"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." Golda Meir A friend recently wrote to wish me Happy Birthday. In her email, she reminded me of some words of comfort I gave her during one of her darkest days, when she didn’t think she’d ever recover from her divorce. The words: “…at the heart of the issue is you don’t trust yourself that you will be ok. But I do. You’re an awesome person.” While my friend ultimately made it through her darkest days, and is now thriving, her words reminded me why trusting yourself is the ultimate gamble in life that will yield the greatest reward. It is the one thing that you completely own, that is all yours, and when exercised authentically, allows you to live a truly full life. Self-trust requires you to have enough confidence to rely on your own ability and character to know ...