Excerpt from the book:
"This is right around the time when I started to descend into the narrowest part of that funnel I asked you to picture earlier. This narrow place is where emotions like fear, doubt, and confusion try to overtake you. This is where your biggest champions start turning into your biggest critics because your unconventional path is now bearing fruit and they can’t figure out how. Even though your critics may overwhelm you, remember that they’re not really interested in “Why you?” but most likely, they are trying to figure out “Why not them?” Remember that this is your path, not theirs. Though it doesn’t sound pretty, this is exactly where you want to be.
And it was in this narrow place where I first put on my new lenses and saw my journey as far from typical. I had to face make some tough decisions. That’s what the narrow space feels like, but it was in there that I truly embraced the anomaly that most of us children of God are. The world just can’t understand why we dare to dream so big and have so much faith that even the biggest mountain can be moved out of our way or be forced to crumble. So favored and spirit-led are our decisions, pursuits, and actions, the wise are often confound.
The road to great is not a journey of logic, but it’s one that's taken intuitively. A road that you travel equipped with the belief that you were formed, fitted, and favored for that particular path. That’s the belief we have to start with, and it’s upon that belief that we turn our vice into the catalysts for our victories. I was the underdog. You may be the underdog too, but everybody loves a good underdog story…”
