Let's Go Down Standing Up!

   “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”  I remember having that question asked of me by a motivational speaker when I was in high school.  He was doing his best to try and convince us that most people are defeated before they ever get started, because they never really thought they could win in the first place.

   The world of athletics is a great place to find slogans because so much of what is accomplished is done by the sheer will of overcoming what one’s mind says cannot be done.

   “The body can achieve what the mind can believe!”

   “Quitters never win and winners never quit!”

   “You can take the dog out of the fight but you can never take the fight out of the dog!”

   “When all is said and done, more is usually said than done!”

   “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

   I am sure you could add a few quotes of your own. But the bottom line is, your greatest opponent is often yourself. The Bible says it this way, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

   But the common denominator in all of the sloganeering is the importance of believing that what you want to achieve really is possib ...

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