Yes You Can - No You Can’t

Written by Alex Marlin on January 21, 2008 – 3:00 am -


A lot of people can’t figure out what they want to do or why they are not happy. The process is kind of unlearning what has been taught or ignoring your upbringing and believing more in yourself. It is a type of impulsive way of acting and doing things that many would consider weird.

If your not happy with your job, then you should really look deep within yourself, a type of soul searching and start analyzing what is wrong with you or why your feeling bad about yourself. Many of the negative traits has been created from a very young age, and the doubt that you walk with today is more from disbelief and a very low self esteem that you have of yourself. Many of you can’t admit, or better phrased, won’t give into the problem, or the root of what is causing you to feel that way. And that is what I will try to demonstrate today.

As you go about your daily chores today, I want you to pay keen attention to what is happening in your mind. You have to witness how many times your mind will tell you that you can do this and a few minutes later say you can’t. That is the power of your brain, it is in a constant fight, fighting with your past programming and future demands that your expressing.

Many times, you will say you can and I do believe you can, but as you speak to people about your desire or the things you want to do, they will talk you out of it. And you simply follow what everyone says and not what you really want.

So why is this?

The answer to that question is trust and belief, believing in your own abilities and pushing beyond what anyone says. I can’t stress how important it is to believe in your own abilities and to stop seeking confidence in what everyone thinks of you or says to you.

To give you a great example, I will take Starbucks owner and CEO, Howard Schultz, who everyone believed that his simple idea of selling coffee to the to the US, from an Italian coffee-bar idea he saw, would fail. He didn’t listen to anyone and convinced the company to start one branch in the U.S. He later got his own brand of coffee bars and left the company he was working for. He then got enough venture capital together and bought out that company, and that is how Starbucks was born.

He later grew the company beyond beliefs and then decided to do the impossible, and that was to take this company overseas, to China. He hired seven top consultants to do market research, each one reported back to him that they don’t picture this culture walking around with Starbucks cups in their hands. He felt disappointed with their results and fired them.

Can you guess what he did?

He continued with his idea, and went into the market, and today, you can see many Chinese folks walking around with Starbucks coffee cups. It goes to show, just believe in yourself and your idea, many can’t see what your seeing, they don’t have the picture you have in your head.

The moral of this little story shows you that many people believe they know what’s best for you, but only you can seed your idea and make it grow, don’t let no one steel your dream, push forward and do what it is you want to do. When you find what makes you happy, it will show on your face, you will be a much happier person.

When I set out to create this blog, I started experiencing with website building, I didn’t tell anyone about the idea I had. I wasn’t going to let anyone stop me from doing what I wanted to do, because I know many would have told me that it would not make it or no one would read what I have to say, or getting people to visit the site would be impossible. Now, looking back, I am glad I did, many people from around the globe come to this site on a daily basis, because many are getting the benefits from my writing. Many people are greeting me, some whom I don’t even know. And much of the appreciation that I am getting is because of the great information that I have on my blog, and that came from the changes I made, and the personality that I have created. My attitude now is to always be helpful, alert and always listening to all. I try hard not to participate in negative talk.

I have many die hard fans, who really promotes my blog to many readers via word of mouth. Just want to say thanks, and I do respect and love you for what your doing.

Moving on to the meat of this post, and that is the naysayers, the people who are telling you, no you can’t. Once one person tells you that you can’t do this or that, your mind kicks in and starts sending all those negative feelings and emotional ideas of how you can’t and why you won’t. Your mind plays dirty tricks, and you will have to push beyond that and overcome the naysayers and fight your mind to prove you can.

The way to do that, is to just take the first step, by taking the first step, you will overcome any doubt you have and from that first seed, you will learn to grow and implant the idea you have much stronger. You have the ability to move mountains, but you have to first get in the habit of pushing beyond your comfort zone.

Let me repeat what I just said above: “Get out of your comfort zone, just start with that dream or idea you have, do something today and every other day from now on.” My motto, is to live with this one thought: “Yes, I can…”

Do you have a dream and your unsure where to go from here?

Would love to hear your ideas, and would like to know why you haven’t gotten started!


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