Welcome to Fit for Your Mind Friday, where I share an insight from me to you.

Recently on Instagram, I posted a picture of me as a baby, and you can still find it up there.

If you look at it, my gosh, I was born with like eight rolls on my arms. In fact,

people would stop my mom when I was a baby and say, oh, what a big bruiser you have there.

And my mom would joke and say, I would dress you in pink and ruffles and put a bow in your hair.

And people would still say, oh, what a big bruiser you have there. I was born a really big baby, and I just kept

expanding until I was a toddler. It's really comical if you could find this image of me. But what I

want to share with you all today is that we're born a blank slate. You know, where everybody is

born a blank slate as a baby, and then life starts to happen. And, you know, where everybody is born a blank slate as a baby. And then life starts

to happen. And, you know, I personally have failed and fallen down more times than I can count,

so many times. And all of those moments of failure, every single one of them could have killed

my confidence. And sometimes it did for some moments or some days or even some months. You know,

as a baby, as I shared, I was fat. Eight rolls on my arm like the Michelin Man. If you don't know who

the Michelin Man is, Google it. That's what I look like as a baby. And literally, people would

stop my mom and say, what a big bruiser you got there. So that was the beginning of messing up my blank slate,

right? But in elementary school, to give you an example, I was, I remember the day very

vividly. I was in elementary school. I must have been in second or third grade. And I remember

being at the playground and trying to fit in and talk to some kids. And this girl named Tracy

came up to me and she said,

you're ugly and she punched me. First time I had ever been punched in my life. As an elementary

school kid, if you can imagine that, and I started believing I'm ugly. And then in fourth grade,

I remember being at a new school, I moved to a new elementary school, was making new friends

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