To succeed, you must fail

what do you do when life knocks you down when everything you've worked for seems to crumble and you're left staring at the pieces the difference between those who rise and those who stay defeated isn't Talent OR luck it's the will to get back up over and over again no matter how hard the fall imagine this you've been working towards a goal pouring your heart and soul into it but just when you think you're close to achieving it something unexpected happens you're hit hard hard knocked down by life in a way you never saw coming it's

painful and the disappointment feels almost unbearable you look around and it feels like the world is moving on without you like you're stuck in a moment of defeat while everything else keeps spinning this is where most people give up they let the fear of another failure keep them down they start to believe that maybe just maybe they weren't meant to succeed in the first place but here's the thing falling down isn't the end of your story in fact it's just the beginning of a new chapter when you're lying there on the ground feeling the sting

of failure you have a choice to make you can either stay there lamenting over what could have been or you can summon the courage to get back up and try again it's not easy nobody said it would be but the strength to rise comes from the very depths of those difficult moments it's forged in the fires of your hardest battles in the time times when you feel like you have nothing left to give the world isn't going to stop because you've Fallen circumstances won't magically change just because you're struggling but you can change you can

choose to fight back life doesn't reward those who stay down it rewards those who rise even when it seems impossible think about the greatest challenges you faced were they the moments when everything was easy no they were the times when you were pushed to your limit when you were forced to confront your fears and doubts and yet those are the moments that shaped you that made you who you are today not the victories not the Applause but the silent struggles the defeats that you turned into fuel for your next attempt true Champions aren't made in

moments of Glory they're made in those quiet lonely hours when nobody is watching when there's no crowd to cheer you on they're made when you decide to push yourself to go beyond what you thought was possible even when you're exhausted even when every fiber of your being is telling you to quit so what's your reason what's that burning motivation inside you that will keep you going when you feel like you've hit rock bottom because you will hit rock bottom we all do but what will Define you is how you rise from it your reason will

be the spark that ignites your spirit that pushes you to keep going when everything else tells you to stop and remember this failure doesn't Define you it's not the end it's just a stepping stone on the path to success what really matters is what you do after you fail do you let it break you or do you use it as a lesson as a push to try again every time you get up you're stronger than before every time you try again you one step closer to where you want to be so when you find yourself

down feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders ask yourself are you going to stay there or are you going to rise because success isn't about Never Falling it's about how many times you're willing to get back up the battle isn't over in fact it's just begun so stand up dust yourself off and face life with more determination than ever before the only true defeat is when you decide not to try again as long as you keep fighting you're still in the game the choice is yours what will you do [Applause]