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I have one responsibility. My responsibility is to serve Hashem. That's it. My responsibility is to do my job. He said study, I'm studying. He said give, I give. He said do something, I'll do chesed, I'm going to do chesed. He said pay attention, I pay attention. He said watch your eyes, I watch Whatever Hakadosh Baruch Hu said, it's in my power to do it, I'm doing it. If he said it, of course it's in my power to do it. A loving father is not going to tell you to go lift the car on top of your head if he knows that you can't do it. Everybody knows that. If he tells you to go lift a car on top of your head, either it's because you can do it or because he hates you. Now, Hakadosh Baruch Hu loves you. If he hates you, trust me, you wouldn't be here. David Hamelech says is a simple solution to all your problems. Do what you're supposed to and believe that Hashem is going to give you success. That's it. What's success? Success is what you want? No. Success is that you're going to at least feel fulfilled that you've done your job. Success is not necessarily that you're going to attain what you hope to attain. Success is that you are going to feel fulfilled that you've done something. You've done your best. You left everything on the field. This was one of the things that I remember as a kid that was an athlete. And one of the things that the coach used to tell us all all the time, leave everything on the field. Meaning, all week you practice, all week you run nonstop, and you lift weights, and you do this, and you do that, and you sweat in the heat, but in that case it was outside, here it's inside, Baruch Hashem. You do all these different things to put it, you know, to so game day arrives on Sunday, you win. But the reality everybody knows is at least a 50% chance you're not going to win. But what does a good coach tell his student? He says, "Listen, put it all on the field. Meaning, try your best. That's all you can ask from a person. You can't ask for a person to do something above his best. You can't ask a person to do something supernatural. Do your best. If you do your best, everybody will be happy with you, especially you. But if you don't do your best, not only is everybody going to have something to say about you, worse yet, you are never going to forgive yourself. Because you know deep down inside, you could have tried better.