The Book of Grit: A Confidence Guide to Help You Believe in Yourself Against All Odds (The Next Day 1)

by Shayla McMurray

This is why you need to block out the Joneses and focus on forging your own unique path. This is the only way to feel success, which, again, really just means freedom in all things.

It’s like the quote “What if it doesn’t work out? Ah, but what if it does?” Leaving that job might not work out, but if it does, I will find my joy again, and if it doesn’t, I will figure out my way. There’s power in knowing that.

Do one thing everyday toward living your truest life. And stop tolerating the fake ideology that one day it will all make sense. Honey, it will all make sense the one day you finally decide to do something about it! A fairy godmother moment is not going to happen. The only thing that will make sense is you putting your needs first and letting the universe figure out how everything else will fall into place.

In your heart, you know when something feels good or bad. Listen to that swell inside your chest. Sometimes, it takes years to hear it, twice as long to listen to it, and three times as long to act on it. That’s all right. When the student is ready, the teacher shall appear, no matter how long it takes. But when you do finally act on what feels right, you will feel whole.

Embrace the brilliant and expansive wild earth we live in. Embody the bold, authentic, and fantastic person that you are meant to become. Get out of the tame, dive into the wild, and keep moving in the direction the wind calls you, not the direction of the other cheetahs hissing at your back.

Forgiveness is looking yourself in the eye and saying I am going to accept where I am at today with total love and keep pushing closer to my dreams with total love. I am a badass today, clueless about what I am doing in two months time. I will be a badass in six months, even if I hate my job and feel trapped there. I will be a

badass years later, when I sit here now, writing this book wearing my pajamas at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday.

If all of us took care of ourselves first, it would be much easier to help each other in turn. If you want to go to the big city and figure out your life

away from everything you know, then book that ticket! Do it for yourself. You are not meant to live for someone else’s entertainment. Forgiveness is choosing yourself over others every single time.