By Katie Tallo

“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.” Napoleon Bonaparte

I’ve decided something. I am no longer going to worry about changing. There’s been this small, petty, fearful voice in my head this past year that’s been needling away at me, belittling my efforts and reminding me over and over that I will never change. It’s a voice fueled by my deepest fears and doubts about myself and my long-held-on-to insecurities and shames.

But there comes a time when fear, nastiness and worry must be told to go and sit in the corner and be quiet. There comes a time when something else must rise up and stand in their place so that healthy, heartfelt, lovely change can come about. That something else goes by the name of grit.

Grit is an indomitable spirit.

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