I'm talking to that football team, I'm talking to that baseball team, that basketball team,

I'm talking to that fighter, talking to that track star, I'm talking to that athlete,

I'm talking to that student, I'm talking to the person who failed the exam over and over

and over again.

I'm talking to that individual who feels as though all hope is lost, who feels as though

they gave it their all.

If you are still alive, you've got something left.

You still think failure is final.

You're going to learn to change the movie that is playing in your head.

In the moment that you stop thinking that failure is final and you shift your perspective

and you understand that failure is a lesson learned.

It is at that very moment that you can break out of the prison of fear, because this is

what happens when we fail, when we fall, fear creeps in.

Fear sedates us, fear immobilizes us, fear tells us that we're inflexible, we're incapable.

Fear tells us that we're irresponsible, fear tells us that we don't want it bad enough.

Fear impresses us, I'm getting out of this place, you can't over here any longer.

Fear says if you get up now and you try it again, you'll fail again, so stay here with me.

Fear is moody and resentful and lazy and self-condemic, and your future hinges on these

two words.

If you will listen, these two words can be your passport out of the prison of fear.

If nobody has told you this, let me tell you now.

I know you failed, but get up.

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