I think a substantial amount of life comes down to self-trust, to believing in yourself.

Right, but here's the thing, it's not blind belief. It's not toxic positivity where you close your eyes, cross your fingers, shut the world off,

and just assume things will work out because you're entitled to a great result.

No, what I'm referring to is an active and deliberate trusting of yourself to learn, to make the necessary adjustments

and to keep moving forward.

When we have faith in our ability to step forward and improve simultaneously, there is no defeat.

When you know you won't stop until you land where you want to land, then limitations

become a choice. Success in any capacity is a you thing, not an outside thing. And this popped

into my head a few days ago during, of all things, a game of axe throwing.

So, quick story from last weekend, a friend of mine and I, after a day of working on the podcast,

went down to Fort Lauderdale to this axe throwing place, which is, it's random, but it's a great time, simple concept.

There's this giant target, and you take turns throwing little axes at the target,

basically darts, right? If you think along those lines, and there were eight of us in the group.

They divide you into two teams of four and you play various games until the end.

Right?

In the end, there's this final session where it's every person for themselves.

It's like a free-for-all.

Each person gets three rounds to throw axes at the target.

And whoever has the best score wins. So think of the target just in a traditional way, right? The bull's eye or the little point in the middle is worth five.

Then the next smallest circle outside of that is four. Then three, then two, and then the biggest circle along the edge is worth one.

So whatever you hit with the axe, that's the points you get, except they put these two little blue dots on the top third of the circle.

And they say if you can hit one of these blue dots, you get 10 points.

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