Personal failure story becomes motivationfrom @brian_pruett

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I remember when I was in college playing baseball for Coastal Carolina, my parents drove up my sophomore year, thirteen hours from Florida to Myrtle Beach to watch me sit tier bench. And I was absolutely devastated, so depressed, so discouraged. I felt like a failure. My parents were driving up to see their boy play baseball. All my friends from back home were like, yes, Brian's playing d one baseball. He must be crushing it. When the reality was I was at my lowest point in my life. Relationship, breakup, my performance, my career was tanking. All the eggs that I put into the basket of my identity as being a baseball player and important and an athlete on a pedestal best like it was so heavy on my shoulders. And so I'm not sure what it is for you. I'm not sure how you're letting what you do or what you don't do or your performance or the lack of performance define you. But I'm here to remind you and myself that no matter what, we cannot be defined by our mistakes, our failures, the worst parts about our lives. We are defined by something so much greater. We're made by love. We're made on purpose. We have so much more to look forward to. So if you feel like you're a failure right now, you feel like you're underperforming, underachieving, I'm here to tell you, keep going. Keep believing. There are a 100% better days ahead for you and for me if we keep showing up. We keep believing.