“I provided for my family through a stretch that nearly broke me.”
Holding the line when it nearly breaks you — and holding it for others — is the definition of this tenet in action. What you carried was real. The people you held up may never fully know the weight. That doesn't diminish the act.
Your Practice
Now that you're through the hard stretch, take stock of what it cost you personally. Rest is not weakness — it is maintenance. Identify one thing you neglected about yourself during that period and give it deliberate attention this week. You cannot protect others long-term if you run yourself to empty.
The Architects
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing; and this is a prize open to every man, for there can be no better worth doing than that done to keep in health and comfort and with reasonable advantages those immediately dependent upon the husband, the father, or the son.”