Kevin's Challenge

Sometimes it is not just about sweating and getting tired. Sometimes our mind is what needs to be conditioned. This challenge was just that it was a strenuous and many a time the challengers wanted to quit. The way the challenge went was that there were three islands that they needed to get their team mates through. Now at any time you could not have any more than two challengers on any island and if they fell into the pit they would have to start again. Once they got their teammate to safety they were then to run down the field to the end zone and there waiting for them was a golf ball and two PVC pipe. One pipe was small enough to hold the ball but the other was too large. Their next challenge was to get that golf ball from one end of the field to another without dropping it. Now each challenger had to touch each PVC pipe and pass it to the next challenger. To say they least this took quite a while to complete. They kept dropping the golf ball and having to start over again. On one occasion the red team made it two thirds of the way there and then dropped to golf ball. It took the Blue team over 1 hour to complete this task.
Here is the lesson it was trying to teach them. You are going to fail more than you will succeed, but everytime you fail and have to start again you will get just little further to your goal. How many times have you been told that you are just who you are that that you need to just deal with it. “Oh, Sue it just THICK BONED so she just needs to deal with that and accept it”. How many times have we heard that. If we let society continue to dictate to use who we are, we will never amount to much in life. After failing at that golf ball relay 18 times everyone was telling the blue team to pack it in. But they did not and finally they did it and they were better people for it. Good job to everyone who took place in the challenge. Keep your head up and remember when life beats you down get up and try again. Soon enough you will win.