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After approximately one year analyzing charts and figures, and not winning a single important event, I was tempted to close shop and move on to calmer shores. It can be a little daunting to study the compatible bloodlines as they relate to pedigree design, and the past performances of every horse in your stables and identify what each one is trying to communicate related to class and distance. Heck, I even went on the fraternity forum and blamed world finances, the game structure, the powers that be and those imagined, and even Dracula and Mickey Mouse for all my private and public woes. <\/span><\/p>\n But then something moved within.<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps memories of facing difficulty and emerging stronger, made themselves present and I decided to write myself a memo and share it with this community, in the hopes that it can influence other newbie players as a motivational tool as we move on to a new year of hope. I have also decided to edit it and leave out all the vulgarity……<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dear Coward,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Where are you going?<\/span><\/strong> They almost had to bring in the troops to contain you, and yet you marveled at how you felt nothing when the needle went in and even asked the struggling nurse: “Is that all”?<\/span><\/strong> Would you rather sprint to success, knowing full well that the shortening of the journey leaves you with little staying power, or would you rather take the muddy route and learn of the joy of perseverance, that which is largely a matter of hanging on while others have decided to let go?<\/span><\/strong> You decide to see your struggle while ignoring that there is no game without it, or true champion without defeat.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Mosquitos have never considered themselves too small to be effective. Remind yourself of this and continuously repeat small steps day in and day out, for these are crucial on your path to success.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n All things are difficult before they become easy, so don’t fret.<\/span><\/strong> All our horses prove is that success doesn’t ever come unless you go to it. The time for that is now as we move on to a new year of dreams that can only be reached by crossing the bridge of courage.<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After approximately one year analyzing charts and figures, and not winning a single important event, I was tempted to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27280"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27300,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280\/revisions\/27300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n This habit of yours, where you run from hardship and pain, how can it serve you in the building of character and strength?<\/span><\/strong>
\n You may recall that day when you were four and screamed and yelled and even kicked at the prospects of getting your polio shot.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n Oh you silly goof, it has happened forever in your life, and still you refuse to learn how hope disguises itself as fear and excitement as anxiety.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n I have not seen anyone reach the moon with their feet stuck in the ground.<\/span><\/strong>
\n Do you focus more on every stride of the path before you, or concentrate on where you’re going?<\/span><\/strong>
\n Perhaps if you complained less and smiled more, things would begin to build a happy momentum. After all, as you waste your breath protesting about things you can’t control, someone out there is taking their last…so appreciate what you have.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n Instead, keep yourself looking up and using the sky as the bread of the imagination, as Emerson said, because the isness of what is, can only be changed by the constant positive focus of what isn’t, and this is how all things seen have come to be.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n And stop blaming them for not always winning. They are doing their best given their abilities. The question is: how about you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n