In case you need to hear this...
Can you relate? This may not necessarily be related to basketball but recently I have felt like I am giving life my all. I'm building a business, going to college, working a job, going to the gym, and also trying to balance a social life (not happening lol). At times, it can feel hopeless. And yes... I STRUGGLE TOO! Just because someone has a strong mindset, that doesn't mean they are not susceptible to negative thinking and downward spirals. But what I have learned over the past few weeks is that, whether you worry or don't worry, if you do the actions required, it's gonna be the same result in the end. For example. Let's say a farmer plants a seed. He waters it, and tends to it when needed. The seed grows into a nice plant that he can harvest. Now we have another farmer. He planted a seed, watered it, and tended to it when needed. But this farmer worried whether or not the seed would grow. The seed did in fact grow and the plant was ready for harvest. The outcome was the same both times, but one farmer wasted his time and energy while the other just reaped what he had sown. So remember, Matthew 6:25-34. Read below. Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life? And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?