Sometimes what you don't do is more powerful than what you do.

Sometimes the answer is not the home run or some lifetime achievement award.

No, sometimes the answer is simply hanging on.

Realizing that the yes is, they're important.

But they're nothing compared to the noes.

No, to the faint whispering that you can't.

No to the feelings of inadequacy and no to the reflection staring back at you that just feels ordinary.

As that feeling it's wrong.

And what this means, as I was once told, is that success is not always the spectacular.

Sometimes it is simply hanging on when others would let go.

When the world would hear that same faint whisper and bow down

because, oh, we all hear it.

Life is not a movie.

There is no fixed ending.

And where there are unknowns, there is fear.

That's not rocket science.

Unknown's equal fear. But if I may, let me explain something.

Because where there is fear, there is also something else.

And that something is opportunity.

Like a curtain that must be pulled back, an ocean that must be crossed or a toll that must be paid.

While you dance to melodies of songs unwritten and are led by the characters in stories untold,

this is not a game of the miraculous. This is a game of self-belief. A game of not

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