My dog has lived for six years but I have only known her for three.

Every weekday morning, I walk her and as we stroll through the trees, she stalks the squirrels. Yesterday, it made me think. She has never caught a squirrel, but every time we see one, she watches it, stalks it and sometimes chases after it as it darts to a tree and climbs up its trunk. Sometimes she stands at the end of the tree and looks up and I think that if she wasn’t on a lead, she’d try to climb that tree.

It made me think of how, even though she has never succeeded in catching a squirrel, she never stops trying. She believes she can catch one and so every day she tries. Imagine what you could do if you believed in yourself the way my dog does?

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