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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Today I want to share a story that asks a pivotal question.

When faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges, do you have the bravery to not just question

the finality of expert opinions, but to act decisively on your instincts?

Here's the story. Natalie was 20 and pregnant. She and her husband, Martin, wanted a baby girl.

The couple lived in a two-family house in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was a modest but happy home, not far from the railroad yards and the docks.

Martin was a small businessman.

He owned a tavern in town, Natalie, in addition to taking care of the house, was a nurse, and now she was pregnant.

All through the fall, the expected parents made plans for the new arrival. They wondered

what day she would be born and whom she will take after. They were so certain of a daughter

that the young mother purchased all pink baby clothing. How frivolous those considerations must

have seen on that chilly December morning so many years ago.

Natalie's mother, Rosa, had been up with her daughter most of the night.

It was a difficult labor, and now, by Dawn's early light, still no child.

Now Mama Rosa, as she was called, having born nine children of her own,

had developed a reliable intuition about these things, and she knew that this

time something was terribly wrong.

By the time Dr. Peterson arrived, Natalie was many hours into her labor.

A quick examination revealed the difficulty.

The child was simply too large and unable to move.

It would have to be a so-called for-seps delivery.

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