If you've ever had a moment in your life that you have measured yourself and come up short,

if you've ever poured yourself into an individual, a company, a place, or thing, and didn't get the

results you expected, then this one is for you. When life is beating you down, and you lose your job, you lose your money, you lose your

spouse, you feel like you can't do it anymore, when you feel that pain creeping in, you feel

that defeat, you must remind yourself of how tough you really are.

This is not the first time you've gone through pain.

This is not the first time you've felt the sting of failure.

You've got to remember that every time you're going through adversity, it is making you stronger.

You are not being burned.

You are being forged.

You're being forged into a beast.

But it's not going to be easy.

No, it's going to try and rip you apart.

It's going to break you down

before you can have the opportunity

to build yourself back up.

You're going to feel overwhelmed and stressed out

of your mind and don't know what to do next to solve the problems you're facing

but when you can put yourself in a position where you decide that you won't give

yourself a way out you won't allow the darkness to win. You won't accept failure as an outcome. One way

or another, you will find a way through it. It's going to be a dog fight. It's going to be rough

as hell. It's going to knock you to your knees and keep beating you. But you got to make up in

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