would comfortably go. Read for 2 hours. Run a 10k. Perform stand-up comedy. Sing karaoke at a bar. Talk about your business ideas with a friend. Do anything that is hard for you. If you do something hard enough times it becomes easy. And if you become the type of person that does hard things it makes everything doable.

So go out there, and leave your soft marshy pasture.