Don’t Let This Thought Become The Enemy Of Your Success
“I can’t”
I am going to be extremely direct here: If your thoughts stop right there already you are simply giving up.
It is the coward who says they cannot do something because they are afraid to take responsibility for what they could do.
If you were truly brave, if you truly wanted to do it you wouldn’t bother with what you cannot do and looked for ways to do it anyway!
“How can I do it?” would be your go-to thought.
Of course, it won’t be always easy!
There are certain situations in which things just don’t go well.
You may be stuck without a job, unable to afford anything you want.
Maybe in a horrible relationship with no signs of it changing.
Or maybe at the end of your rope emotionally with no idea how to start.
But if you can just shift this one thought you will find your next step!
What can you do to get more money in and find that job? What are all possibilities?
What can you do to make your relationship-life better? Can you leave? If so, how? Or can you work on the relationship? What have you not tried yet?
And what could you do to smile today? Find that tiny spark, wherever it may be and however small it might appear and do what you must do!
Successful people look for what is possible.
They do not look at what they cannot do and find a way around it, looking for what is possible and what they can do.
No matter how shitty it might get if you just focus on what is possible for you and what paths you could take you will find a way out!
But that takes courage!
It takes courage to admit that there is something you can do and not throw in the towel.
It takes courage to stand up again and again and again and try to find a way out of a hopeless situation.
It takes courage to look at the darkness and the void in front of you and dive through it!
If you are always saying you cannot do something you train yourself to give up in the void; you tuck your tail and run.
That lack of courage is your enemy of success.
Originally published at http://quora.com.
