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"Once you become fearless, life becomes limitless" in the words of Dan Pena. By the way, Dan Pena is someone i'll ask you to listen to regularly.

Can you for a moment, as you plan towards the new year, take a brief look again at the outgoing year, at the mountains that stood in your face, the challenges you couldn't surmount that made life a little less interesting for you? Could you have taken little steps inspite of them? Could you have been more daring in the face of those challenges? Could you possibly have pretended that they did not exist and moved a little forward by taking little steps?

There are no easy ways to make hard decisions. You cannot drive forward with your brakes on; you must be ready to go through life and break through it like you really want to test yourself. The challenges hope you don't move, are you going to confirm their hopes? If you do not dare, you do not breakthrough. Be ready to fail; it's ok to fail!

If there's anything you must add to whatever you are planning to have in the year ahead, it's guts. Dare to dare. Dare to try. Dare to write that book; dare to write that proposal; dare to see that person; dare to go to that place; dare to record your own song; dare to start that school; dare to host that event; dare to make that move; dare to do that thing you have only dreamt and thought about. Only the daring have the possibility of seeing what is on the other side. Dare to succeed. Remember: Once you become fearless, life becomes limitless.

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