You need to fall

You need to fall:

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You need to fall.

To fail.

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To crater.

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To understand what it’s like to be on the ground.

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As Mike Tyson once said 

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‘Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.’

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That’s life.

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Life will punch you in the mouth.

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Again and again.

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What are you going to do about it?

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Sit down and take it?

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Or stand up?

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Fight back?

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Adjust your strategy.

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Get back up after being knocked down.

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The choice is up to you.

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Many choose the first.

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It’s been ingrained in them from when they were a kid.

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They didn’t see success.

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They didn’t have good role models.

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People always put them down.

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So they internalized it.

They believed that lie.

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That they’ll never amount to anything.

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So they stopped trying.

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What’s the point right?

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Wrong.

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You get one life.

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That’s it.

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It could all disappear tomorrow.

It may not feel like it, but it can.

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Trust me.

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And if you haven’t experienced that reality, it will come for you.

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When you least expect it.

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A family member or friend.

Gone.

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Just like that.

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They were just here.

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You were just talking to them.

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Now they’re gone.

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Forever.

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Never to be seen or heard from again.

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You don’t think that can happen.

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Yet it does every day.

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It’s a reminder that this life is so finite.

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So precious.

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So why are you wasting it?

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Why are you letting it go by?

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Here’s a secret no one will ever tell you.

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No one is coming to save you.

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No one.

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It’s you against you.

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As Naval said.

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You are born alone.

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You die alone.

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How you interpret the experiences in between is up to you.

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But you do get a choice.

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You do get to choose how you see the world.

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As one full of opportunity.

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Or one that is destructive.

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Do you use your experiences as teaching lessons?

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Or do you retreat when you fail?

Do you learn from your mistakes?

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Or do you let your past eat away at you?

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Because you have a choice.

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How you interpret failure is up to you.

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Many see it as a setback.

Maybe it is.

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But it’s also an opportunity.

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An opportunity to improve.

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To be better.

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To progress.

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To learn.

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That’s what mistakes are.

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They teach you.

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No one learns anything in success.

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You only learn in failure.

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So fail more.

Fall more.

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It’s the pathway to living a full and fulfilled life.

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You ned to fall.

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