I don't care who you are.

Life is going to knock you down.

How you handle rejection determines whether you will be successful in life.

Do you know what rejection does to self-esteem?

Do you understand how personal this is?

I'm talking about what happens in your stomach. I'm talking about

the taste of bowel in your mouth that comes out of your liver because it's not just that

the door is closed. The closing of the door says you ain't no man. You ain't no man. You ain't

nothing. And this is a crisis. And it brings up every

negative thing that has ever been said about you in your whole life. You get to make a choice.

Is failure going to break you or is failure going to make you? You get to decide

failure doesn't. It's okay to fall. It's okay to cry. It's okay to go home, but quitting

should never be an option. It's not in falling that makes us failures. It's in not getting

up that makes us failures.

And you get to decide if you get up or you don't get up.

We're going to take setbacks. We're going to take some defeats from time to time in our lives.

And when that happens, what that actually does and what that actually should do is make your vision clear.

Make your mission clear.

You'll be forced to focus harder on what's needed to be done.

You'll be forced to reassess your approach, reassess your strategy,

rearmor your mind to test your mental strength.

The point of rejection is the place where faith is proven. When you're under the weight of devastation, your faith will stand trial.

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