I am a work in progress, just like you as well. And like every other human being, I make mistakes on a constant basis. If you’re not making mistakes regularly, you’re playing too small. And I’ve experienced great victories, but I’ve also endured crushing defeats, although I’ve trained my brain to see those platforms of growth and progress and wisdom-building opportunities. Because I’ve dreamed so big and pushed so hard, I’ve also fallen very hard and I’ve got the scars to show it. I think you’re the same. Life is meant to be lived out loud and played in the arena. I so love and adore the quote of Teddy Roosevelt that has got me through a lot of my painful times, “It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strongman stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who valiantly strives, who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”Please don’t fall into the thinking trap that you don’t have what it takes to become amazing at what you do. And one of the most successful people that you know, and a game-changer, a true game-changer that inspires all witnesses.
