Ignore the Critics, Dare Greatly

I have been way too mesmerized by this today..lol The human brain is amazing! We underestimate our abilities and allow fear to hinder us far too often. We all have those aspirations that fill us with excitement at the prospect of achieving them and yet the thought of pursuing them and failing is terrifying. Whatever that is for you, do it! Your excitement and fear is very like this image, whatever you focus on changes your direction. Ignore the critics, dare greatly.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt


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