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CONTROLLING THE PIVOT

“LONG TERM GOALS ARE IMPORTANT TO MAINTAINING MOTIVATION. HOLD TO THOSE BIG DREAMS.”

Not everything goes according to plan. You have clear goals and the training to achieve them, you’re primed and ready to fire, and then the world shifts and lays waste to your plan. That’s 2020, normally those shifts are personal, like getting an injury, but this time the ground has moved under us all. And it’s going to keep moving.

One of the hardest parts of the past year has been the uncertainty. One day it’s business as

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