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I Believe in You! (Pep Talk)

I'm going to tell you something right now and I want you to listen closely.
It doesn't matter if you are at the top of your game or struggling through life hour by hour, minute by minute, you are so much more than you can ever begin to fathom!

I'm going to share something with you and I want you to take it to heart.
I don't care if you have a network of billions of people or if you have one friend, you are more important to the people around you than you could ever know!

I'm going to lay it all out here for you and I don't want you to shrug this off because I don't personally know you.
Regardless if you're the Valedictorian of your class at Harvard or flipping burgers at the local diner, you have so much to offer this world.

You may be my best friend or you may be someone I've never met. Either way, I want you to know that I believe you in you. I believe in your dreams and ambitions; I believe that you have the strength to dig deep and plow through any trial that you encounter. Just always know that I believe.

But it doesn't matter what I believe, what matters is that you begin to believe. The choice is yours as it always has been. Whatever you are going through right now, where ever you are in your life at this point, how ever you are feeling, you need to know that you can do this!

So keep your head up, set your gaze upon the goal ahead, and LIVE it up!

-ZZ

"It isn't where you are from; it's where you're going that counts" -Ella Fitzgerald- 



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