Feeling Beat Up?

“You will never know how much it cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”

– John Adams

Yea, it’s part of the climb. To be on the path, to be going forward, means you’re going to get dinged up along the way.

It’s not a foreign concept or new take. It’s just simple and true.

As you’re in pursuit of what’s been placed on your heart and mind, that journey will take a toll.

You’ll get tired.

You’ll get frustrated.

You’ll want to quit.

We get told a lot of lies through social media about the end product. The family picture perfect post that has it all together. The reel with a killer hook that leaves you feeling like maybe you don’t have it right.

It can make it seem like we should have it all together.

But the reality is, we’re all working on something. If we’re all working on something, then we have to strive. To strive means we’re putting in effort. Effort means we’re expending energy. Energy has cost. Energy requires fuel and rest. Energy can run out and fail.

We can fail.

To get to better, we need to expend energy and trade it for experience. The experience of doing something, win or lose, can’t be taken away. But it can be built upon.

So if you’re tired and beat up, it means you can build upon the thing that got you there to begin with.

Dust off. Take the breather. Refuel. But keep going.

Smarten up from the lessons learned and don’t be afraid to ask for help, but keep going.

Adam Jarosz is the founder of Righteous Co. and author of “Iron Ore: Journal of a Man” – a brand built on faith, adventure, and purpose. With over twenty years of experience in ministry and business, Adam leads retreats, coaches leaders, and writes from the trenches of real-life discipleship, while equipping others to live boldly and faithfully. He’s a husband, father of four, and believer in Christ and His Church, the power of grit and grace, and good fellowship. Follow along for insights that challenge, encourage, and call you higher with his newsletter, The Climb.