WIN Big! 3 Lessons from a Little Horse š

Evan Carmichael argues that everyone has one defining word that captures their identity and should guide decisions. A small horse that believes it's the biggest shows how confidence and heart, even when you're perceived as little, can lead to outsized achievements.
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What I believe is that everybody has one word that defines them. It's who you have always been and who you always will be. Your one word can help you with all the major important decisions that you have to make in your life and in your business. And when you understand what you're all about and who you truly are, it allows you to then design a life and design a business that supports you becoming the best version of yourself.
Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period.
Before you can play on this team, you owe me 2,500 push-ups. And 1,000 suicides.
And they must be completed by Friday.
What is your deepest fear, Mr. Cruz? God. That you're inadequate? Give up, Mr. Cruz. Go home.
I love to laugh. Loud and long and clear. I love to laugh. It's getting worse every year.
So the guidebook says that the route's through here. But I know a better way. The cool way.
All right. Now all you gotta remember is that everything will be okay. Ah! Oh my God! Oh my God!
I just think this horse has a lot of heart. He may have been down, but he wasn't out. He may have lost a few, but he didn't let it get to him. I think we could all learn a lick or two from this little guy. Oh, and by the way, he doesn't know he's little. He thinks he's the biggest horse out there. See, sometimes when the little guy, he doesn't know he's a little guy, he can do great big things.
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