4. Remember pain is temporary. In this chapter, Lance Armstrong reminds us that pain only lasts for a while. But if we quit, it will last forever.

5. Call on divine intervention. Sometimes, when we feel we just can’t make it one more step, we need a power higher than us to turn to and ask for that final push. A friend of mine, Sandy, puts the names of people who have made a difference in her life and whom she wants to honor, on twenty-six separate scraps of paper when she is running marathons. She pulls out a name for each mile, calling on that special person in her life to help guide her and to muster the courage and strength to make it to the next mile marker. What you are dreaming for lies just around the corner. Don’t give up.