From I can’t to I can.

William Michael Forbes




The only thing that separates can’t from can is a little t. wmf

A Well Known Fact: Life is only an appearance of events and circumstances that were imagined before they happened.

When I was in grade school a mantra that many of the teachers would have us say went like this; “Never say; I can’t” always say, “I’ll try.” In the nineteen eighty episode of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, the character Yoda says: “No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.”

I’ll “try” implies that there is a chance of not succeeding...whereas with DO or DO NOT...there is a clearly a distinction in that you have already decided, one way or another, to succeed or fail. Either success or failure requires a commitment and the commitment to either is equal in both its strength and intensity...there is no more or less effort required for either a successful outcome or a failure...although the effects of one may be experienced as drastically different.

Today’s how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is going to be in two parts...part one is going to be called “I Can’t” and will require that you keep a pen a pad handy, because you are going to write down as many of the I can’t moment as you can catch yourself thinking today. These will become a template for tomorrow’s blog which will give you an opportunity to move from I can’t to I can in a very conscious way. It doesn’t matter where or who you got I can’t from...it only matter that you identify what your I cant’s are in order to let them go. I cant’s can happen quickly or slowly and as long as you can catch them...you can let them go just as easily with actions and words that contradict your I cant’s. But for today all you need to do is recognize and write down whatever it is you think or believe it is you think you can’t do.

The benefit to getting as many I cant’s down as possible is that you will have half of the solution to overcoming them in your hand and available to your conscious mind. Take about a minute every hour to relax your body, relax your mind and then examine the I cant’s you’ve written down...and ask yourself this question for each I can’t;

“If I didn’t have this belief how would it make my life better?” then write down at least one answer. Towards the end of the day you may wish to ask this question for every I can’t you’ve written and put an answer by each one. This will prepare your conscious and sub-conscious mind for tomorrow’s blog as well as get your attention shifting towards I CAN and...

Have a great day!

William

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