Inspiring You: What's holding you back?

I could give you a laundry list of things holding me back. I've had an abundance of roadblocks lately - all self imposed - as well as encouragement. How do we press forward?

Instead of rambling about myself, I thought I'd share a link from Seekerville as posted by Author Vickie McDonough.

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