Are you watching or playing the game?

"You know we can't get out of life alive!" motivational speaker Les Brown has been quoted as saying. "We can either die in the bleachers or die on the field. We might as well come down on the field and go for it!" Whenever you follow a dream, you're no longer sitting on the sidelines, watching life pass you by. You're on the field with the balls whizzing by, winning and losing and going back for another inning. So keep that in mind and cheer yourself on. Hold yourself in the kind of esteem you would afford to any player who stays in the game and plays with all his or her heart and soul! And if you're holding back, ask yourself what have you really got to lose and then go for it anyway!