Why we should be in constant search of doubt

Why we should be in constant search of doubt

Growth is an endlessly iterative process. When we learn something new, we don’t go from “wrong” to “right.” Rather, we go from wrong to slightly less wrong. And when we learn something additional, we go from slightly less wrong to slightly less wrong than that, and then to even less wrong than that, and so on. We are always in the process of approaching truth and perfection without actually ever reaching truth or perfection.

We shouldn’t seek to find the ultimate “right” answer for ourselves, but rather, we should seek to chip away at the ways that we’re wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow I mean Rome wasn’t built in a day right?

When viewed from this perspective, personal growth can actually be quite scientific (stay with me here it won’t sound boring I promise). Our values are our hypotheses: this behaviour is good and important, that other behavior is not. Our actions are the experiments, the resulting emotions and thought patterns are our data (thank you 4yrs of statistical analysis 😂)

There is no correct dogma or perfect ideology. There is only what your experience has shown you to be right for you and even then, that experience is probably somewhat wrong too.

And because you and I and everybody else all have differing needs and personal histories and life circumstances, we will all inevitably come to differing “correct answers about what our lives mean and how they should be lived. My correct answer involves traveling for years on end, living in obscure places, and laughing at my own farts. Or at least that was the correct answer up until recently, now I laugh at my fiancés farts too 😉

That answer will change and evolve however, because I change and evolve and as I grow older and more experienced, I chip away at how wrong I am, becoming less and less wrong every day.

Many people become so obsessed with being “right” about their life that they never end up actually living it.

A certain woman is single and lonely and wants a partner, but she never gets out of the house and does anything about it, instead she’s putting up Instagram stories with the caption “live, laugh, love” yes you know the stories I’m referring too. A certain man works his ass off and believes he deserves a promotion, but he never explicitly says that to his boss, he instead expects his boss to perform some sort of Harry Potter spell and read his damn mind.

They’re told that they’re afraid of failure, of rejection, someone saying no, but that’s not it. Sure, rejection hurts. Failure fucking sucks. But there are particular certainties that we hold on to, certainties that we’re afraid to question or let go of, values that have given our lives meaning over the years. That woman doesn’t get out there and date because she would be forced to confront her beliefs about her own desirability. That man doesn’t ask for the promotion because he would have to confront his beliefs about what his skills are actually worth.

It’s easier to sit in a painful certainty that nobody would find you attractive, that nobody appreciates your talents, than to actu ally test those beliefs and find out for sure.

Beliefs of this sort, that I’m not attractive enough, so why bother or that my boss is an asshole, so why bother are designed to give us moderate comfort now by mortgaging greater happiness and success later on.

They’re terrible long-term strategies, yet we cling to them because we assume we’re right, because we assume we already know what’s supposed to happen. In other words, we assume we know how the story ends.

Certainty is the enemy of growth. Nothing is for certain until it has already happened and even then, it’s still debatable.

That’s why accepting the inevitable imperfections of our values is necessary for any growth to take place.

Instead of striving for certainty, we should be in constant search of doubt, doubt about our own beliefs. doubt about our own feelings, doubt about what the future may hold for us unless we get out there and create it for ourselves. Instead of looking to be right all the time, we should be looking for how we’re wrong all the time. Because we are.

Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth. It means not cutting your arm open to cure a cold or splashing dog piss on your face to look young again. It means not thinking “mediocre” is a vegetable, and not being afraid to care about things.

Because here’s something that’s weird but true, we don’t actually know what a positive or negative experience is. Some of the most difficult and stressful moments of our lives also end up being the most formative and motivating.

Some of the best and most gratifying experiences of our lives are also the most distracting and demotivating. Don’t trust your conception of positive/negative experiences. All that we know for certain is what hurts in the moment and what doesn’t. And that’s not worth much.

So this weekend don’t try to be “right” embrace doubt and drink your fucking coffee.. or beer seen as it is the weekend!

See you on Monday! 🫡

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Why the sunny side of life isn’t always the best side

Why the sunny side of life isn’t always the right side:

While there is something to be said for “staying on the sunny side of life,” the truth is, sometimes life sucks, and the healthiest thing you can do is admit it.

Denying negative emotions leads to experiencing deeper and more prolonged negative emotions and to emotional dysfunction. Constant positivity is a form of avoidance, not a valid solution to life’s problems, problems which, by the way, if you’re choosing the right values (like our previous post into values last week) should be invigorating you and motivating you.

It’s simple, really, things go wrong, people upset us, accidents happen. These things make us feel like shit. And that’s fine.

Negative emotions are a necessarv component of emotional health. To deny that negativity is to perpetuate problems rather than solve them.

The trick with negative emotions is to 1) express them in a socially acceptable and healthy manner and 2) express them in a way that aligns with your values. Simple example of this:

For example, a value of mine is nonviolence (because it’s illegal right). Therefore, when I get mad at somebody, I express that anger, but I also make a point of not punching them in the face. Radical idea, I know. But the anger is not the problem. Anger is natural. Anger is a part of life. Anger is arguably quite healthy in many situations. (Remember, emotions are just feedback)

See, it’s the punching people in the face that’s the problem. Not the anger. The anger is merely the messenger for my fist in your face. Don’t blame the messenger. Blame my fist (or your face)

When we force ourselves to stay positive at all times, we deny the existence of our life’s problems. And when we deny our problems, we rob ourselves of the chance to solve them and generate happiness.

Problems add a sense of meaning and importance to our life. Thus to duck our problems is to lead a meaningless (even if supposedly pleasant) existence.

In the long run, completing a marathon makes us happier than eating a chocolate cake. Raising a child makes us happier than beating a video game. Starting a small business with friends while struggling to make ends meet makes us happier than buying a new computer. These activities are stressful. arduous. and often unpleasant.

They also require withstanding problem after problem. Yet they are some of the most meaningful moments and joyous things we’ll ever do. They involve pain, struggle. even anger and despair, yet once they’re accomplished, we look back and get all misty eyed telling our grandkids about them.

As Freud once said, “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

This is why these values pleasure, material success, always being right, staying positive are poor ideals for a person’s life.

Some of the greatest moments of one’s life are not pleasant, not successful, not known, and not positive.

The point is to nail down some good values and pleasure and success will naturally emerge as a result. These things are side effects of good values. By themselves, they are empty highs.

What do you want out of life?

What do you want out of life?

If I ask you, “What do you want out of life?” and you say something like, “I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,” yada yada yada, your response is so common and expected that it doesn’t really mean anything.

Everybody enjoys what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy, and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make a shit tonne of money and be popular and well respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when they walk into every damn room.

Everybody wants that. It’s easy to want that.

A more interesting question, a question that most people never consider, is, “What pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for?” Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out. Stick with me here I’ll explain more:

For example, most people want to get the corner office and make a boatload of money- but not many people want to suffer through sixty-hour workweeks, long commutes, obnoxious paperwork, and arbitrary corporate hierarchies to escape the confines of an infinite cubicle hell.

Like I said previously, most people want to have great sex and an awesome relationship, but not everyone is willing to go through the tough conversations, the awkward silences, the hurt feelings, and the emotional psychodrama to get there.

And so they settle. They settle and wonder, “What if?” for years and years, until the question morphs from “What if?” into “What else?” And when the lawyers go home and the alimony check is in the mail, they say, What for?” If not for their lowered standards and expectations twenty years prior, then what for?

Because happiness requires struggle. It grows from problems. Joy doesn’t just sprout out of the ground like daisies and rainbows (shock right?)

Real, serious, lifelong fulfillment and meaning have to be earned through the choosing and managing of our struggles. Whether you suffer from anxiety or loneliness or obsessive compulsive disorder or a dickhead boss who ruins half of your waking hours every day, the solution lies in the acceptance and active engagement of that negative experience not the avoidance of it, not the salvation from it.

People want an amazing physique.

But you don’t end up with one unless you legitimately appreciate the pain and physical stress and sacrifice that come with living inside a gym for hour upon hour, unless you love calculating and calibrating the food you eat planning your life out in tiny plate sized portions

Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for. People who enjoy the struggles of a gym are the ones who run triathlons and have chiseled abs and can bench press a small house. People who enjoy long workweeks and the politics of the corporate ladder (yes people like this exist) are the ones who fly to the top of it. People who enjoy the stresses and uncertainties of the starving artist lifestyle are ultimately the ones who live it and make it.

This is not about willpower or grit. This is not another admonishment of “no pain, no gain.” This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes. Our problems birth our happiness, along with slightly better, slightly upgraded problems.

See, it’s a never ending upward spiral. And if you think at any point you’re allowed to stop climbing, I’m afraid you’re missing the point. Because the joy is in the climb itself.

Happy Friday! 🤝🏻🫡🧠

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The Dark Side of Social Media

Why social media is a problem!

Yes I think we can all gather from our collective time on social media whether it be Facebook or instagram, that some days it just makes you feel like shit.

Yes I know its ironic I’ve prob posted this on instagram myself but social media has its benefits, like getting your ass over here to read this master piece 😉

Now why does it make us feel like shit I hear you ask? Well for many reasons.

But for now I want to focus on something Alan Watts referred to as the “backwards law”, which in simplistic terms focused on the idea that the more you focused or pursued greatness the less satisfied you become, as this constant pursuit of something just like that brand new BMW such and such influencer on Instagram received this week for no particular reason other than they have a million followers, subconsciously reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place, because if you’re being honest with yourself, you most likely wouldn’t have thought about any BMW before seeing that post, you would’ve went on about your day drinking your latte all happy in your bubble.

Furthermore, the more you desperately want to be rich, the more poor and unworthy you feel, regardless of how much money you actually make. The more you desperately want to be sexy and desired, the uglier you come to see yourself, regardless of your actual physical appearance. The more you desperately want to be happy and loved, the lonelier and more afraid you become, regardless of those who surround you. The more you want to be spiritually enlightened, the more self centred and shallow you become in trying to get there.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Do you see where this is going? 💭

Back in your grandads day, he would feel like shit and think to himself, “Jesus, I sure do feel like shit today. But hey, I guess that’s just life. Anyway, back to shovelling hay and laying bricks”

But now? Now if you feel like shit for even five minutes, you’re bombarded with hundreds if not thousands of images of people totally happy and having amazing fucking lives, and it’s impossible to not feel like there’s something wrong with you and alas you start chasing happiness once again.

It’s this last part that gets us into trouble tho. We feel bad about feeling bad. We feel guilty for feeling guilty. We get angry about getting angry. We get anxious about feeling anxious. “What is wrong with me?” You might even say.

We joke online about “first-world problems,” but we really have become victims of our own success and innovation. Stress-related health issues, anxiety disorders, and cases of depression have skyrocketed over the past thirty years, despite the fact that everyone has a flat-screen TV and can have their groceries delivered right to your door.

Having the Internet, Google, Facebook, YouTube, and access to five hundred plus channels of television is amazing.

But our attention is limited. There’s no way we can process the tidal waves of information flowing past us constantly. Therefore. the onlv zeroes and ones that break through and catch our attention are the truly exceptional pieces of information those in the 99.999th percentile.

All day, every day, we are flooded with the truly extraordinary. The best of the best. The worst of the worst. The greatest physical feats. The funniest jokes. The most upsetting news. The scariest threats. Nonstop.

Our lives today are filled with information from the extremes of the bell curve of human experience, because in the media business that’s what gets eyeballs, and eyeballs bring euros. That’s the bottom line. Yet the vast majority of life resides in the humdrum middle. The vast majority of life unextraordinary, indeed quite average.

This flood of extreme information has conditioned us to believe that exceptionalism is the new normal. And because we’re all quite average most of the time, the deluge of exceptional information drives us to feel pretty damn insecure and desperate, because clearly we are somehow not good enough.

Our crisis is no longer material; it’s existential, it’s spiritual. We have so much fucking stuff and so many opportunities that we don’t even know what to give a fuck about anymore.

Because there’s an infinite amount of things we can now see or know, there are also an infinite number of ways we can discover that we don’t measure up, that we’re not good enough, that things aren’t as great as they could be. And this rips us apart inside.

So if you’re going to do anything this week let it be this. Turn it the fuck off. All of it. YouTube, Instagram, the entire lot. Go outside reconnect with nature, meet actual people in a cafe or for a walk, smile, embrace life outside of the digital prison we sometimes find ourselves in.

If you can do this, I promise you, you will be a much happier and fulfilled individual, who will be rejuvenated to tackle anything in your life both professionally and personally.

Happy Monday!

Oh I nearly forgot, CRUSH THIS WEEK! And drink your coffee 🧠🫡

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Adversity

It’s Friday! Which means I’m here to pass on some knowledge to not only kick start your weekend but to hopefully kickstart a better you, strap in folks because this one is bound to ruffle a few feathers 🧠

This Fridays blog is all about “practical enlightenment” and why adversity is so important

No, not that airy fairy, eternal bliss, end of all suffering, bullshitty kind of enlightenment that you may read on the back of a postcard or in a fortune cookie.

On the contrary, I see practical enlightenment as becoming comfortable with the idea that some suffering is always inevitable-that no matter what you do, life is comprised of failures, loss, regrets, and even the occasional death.

Now, I can hear you say “Jesus Christ Lee, sounds a bit blunt” but hear me out because once you become comfortable with all the shit that life throws at you (and it will throw a lot of shit, trust me), you become invincible in a sort of low level spiritual way.

After all, the only way to overcome pain is to first learn how to bear it.

Something you learn in the military quite quickly.

Adversity in its many many forms is also important for finding what you’re truly capable of.

Every scenario life throws at you peels a layer of yourself free that you never new existed. Whether it be dealing with the sudden illness of a loved one, to training for a marathon. Only when you ask your body and mind to do something it’s never done before, will you truly understand just how strong you are both physically and mentally.

Yes you may cry, you may fall down, you may even feel like it will never get better, but I’m here to tell you it does, so shed your tears, pick yourself up and tell yourself it will get better because YOU SAY SO!

So remember, You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

Oh and drink your coffee! 😏

Have a wonderful Friday and an even better weekend, see you on Monday 🫡🧠

Lessons the majority of us take their whole lives to figure out

It’s Monday! Another week above ground and another chance to absolutely crush your goals both personally and professionally!

This weeks Monday blog:

“Lessons the majority of us take their whole lives to figure out”

1. Most of it doesn’t matter. Most of what you worry about, you won’t even remember in a few weeks, much less a few years.

2. People come before money, status or material things. When you’re on your death bed, you won’t be thinking about that sweet ass audi you bought or your promotion, you’ll be thinking only about the people around you. The people that care.

3. Sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself and others is to give up and let it be. Remember our previous post saying the longer you hold on to things the heavier they become? This is why letting things be is important

4. Just because you feel something, doesn’t mean you have to act on it. Just because you believe something, doesn’t mean it’s true. Just because you like somebody, doesn’t mean they don’t have flaws.

5. You need far less than you thought to be happy. In fact, you need very little. Except coffee.. everyone needs coffee.

With these few lessons, try and apply them throughout this week. Make it your goal to consciously make the effort to strive for a better life.

Happy Monday! 🧠

3 Rules For Life

Hi guys! The weekend is upon us, but before we all get ready to finally relax, I want to drop some knowledge your way about growth and life in general! Sit back, buckle up and enjoy the read! 📚📖

RULE 1: You are responsible for everything in your own experience.

Even if it’s not your fault.

This concept of radical responsibility comes from existentialism.

Jean-Paul Sartre specifically, who had this amazing insight that in every moment, we are choosing. We are constantly making choices of not only what to do, but how to see things.

So if someone says something to piss you off, well, you chose to be pissed off. You chose to have values that made that thing piss you off. You chose to listen to the guy who pissed you off.

Now, this constant choosing is a massive load on us mentally and emotionally, and it’s because we are terrified of shouldering this exhausting sense of responsibility that it’s also human nature to blame other people, to share the load and pass it off.

The problem is that the first step of personal development is personal responsibility. You can’t improve anything, including yourself, if you don’t think you are responsible for it. So get good at it.

RULE 2: There is no such thing as a bad emotion. There are only bad reactions to emotions.

There’s no such thing as a bad note, only bad musicians.

There is no such thing as a bad emotion, only bad people.

Everybody gets angry, sad, depressed, anxious or whatever. That’s okay, that’s normal. But what determines if the emotion is good or bad or not, is determined by the person who handles the emotion. You can either choose to handle the stirring emotion in an emotionally intelligent way (which we will get into a bit deeper in future posts), or you can choose to handle it like an emotional dumpster fire.

If you think of emotional management as a skill, which it is, you will realise that the same way some people are naturally great at running and some people naturally totally suck, some people are naturally good at dealing with emotions, and others have to learn. Which are you? Are you emotionally intelligent or a dumpster fire? Be honest with yourself when answering.

RULE 3: Every action and decision you make should be motivated to improve lives.

Both yours and/or others.

Now, obviously this is a very difficult rule to uphold, not only because the idea of sitting at home on the couch drinking beer all day is much more attractive, but because it is really hard to know what improvement is exactly. What makes a life better? And for who? Are you pampering your child or are you giving them opportunity? Are you loving someone or are you smothering the fuck out of them? But a simple smile goes a long way.

This confusion is why this rule needs to be about intention. It’s about radical growth. So when you apply this rule to your life you should seek growth through improvement, health, and functionality. The intention needs to be that everything you do in life is for the benefit of some living being, either you or someone or something else. Then watch yourself grow.

Have a wonderful weekend!

See you on Monday 🧠🤝🏻

Taking Responsibility

I’m sometimes asked, “How can I reach my full potential?” I always reply with the same answer,
“take responsibility”


How can I take responsibility? What has responsibility got to do with reaching my full potential.


Its quite simple but yet so difficult for people to apply to their own lives.


You have control over three things – what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognise that these three things are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life


So lets briefly breakdown the importance of what you think.


Our thoughts are paramount to how we tackle this rollercoaster we call life and all our tools which we have control over come from our thoughts. We really are the product of our thoughts, from enjoying a cup of coffee in the morning, to feeling that dread of an impending Monday on a Sunday night. Everything we feel from the good to the bad comes from our thought process. We are responsible for both the good and the bad feelings in which accompany life.


For example, Mondays aren’t bad you know. Its simply another day in a week, a month and a year.
The bad feelings which are in your thoughts comes from you. Your attitude towards Mondays are the problem. Not the day. So if you can train yourself to see Monday as a new beginning, a new chance to create a week in which you come out on top, that’s when Mondays don’t seem bad anymore, you rewire your thoughts to accept that Monday is just a day like the 6 other days in the week. It was you that turned it negative.


As tough as Mondays are, the only one who can make it a good one is YOU. The only one who is stopping you from having one of the best days of your life is, yeah you guessed it… YOU!
You are limited by your outlook on life. Drink your coffee, smile even when you want to scream and when you can efficiently do this, YOU are in control.


Moving on to our control over what we say. No matter what people say, words have power to not only you but to others also. But today were going to focus on the power in which they give YOU.
Our words have so much power and we don’t even realise it. Your words have the ability to transform your life, I know, I know it sounds so wishy washy….. but when you are up against it, maybe you’re working out and you want to squeeze out that last rep, you see people in the gym shouting “Lets do this!!” There’s a reason for that… the reason being, their spoken words give off the energy they need to mentally prepare for that last rep or last set which they need to do. How many times have you done something tough and you whispered quietly “I got this” whether it be before an interview or for work, we all do it. So make sure the words you use this week are the right ones, the ones YOU deserve to hear.


From our thoughts, to the words we speak, the last thing we truly have control over is our behaviour. The way in which our behaviour is important is because it is the love child of both our thoughts and our words. For example, lets say something bad happens you, maybe a loved one has recently passed, maybe you get let go from work, maybe your cat shit on the carpet, whatever it is big or small, it passes through our thoughts, onto our spoken word which in turn influences how we behave. The saying “actions speak louder than words” have a weight behind it for this exact reason. If shit hits the fan and you allow your thoughts to jump to the negative your behaviour will inevitably turn negative too. Maybe you’ll drink more, maybe you’ll stop going to the gym, maybe you’ll stop giving a shit about the things you really should give a shit about, YOU’LL SELF DESTRUCT. This is why behaviour along with our thoughts and our spoken word is vitally important. If you can channel a bad situation into a good one within your thoughts, your behaviour will be positive. You’ll turn the bad into the good, you’ll use it for the fuel to light the fire within you, you’ll say to yourself “Watch, I this isn’t going to defeat me, not this time” and just like that, you can take on whatever life has to throw at you.

I know this sounds ridiculously simple, and if it was there would be no need for the likes of me to write about it, we would all live in a big world of sunshine and rainbows, which we all know at least hope we all know, we don’t. So this takes work. Daily work. Just like the gym or a diet, it takes commitment to train yourself to be the best version of you daily.


BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY LIES WITH YOU!


Don’t play the victim anymore. Get out there and start getting the life you deserve.


And finally remember this:
It takes as much effort to have a bad day than it does to have a good one!

Starting something new

Starting something new, whether it be something as simple as a hobby like knitting or collecting Pokemon cards or something more serious like the launch of a new business idea or even a website (wink wink, nudge nudge), it can be truly terrifying.
I have started many things in my life. Some of which were successful, some scared the shit out of me but ALL of the mentioned thought me life lessons I still use today. For example

  • I started martial arts at the young age of 5.. yes 5, because who doesn’t want to be a Ninja when you’re young right? This journey led me to become a third degree black belt, multiple All Ireland champion, selected to represent Ireland at numerous international competitions and placing in the top 10 competitors in the world. It also thought me at a very young age about sacrifice, discipline, winning and more importantly thought me about failure.
  • Moving forward a couple of years, a new journey in which I started was my time in the military. I always wanted to join the military at some point in my life due to having the majority of my immediate family including my own father serving. At this point in my life I was lost, didn’t know what I wanted to do, finished school, did a few not so meaningful courses to tie me over. Then one faithful march evening, I seen that the Defence Forces were recruiting and so began the long journey of being selected to start recruit training. Recruit training aims to turn civilians into fully functioning soldiers. Many times throughout this process you ask yourself “why… why the hell did I volunteer for this?” My time in the military much like my time in martial arts thought me once again about success, self motivation, discipline and never giving up, even when it all seems lost.
  • Another journey in which I think is important to share is the journey of living my life after losing a loved one. Throughout my life I have lost many people I hold dear to me, but the journey of starting over after losing my own father is properly the hardest journey I have taken to date.
    Starting a fresh journey without a pivotal life figure not around seems almost impossible and for a long time I was sure it was just that… impossible. Alas, as time went on, as life continued without me, I had a choice. My choices were either continue this journey of self destruction or use what I’ve learned already in my life about resilience, motivation and psychology to not only get myself back on track but to also understand why I felt what I felt, understand the emotions to better identify them in the future, because unfortunately, the journey of loss is one we must all face…..alone.
  • The final “something new” which id like to discuss is my time in education. When my time in the military had naturally ran its course, I began to ask myself “is this what you want to do forever?” I found myself losing the flame inside me. So I began to toy with the idea of returning to education. I never went to college and always wondered would I be able for it? would I enjoy it?. III be straight with you, I hated school, so the idea of leaving a good stable job in pursuit of a “Maybe” terrified me. I knew if I was thinking of this, that it was worth looking at. After much deliberation and research I decided “Fuck it” and placed all my eggs into one basket, left my full time government job and went back to education. Skip forward 4.5 years later im writing this after not only successfully completing an Honours Degree in Psychology but also obtaining a Masters in Organisational Psychology and Human Behaviour.
    I think the point of this post is to show you that life is full of “Starting something new”. Should it terrify you? Fuck yes! Is it normal? Of course it is your human, new things are meant to scare you so relax, take a breath and remember…. WHATS THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN!
    If you succeed, Great!
    If you fail, Great!
    Life is full of success stories and failure stories and sometimes its the failures in which we learn most from.
    Take the chance, I believe in you. Believe in YOURSELF!