Originally written in 2011, edited with extra comments in 2023

If you think you are beaten, you are;

If you think you dare not, you don’t;

If you like to win, but you think you can’t

It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose you’ve lost,

For out of the world we find

Success begins with a fellow’s will¬

It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are—

You’ve got to think high to rise.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before

You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go

To the stronger or faster man;

But soon or late the man who wins

Is the man who thinks he can.

–Walter D. Wintle

After you have aimed big and visualized what success will look like for you, you got to believe in your capabilities to materialize it. If you can’t believe in yourself, how can you expect the world to believe in you? You have tremendous power inside. If you know the way, you can produce miracles out of your system. You have got wonders inherent inside you. You just do not know this fact and do not know how to unearth them. So first you got to believe in your abilities. You got to convince yourself that you can do it. You can make it. You can win. You can be successful because you deserve it. And you deserve it not because you should be bestowed with success based on any sociodemographic privileges you assume you are entitled to, but because nothing can break you down and you have the confidence to rise and fight after every time you have fallen without losing enthusiasm.