Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

Justin and I play Super Mario Brothers together. It is a challenge trying to get through the game with 2 people on the screen.

I have never been good with jumping on moving platforms. The ones where they move and you have to jump to another moving one in time before the other one falls.

I do not know what it is but it freaks me. Maybe because I am scared of falling or the timing is too much stress for me but I can’t do it.

Justin knows this because when ever we get to one of these levels, I tell him I can’t do it and he has to try by himself.

We were playing one level like this and Justin was getting more and more frustrated with not being able to complete the level. Finally he quits and takes a break.

While I am sitting there, I think I can do it and give it a try. With my one try I complete the level.

Was it because I saw him do it hundred times before me? Was it because I was more patient? Was it because I believe I could do it?

When we believe we can’t do something we already know the result we are going to get. No matter what happens, it won’t work out. We believe we can’t so we just won’t be able to.

But when you believe you can, no matter how many times you try, you will figure a way to make it happen.

Believing in yourself takes a lot of work but it pays off in the end. I wonder how many things you tell yourself right now that you can’t do, that you can if you only believed.

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