I can't stand those two words.
I Can't.
Why can't you? What is stopping you from achieving your dream?
Don't answer that. I can already hear the 50 answers that are coming into your brain as I write these words.
Did you know that a recent study showed that only 10% of your happiness in business and life comes from the OUTSIDE? Yes you heard that correctly. That means that 90% of your success comes from the inside.
So I will ask you again... why can't you?
Take what is working and toss the rest. Refocus, rework and rebrand if you have to. Try again. NEVER stop trying! You got this!
Whatever your goal, just keep going and don't give up! I have complete and total faith that you will get to where you're going.
So when you see the words...
Impossible... flip it to I'm possible!
I'm a mess... no, you have a message! Take your mess and turn it into your launching pad!
Cancer... See the little word "can" in there? YOU CAN GET THROUGH THIS!
Don't... See the word "do" in there? You got this!
Don't believe me? Here are a few people who did exactly this...
- Dr. Seuss's first children's book was rejected by 23 publishers.
- Apple's first microcomputers were turned down by H-P and Atari.
- Gold Medalist Joan Benoit had knee surgery 17 days prior to the trials.
- Vince Lombardi didn't become a head coach in the NFL until he was 47.
- In his first three years in the auto business, Henry Ford went bust twice.
- Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
- Einstein's Ph.D. dissertation was rejected as irrelevant and fanciful.
- A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas. He later suffered through a bankruptcy and breakdown.
- Steven Spielberg dropped out of high school.
- Milton Hershey experienced bankruptcy in his pursuit as the "chocolate king."
- H.J. Heinz saw his newborn company forced into liquidation.
The lesson here is that NONE of these people let a little thing like failure stop them from achieving their goal. Even the greatest failed a few times on the way up. The difference is that after they fell, they got up, dusted themselves off and kept going... they never stopped.
Remember... Thomas Edison once remarked, "I haven't failed ten thousand times. I have successfully discovered ten thousand ways that didn't work."
