I will win.

A statement often met with skepticism.

Who are you to say that or predict that for yourself?

Can you tell the future?

Well, there lies the misconception.

It has nothing to do with the future, does it?

The first requirement was that you show up.

And look at that, here you are.

Check.

The next requirement was that you move, but you don't even give yourself an opportunity to get cold feet.

You don't ponder worst case scenarios or sit on your hands worrying about the road ahead.

No, it's brain off, shoes on.

Check. Then comes the best part. People will tell you the deck is stacked against you,

the path comprised of difficulty, life too complex. But look, your job is not to engineer

the next rocket to Mars. It's to not stop. It's to put one foot in front of the other. How's that for simplicity?

They say that confidence is earned. And it seems to me that by putting yourself in this

position, you have earned a ticket to something greater. The privilege of stepping into that forbidden space,

the space 99 out of 100 don't dare touch.

And you know what I'm talking about.

When your body whispers its complaints to the mind

and man is it a good negotiator.

But today, right now, it's not good enough because you're here.

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