Tremendous Tracey

Out of a 9-day journey, five days involved airports, two nights were spent on airport floors, and one sketchy hotel room. But those four days in Belize? Watching my husband Mike reconnect with his friend of 48 years made every bit of turbulence worth it. The journey there was hard. The journey back was hard. But what happened in the middle? That's where the magic lives. Don't stop Belizing.

In the kingdom of Leadership, there lived two knights of equal skill and training. Both faced the same fire-breathing dragons, the same treacherous terrain, the same impossible quests. But their approaches couldn't have been more different.

Sir Mount charged into every battle with his sword held high. When the dragon breathed fire, he didn't retreat—he found another path around. When his quest went sideways (and they always did), he adapted and pressed forward. When others needed rescuing from the tower, Sir Mount was the first to volunteer, knowing full well the climb would be brutal.

Sir Render, on the other hand, had a different strategy: surrender before the battle even began. He saw the fire-breathing dragon and immediately catalogued all the ways he'd get burned. He viewed every quest as proof that the kingdom was doomed. When asked to rescue others, he'd list seventeen reasons why it was impossible.