Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own identity in Christ. You have in you the gene and capability to excel. Don't use failure to convince yourself that you can never succeed. Your situations and failures do not define you, you define what is the failure and you control how you act in your situations. When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master. You have to free your mind from the thought that you are not good enough, you have to free your mind from the slavery of doubt. Doubt and fear kill more dreams than failure ever will. People are slaves to things they do not like just because they think they can't make it without the presence of those things. If no one has ever made it big in your family, it does not mean it is written on the wall that you will not make it.

Christ is the firm foundation. Build your life in Him and you will never be shaken. When our lives are rooted in God, then no matter what storms blow our way, we will remain standing. Never compromise for anything or anyone in this world, it is never worth it. Let God be first

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
- Matthew 7:24-27