By Kelsey Humphreys — 2016
We’ve all felt it. It starts when you have good a routine going and you get into a nice, comfortable rhythm. Newness and uncertainty, any kind of change really is scary, so we work to squelch them.
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Grit is very good to call upon in problematic situations like becoming paralyzed.
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