Good morning, wonderfuls! Are you ready for some sizzling hot knowledge served on a plate of boiling hot iron?♨️♨️♨️ In order to better digest this meal, I strongly suggest participating in the previous lesson that came before this one. You'll thank me for it later. Now, are you ready? 

Most of my life, I have been terrified. My friends have told me, its like I'm an ox; "how do you always keep on going?" My friends come to me for a shoulder to lean on, as if I'm some kind of strong person. The truth is, most of my life, my knees have been shaking and my voice has been trembling.

None of us come into this world knowing what's going to happen to us, we don't get a pamphlet, we don't have instructions. But the best skill that any of us can ever develop is the skill of reinvention.

Resetting, rebuilding, reinventing, restarting. We can't just hold onto the tools we were born with; we have to in fact take the tools provided to us by life's experiences and reinvent ourselves as we go along.

Yes, it takes courage to believe in oneself. But what else are you going to do? Believe in ourselves we must. Because this life is a gift and there's a whole lot of living that needs to be had! Are you going to live or are you just going to stand there?

It's also really about the readiness and humbleness to accept the feeling of shame, and realise that, just like any other emotion, shame is temporary. Shame is not the end.

But if you cannot move through shame because of pride? That's the end. Your life really stops there. On the other side of shame, your life jumps up and down, calling out your name! Your life starts on the other side of shame.

Failure does not actually exist, it is not a real thing. Failure is a metric of concept implemented into our brains so we are driven to fuel a system that is set in place. You may always change course, you may always reinvent the narrative, you may always replace the rules. You may always get up again after a fall. It's not failure; it's physics!

If you get divorced that means you now have an opportunity to take what you've learned and turn into a new direction. If you get fired that means you now have an opportunity to hit restart someplace new. Shame will reward you for learning how to walk alongside her.

When you think about it, shame is a lonely girl; nobody wants to be seen with her. But she's actually crazy rich and if you learn how to sit at the lunch table with her, she'll give you all the treasures you need to make it on your new journey.

In my life I have kept on going with a trembling voice and weak knees. They call me an ox, they think I'm strong; but really, I am simply the friend of shame and she smiles upon me ever so graciously.