For Those Who Want To Stop Hustling One Day

Hamster on a wheel.

My wife has hijacked a mantra I say to myself before doing something uncomfortable. “Mongol Rally.” Conjuring up the memory of the almost 10,000-mile journey reminds me that — whatever I’m currently facing — I’ve done hard things. I will get through this.

I say she hijacked it because while I might say it to myself before a trek, a speech, or a marathon day of travel, now she says it to…