Will we rise to the challenge, or will we hang our heads in defeat? From the viewpoint of an obstacle course, Kelly takes you through the five strategies we tend to encounter throughout our lives: Recovery, Discovery, Persistency, Creativity, and Collaboration. From this perspective, she weaves in humor with a healthy dose of reality to provide antidotes on how to overcome the challenges we face not only on the obstacle course on race day, but also throughout our lives. Walking you through her family's eight-year, & still going, journey of obstacle course races she shares with you why they were so integral to her husband's recovery from brain surgery, the aging process, raising a family, starting a business, and overcoming other health issues. The five strategies you will be guided through: - Recovery: Identify what you are healing from and what goals will help you succeed - Discovery: Find your purpose to decide what to take on and what to walk around - Persistency: Understand when pure grit is the only way you will reach your goals - Creativity: Challenge your imagination to find new ways to overcome an obstacle - Collaboration: Recognize when teamwork is needed in order to accomplish the task Armed with these five strategies from Lessons from the Obstacle Course as your training guide, get ready to take on and conquer any obstacle you encounter on the muddy fields in life!