Solutions are always there!

Sometimes, it can be hard to see the solutions that are right in front of you. It can be hard to find the path that's right with all the noise.

There's an idea that I've been toying with a lot lately.

The idea of going out of your way to make life a little harder for yourself. To present challenges and obstacles to yourself in an effort to grow and improve and overcome these challenges.

In warrior cultures, it was a natural thing to present the warriors with numerous obstacles as they grew up.

Spartans were notorious for this.

From the age of (I believe it was 8 years old), Spartan boys were separated from their mothers and taken to a sort of training camp with other Spartan boys of the same age.

They slept on the ground, outside.

They ate pig blood stew--> which apparently was one of the most vile foods you could imagine and they also weren't fed large portions of it...

They were encouraged to steal, but getting caught was to be punished by whipping and some boys even died from the pain.

Spartans are obviously an extreme example, but you see where I'm going with this.

We all benefit from having more challenges and hardship in life. We can all grow and learn from it.