What Can’t You Do?

Well you probably think you can’t do plenty of things. Think about it for a moment.

What are the top three things that come to your mind? Take 30 seconds to write them down on some paper or simply think of them in your mind. It just takes 30 seconds. I can’t                 (fill in the blank)

Ok. So what are those things you can’t do?

Perhaps you can’t have the money you want. You can’t have that relationship you want. Or is it that you can’t have that great looking body you’ve always wanted? Perhaps you think you can come up with a list of a million things you can’t do.

Even if it’s none of the aforementioned, you’re wrong !

Why?

Well that’s an excellent question. Let me answer by asking you another question.

What do you not know how to do?

You don’t have to write it down this time. I bet you could think plenty of different things you don’t know how to do.

I don’t know how to pilot a plane. I don’t know how to cook fugu-fish. I don’t know how to speak Chinese, or even use twitter ! But hey, I’m not here to tell you what I don’t know how to do.

My point is, you might not be able to do it, but isn’t it possible that you can learn to do it?

The answer is absolutely YES! Everything can be learned. You can go take a course, buy a book, ask someone, or simply take the time to figure it out by trial and error. 

You can’t know everything but you can do anything you set you mind to do!

You might say, Yeah, but now I’m 18, I can’t enlist in a class for little five-year-olds. Of course you can’t! That simply isn’t possible because you are no longer a five-year-old. Don’t try to fit something into a category, that by definition is exterior to the category you are trying to put it in. But what’s stopping you from enlisting in a class to learn what they teach in those five-year-old classes.

You can do anything ! The only thing stopping you at the moment is the fact that you don’t yet know how to do what you want to do. You need knowledge.

When you have acquired it, you can no longer say: I don’t know. You do, and therefore you can do what you want.

There is then nothing you can’t do.

Now if you want to do what you thought you couldn’t do you need to put in place the right stuff to make it work. You now have to actually do it. Take a simple action that gets you a step closer to what you want to accomplish.

Therefore, now, when asked what you can’t do, your answer must be: “nothing”. You are constantly evolving, moving, breathing. Even if you suppose you could do nothing, you would still be doing something, you would be doing nothing.

This is something that I have found to be very powerful. Just a simple change of language will forever change the way you see things and it will affect your limiting beliefs and the story you tell yourself

Don’t limit yourself unnecessarily, keep your doors open.

If you want to do something, you can do it. There is nothing you can’t do

You need to acquire basic knowledge. If you don’t know where to acquire the knowledge you want, do some research, ask around and you will find knowledge is always there for those who search for it. 

The next critical step after having gathered the knowledge is, wait for it, this is really common knowledge, but it’s worth repeating, it is taking action. I know, quite obvious right. Yet most of us struggle with this basic idea everyone understands intuitively yet few people actually undertake. In future post I intend to dive deep into the science of how we take action.

All that is left is doing it. Finding the motivation and courage as well as strong reasons to do something will help you achieve what you first thought you couldn’t do.

 

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