As some of you may or may not know, I have a chalk board in the gym that I will write quotes on it for everyone to read. Some stay up for a long period of time, while others may have a short life span on the board. Well yesterday I was listening to one of my favorite bands (Social Distortion). One of the lines Mike Ness wrote was "What's Life Without A Little Pain". It got me fired up and thinking. What is life without a little pain. Boring, unadventurous, doesn't teach us anything, shallow, easy, fake etc. you get the picture. There is a quote that goes "I Am Stronger Then My Excuses" well another piece should be added onto that and that is "I Am Also Stronger Then My Pain". To often I see people giving up when a little pain or adversity gets in the way. What are we going to learn or teach those that surround us if we quit at the first sign of some pain in our lives, weather it be physical, emotional, mental or plain old fatigue pain. Pain is where we become stronger, where we learn the most about ourselves and what we our made of as individuals. We should run from a little pain. We should confront it, embrace it, walk over top of and look back and smile at it with the look "You Aint Going To Beat Me Today".  So remember you have the capability in you to be "Stronger Then Your Excuses and Your Pain".