Determination

Personal response to text assignment Lance Armstrong <Tab/>Determination is the quality of being determined to do or achieve something, determination can push your body to its limits, and Armstrong was pushed to his limits. When you train yourself physically and mentally for one ultimate goal and you fall on your journey toward it, it's a huge feet to get back on that road toward that goal. Armstrong fell and the …

…told him hockey. <Tab/>My neck injury taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason and that sometimes the experience of losing things whether health or a car or an old sense of self has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.