Always put out your best effort, even when you want to be lazy. The reason for this advice is because even if we fail at something, we know we did our best. And when we fail, we need to remember Edison - it took over 2,000 attempts to make a lightbulb. In fact, it took 2,774. I figure if he can continue and work hard at making a light bulb, I can continue working with that type of grit. Failure brings us closer to success and often teaches us more than being immediately successful.

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In baseball, you come up to bat. Success means you hit it out of the park. You're excited, you get praised, but then comes the tricky ball - you fail and feel bad. But guess what? The tricky ball is the one you have to work on. The ones you can hit out easily are not as big of a challenge as the tricky ones.

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You learn to hit the tricky ones, then the ones you hit out of the park become even easier. But that doesn't mean you will always hit it out of the park. A free throw shooter who is amazing and holds records is Stephen Curry, and he is noted to hit at 91.1% - an amazing achievement that proves he works on his craft and practices. Now how much work do you think went into that?

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Now kids, I go back to baseball. I have a feeling you have all heard about Babe Ruth, but maybe you haven't. But guess what - his percentage is not as high as Stephen Curry's. Baseball can be trickier at the plate. I'm not saying that a free throw is easy, because it's not, but baseball is trickier, and the numbers do not lie. Babe Ruth had an amazing 34.2% career average. He might have done better at times if his personal life hadn't gotten in his way.

But that's the thing - sometimes what is going on with us can mess with our game. And that means when our personal lives are messing with our game, with our crafts, we need help. He needed help, but that did not mean he wasn't an amazing man.