Victory Favors the Fearless: How to Defeat the 7 Fears That Hold You Back (Sports for the Soul Book 5)

We all tend to live in our own heads. We can waste so much time fixating on negative things—regrets about past mistakes or worries about future failures. What a waste of time those negative thoughts are.

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When pictures of me getting knocked out floated into my mind, I’d feel my stomach churn. But instead of stewing on this negative fantasy, I’d replace it with thoughts of me ducking a big punch and countering with a knockout blow of my own.

“If you choose to believe that an obstacle is actually an opportunity for something better, an amazing thing happens. You start seeing obstacles differently. Whenever you experience a setback, you immediately start searching for the opportunity that will come from it. You create new opportunities by choosing to believe that every obstacle is an opp

“Mickey, you get to choose which voice you want to empower. The decision is yours. You need to tell yourself, again and again, ‘I have the power to create my destiny. The past is the past and failure is never permanent. My future starts today

“There’s really no such thing as being too confident. Too arrogant, yes. But not too confident. There’s a difference.

“How you see yourself determines how you think, act, and live your life. Your self-image is one the most important factors in determining your quality of life.

If you lower your aim because of self-doubt, you’ll spend your whole life underachieving. You’ll never know what you could have achieved if you had only dared to believe you were capable.”

A man who fails to reach his potential will never experience the destiny he was made for. You—and only you—get to determine if you will reach your full potential.