Yes you can
Yes you can
Life is often hard. Life is not always fair.
A successful person blames no one and no one who places blame will ever become successful.
But as long as you see yourself as helpless in the face of your circumstances, you give away all your power. Henry Ford, who built the first car factory, said: “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” The moment you start saying “I can” instead of “I can’t”, you take back your power and make everything possible.
Your decisions, everything you do, are yours to celebrate – or sometimes to regret and learn from. One recent graduate wrote: “The world does not owe me anything. However my life turns out is up to me. Yes I have no control over some things, but how I feel about situations and how I react all depends on me.”
Look at the table below and the examples supplied, then think of the circumstances in your life and do the same exercise.
| Things I believe are holding me back | How I can overcome them |
| I have no space to study. | I can go to the library/a friend’s house. |
| My lecturer is not qualified/is a weak teacher. | I can form a study group in which the best student teaches the rest of us. |
