We all need a word of encouragement from time to time.

So I want this to be that word.

So let me tell you what I know.

You can change.

No matter what you think of yourself,

humans are designed to change.

That's what we do.

But you have to put yourself underneath tremendous stress

in order to trigger that adaptation response.

But if you know what direction you want to move in,

if you know what you want to become,

you can change into that.

And so holding onto the fears and the doubts

and the worries, they're not serving you

and looping around that mentally and wondering

if you're going to make it and practicing mentally,

how you would deal with the failure,

how you would justify it to people.

All of that is stopping you from doing the one thing

that actually will work, trying, practicing,

training, falling down.

Those are the very things that you need to do,

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