People have always told me, “You must have sacrificed so much to accomplish what you have.” I’ve always thought that was a weird comment. Yes I went to competitions instead of floating the river with friends. Yes I trained during breaks when others took vacations. Yes I left high school my final semester because they wouldn’t allow me enough days off to attend the international meets I qualified for. Yes I left a full college scholarship to attempt to make the Olympic Team. Yes I opted for no surgery and to endure pain for that same Olympic pursuit. Yes, I chose to go off roading instead of taking the easy, smooth, straight forward path. But I CHOSE that. I never felt like it was a sacrifice. It was what I WANTED to do. And it’s not that I never had opportunities to do fun things, it’s just that what I CHOSE was more fun and exciting to me. I made well thought out decisions in each one of those circumstances. Every time you find yourself in a difficult situation, you have...