Chronicle Books - Go Forth!

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Design and front cover art by Rachel Harrell Back cover art, clockwise:
Yee Haw: Allison Black
Walk & Think: nastia sleptsova
Stay Humble Hustle Hard: Jennet Liaw
Start Today: Stephanie Certa
You Are Awesome: Monica Ramos Chronicle Books LLC
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San Francisco, California 94107 www.chroniclebooks.com

Youre a champion. But everyone gets scared sometimes. The people who seem bravest are often the most scared of all. They just dont let it stop them. When faced with the choice between doing the important or exciting or adventuresome thing, that also just so happens to be the hard or frightening or daunting thing, or not doing that important/hard, exciting/frightening, adventuresome/daunting thing, these people bear in mind that old adage about the real nature of couragethat courage is not never feeling fear, its feeling the fear and doing it anyway. And heres the thing.

You are already one of those people. They are not some special breed of mountain-climbers and speech-givers and globe-trotters. No. They are all of us. They are you. We have all had the experience of standing on the brink of something new and doubting whether or not we could tackle it, and then moving forward and tackling the heck out of it.

Did we sometimes fail? Yep. Did that matter? Not in the least. The artists who made the work in this bookall of it encompassing messages of hope and courage and positivityknow that life is not a tally sheet chalking up successes against failures and looking for a win. No. Life, each of these artists reminds us in their own way, is about what you endeavored, what you essayed, what you dared, and what you tried. Win or lose makes no differencewhats important is that you played.

Maybe that means loving, maybe that means going, maybe that just means doing the dishes. Whatever going forth means to you, get ready to be given the most daring gift of all: the gift of permission. Permission to move forward, permission to take delight, permission to be afraid, permission to fail. You already hold the potential inside of you; the art in this book is just telling you to let it out. Whatever little nudge you need to tip over that brink and into your next great adventure, here it is.

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