What are you willing to go all in on? In this episode we highlight some stories about commitment and pouring your heart into something. When the feeling of desire and excitement leaves for your goals, do you give up (we’ve been there in either case)?

Daughters who give it their all running for track and fieldMissed opportunitiesThe evil snooze buttonChicago Sunrise Bike Ride and some Deadheads.

Ty: Okay.Chase: Cool. We’ve been rolling.Ty: Awesome, we’re rolling! You wanna start us off?Chase: Yeah, welcome to Love Strong! Welcome to Wholehearted! It’s the series we are going with now. (Laughter)

Ty: It’s good to be here with you guys. We didn’t know if we were actually going to be able to get anything in today because I’ve been gone down to Provo, Utah for the state championships for track and field the last two days. Chase was good enough to come up and watch my two younger girls while I was down there. I wasn’t sure we’re going to get into this, but I’m glad we did today.

Chase: Yeah it’s kind of amazing because you’ve been feeling not great! You said you’ve been feeling sick last night with a headache, and feverish right now. If I’m being honest, you look a little bit like a lobster, a little crab-like!

(Laughter)

Ty: I literally feel like I’m sunburned, but I know I’m not sunburned because it rained for two straight days and I was under an umbrella the whole time. But I feel like–it’s like in Napoleon Dynamite–it’s like vote for Pedro. I would need to go home and just shave my head because I feel like that right now. (Laughter) It feels really hot! So hopefully it’ll die down here, but I do feel like a lobster right now. While I was down there at this track and field thing, there were a couple of things that just ran through me that I think applied to some of the things that I’m working on, and specially in terms of this project that we’re working with. The first insight that I really had–and I think it’s worth everyone that’s listening to think about–is what places is in your life are you willing to go all in? And the reason I say that is because I’m down there for two days watching race after race after race, and in just about every race you can tell there was a kid in that race that just left everything there. Whether they won or not was beside the point: they left everything there. I think one of my most favorite things in the entire world is to watch somebody put themselves in an arena and give everything! One of the biggest treats for me just this weekend was how my daughter’s–both of them–ran. Lexi, a freshman, ran and she is on a big stage for the first time. It’s just really neat to see her–so I think she’s got the same fever thing because she was bright red and said she didn’t feel very good–but she still went out there and gave everything she had. She actually out-performed what she was supposed to do, and it’s is really cool to see. Madison, my older one she sometimes has a tendency to hold things back a little bit. I think she’s afraid of failing and she almost hedges her bets by leaving a little in the tank, sometimes. Today in her 1-mile 1600 race, she played it just right and then she didn’t win the race. She ended up I think 10th or 11th overall in the state.

Chase: It’s pretty incredible for a sophomore!

Ty: Yeah, for a sophomore not bad, you know? Really what I was so proud of was watching her as she came around that final turn: I could see that she was hurting and I thought she was just going to kind of nestle in behind a couple of these girls in front of her,