If you’re like most people your knee jerk reaction when things get hard is to give up. Our primal brain likes it when life is on auto-pilot, because we don’t have to spend energy on thinking and making decisions.

You know what happens when you eat poorly, miss sleep, worry about money and get locked in your home? You ruminate. You get anxious. You get depressed. And when you get depressed, you stop exercising.

I was driving when I got the phone call. “Dad has cancer.” Everything around me seemed to slow down. When you get a reality check like this, it can feel like nothing matters except the one thing staring you in the face…