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  Do you let internal small childish fears about rejection direct your life or you listen to the voice inside of you that tells you to try.     To give.     To keep building and making something new.   Most people will cheer you on.     Most people will want you to succeed.     Anyone who does not want you to succeed does not belong in your life.   Everyone is an expert at failure.     Everyone can point out how "this won't work," or "that won't work" or my personal favorite, "you suck."   And they are right.     For them, these haters, these non-friends, these ID 10 T's are absolutely correct.   To them you do suck.   And why would you want to have that in your life?   Cut them out.   Find the people who will support you.   I found it in running.   I tried 4 100 mile races in12 months and my running friends didn't care that I was only able to finish 2.   They said things like, "You still ran 50 (or 60 M

  It’s too much, she said.   Normally I hear that after a date.   In bed.   Just kidding.   I’m more used to, is that it?   And the slap that follows the answer.   Which is he or she who finishes first is the winner!   I didn’t make the rules of racing.   I just live them.   But she was not talking about racing.   Or dating.   She was referring to the vast number of promotional giveaways I send out.   It’s a lot, she said.   And even if I refrained from the familiar dive into the gutter, at least you know I’m thinking it.   Yes, it is a lot.   I’m a giver.   Plus, you never know what you’re going to find.   Sometimes, you have to sift through a lot of chatter to find that golden nugget that lets you know you’ve struck the motherlode.   By that I mean eighteen books of awesome.   Like Kyla Stone.   I ate up her 7 book series on EMP.   Gave up book 3 on the nuclear one.   It just felt… familiar.