Go. Fight. Win.

No matter what your day holds I hope you take these words with you. You got this! Go. Fight. Win.

Somedays things seem bright and shiny. Possibility is brimming. The sky is the limit and all that other positive stuff. Then there are days where responsibility somehow colors dreams with impossibility and all the bright shiny things appear far, far away. It is on those days that I need this phrase the most.

Go. Fight. Win. Is something I started saying more as an internal self-motivating thing. Slowly, the saying found its way out of my brain and became my go to way to close out conversations and meetings. There is not an exact point I can recall this transition happening, but it did. I have said it so much now that my coworkers and friends now end conversations and meetings with this phrase.

I can't help but smile because we all need a little encouragement to tackle whatever is on our list no matter how we feel, I cannot tell you the number of times that I genuinely have to talk myself step by step through accomplishing a task because I am, for one reason or another, not motivated or lack the energy. Life gets overwhelming and sometimes I feel like Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games. The part where she is having to move through the grief and pain of losing Rue. (I will forever be a Hunger Games fan girl)

Some days that is me. Each task gets its own internal command. "Now you have to get out of bed, Stephanie. Now you have to work out. Now you have to log into work." Most days somewhere in the middle of my work out my funk lifts and I feel ready to take on the day, but there are times when the heaviness drapes around me clinging like the humidity I so desperately miss of south Texas.

On those days, the days when I can't shake the funk, I need these three little words the most. I need to tell myself to Go. Go do what needs to be done. Take care of your responsibilities. Fight, I need to remind myself to fight. Fight through the heavy feelings because this will pass. Win, this reminder that I have been here before and no matter how many times the heaviness threatens to pull me down, in the end, I always win.

If you have read this far, I hope you find encouragement in the knowledge that you are not alone in your heavy days. You have a fantastic track record for making it through each heavy moment. No matter what your day holds I hope you take these words with you. You got this! Go. Fight. Win.