Behold the turtle�who makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
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We have to take chances. The only thing in life that is absolutely certain is that if you don't try, you don't succeed. You don't score a touchdown by trying to punt. You'll never hit a home run, trying to bunt. Obviously, making one attempt never guarantees, success... but making NO attempts always guarantees NO accomplishment!
As the great hockey player Wayne Gretzky once said "You miss EVERY shot that you DON'T take".
You have to stick your neck out. To succeed, you have to risk failure, and if in that attempt you fail... so what? You just try again. As Socrates said, "there is no shame in falling down, the shame is in not getting back up"
Babe Ruth, is remembered as the home run king, not the strike out king, but in 1923, he not only broke the single season home run record, he also broke the strike out record. He also held the record for career strikeouts until it was broken by the great Mickey Mantle.
How many home runs do you think he would have hit if he were worried about the failure of a strikeout?
We all want to hit homeruns. But we are also afraid of striking out. The reality of like is this... you can't have one without the other.
Simply put, do you want to be successful? Do you want a life full of home runs? Then you must swing that bat! You have to go for the fences and be willing to strike out. Remember, you will never hit a home run by trying to bunt. Swing that bat. You have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to fail, OFTEN! If you miss, don't worry about it. Be like Babe Ruth, just keep on swinging!
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Joel Pyles
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