Stephen Covey once said “Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition, such as lifting weights, we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.” I have a physical challenge that causes my feet to hurt, but through Stephen Covey I’ve not only learned how to conquer my feet issues, I’ve also learned great accountability and major responsibility. His words have inspired me to not only help me through my feet issues, but also have made me into a better person.
Because of my physical issue, when I run or walk a lot my feet start to hurt a lot. My physical issue is called planterficious and it basically causes inflammation in my arches and in the middle of my feet. Every sport I’m in I either have to walk, jog, and sometimes sprint. I was terrified to join soccer because all you do is run and run. I didn’t realize how much it would impact my life until I joined soccer and ran for 4 hours the first day. I was so scared the first day because of my feet issues! …show more content…
We ran for almost 4 hours without even touching a soccer ball. Right when we got there, we had to run a complex which is running around the whole soccer complex and it’s about 0.7 miles. Our coach encouraged us to run our fastest and get our best time, so that everyday we can challenge ourselves to get better everyday and get a better time. After the first day of soccer tryouts I was dead, I wanna to skip the rest of the week and just come back when tryouts were over. My feet were so inflamed and I could barely walk when I got home. I never thought I was out of shape until I experienced the first day of soccer tryouts, it was the most I’ve ever
Because of my physical issue, when I run or walk a lot my feet start to hurt a lot. My physical issue is called planterficious and it basically causes inflammation in my arches and in the middle of my feet. Every sport I’m in I either have to walk, jog, and sometimes sprint. I was terrified to join soccer because all you do is run and run. I didn’t realize how much it would impact my life until I joined soccer and ran for 4 hours the first day. I was so scared the first day because of my feet issues! …show more content…
We ran for almost 4 hours without even touching a soccer ball. Right when we got there, we had to run a complex which is running around the whole soccer complex and it’s about 0.7 miles. Our coach encouraged us to run our fastest and get our best time, so that everyday we can challenge ourselves to get better everyday and get a better time. After the first day of soccer tryouts I was dead, I wanna to skip the rest of the week and just come back when tryouts were over. My feet were so inflamed and I could barely walk when I got home. I never thought I was out of shape until I experienced the first day of soccer tryouts, it was the most I’ve ever