It’s worth the fight.  It’s worth the pain.  It’s worth the pressure.  It’s worth the sacrifice.  Staying focused and persistently moving towards your goal is worth the experiences along the way.  There are opportunities to find out what you are really made of, what’s really on the inside of you.  There are opportunities to identify areas that need more maturation, more molding, and more shaping.  There are opportunities to put into practice many of the things that you’ve been taught, have believed, and have embraced as principles by which you live.  There are opportunities to discover that you’ve grown, overcome, and surpassed the place where you’d been stuck for so long.  It’s worth the fight.  It’s worth the pain.  It’s worth the pressure.  It’s worth the sacrifice.  When the victory, the goal, the destination is a reality and success is at hand, looking back at the fight, pain, pressure, and sacrifice then become points of reference to which you can refer as a part of the process that helped you attain the prize.  Those same points of reference can be used to help encourage others who are experiencing their own journey.  Those same points of reference can become your badges, your stars, and can be referred to as your stepping stones.  Yes, the fight, pain, pressure, and sacrifice are a part of the process. Work them to your advantage.  It’s worth it!