Hey friends, thanks for tuning in to my second episode of Torey dealing with, where each

episode will be short, sweet, and the perfect thing to enjoy in the morning, just like your

coffee. Hopefully, this will inspire you to get up and be excited for the day that lies

ahead. This episode is going to be opening up about a certain topic that is going really

heavy on my present mind, and that is failure. You know that feeling when you want something

so bad. You've trained for it, you feel like you deserve it, and right when you think

you have it in the grass with your hands, it just crumbles. That's failure. It's painful,

it's embarrassing, and it is a huge blow to your ego. I know that many of you probably

can't exactly relate to the feeling of being eliminated on national television, but

I know you can relate to it in your everyday lives. Failure can creep into your life in

many areas, including relationships, jobs, fitness, personal goals, and even not drinking

an amount of water that you plan to drink that day. The potential for failure and success

both exist in every goal that you create. Whenever you make a goal for yourself and

you fall short, you experience failure. While filming the season of the challenge

total madness, I made a bold move to throw myself into an elimination. I didn't win the

daily challenge, make it into tribunal, and have the power to observe the elimination,

and then choose if I wanted to go in or not. Nope, I told the whole house to vote me in,

and put me into purgatory blindly. Looking back on it, I really wonder where I got my balls

from. There were a few factors that led me to making that decision, though. First, after

last season of the challenge, where the world's two, I felt so defeated. I came so close to winning

that final, and I lost trying to complete a puzzle hours before my team won. That loss left a taste

in my mouth for a win, and now I was just starving for it. The second reason is that season I was

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