Random musings: Believe in Yourself Even When No One Else Does

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Believe in Yourself Even When No One Else Does

Today's blog post is based on a column by Harvey Mackay:

I'm sure many of you have heard this saying:

If you believe that you can do something, you'll probably at least try to accomplish it and you just might succeed, but if you believe that you can't do it, you probably won't even try and you'll likely fail.

From Harvey:

Life is not a parabolic curve. It doesn't go straight up. There are a lot of lumps, a lot of bumps. I have never yet met a successful person that hasn't had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. Overnight success is much more of a myth than reality.

Talking about the 4 minute mile:

So, the experts decided it was physiologically impossible for a human being to run a mile in four minutes. Our bone structure is all wrong. Our wind resistance is too great. Humans have inadequate lung power. There were a million reasons - until one day when one human being proved the doctors, the trainers and the athletes all wrong.

In 1954, Roger Bannister showed the world that it could be done. Over the next few years, more and more people broke the four-minute mile once they realized that yes, it was possible.

We all face adversity in our lives, but is it a bad thing?

Botanists say trees need the powerful March winds to flex their trunks and main branches, so that the sap is drawn up to nourish the budding leaves. Perhaps people need to meet the stresses of life in the same way, though we dislike enduring them. A stormy period in our lives can be a prelude to a new spring of life and health, success and happiness. That is if we keep our self-confidence and faith in the future.

To wrap things up:

Who says that you can't accomplish your goals? Who says that you're not tougher and better and smarter and harder working and more able than your competition? It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. The only thing that matters is if you say it. So, we all know, if we believe in ourselves, there's hardly anything that we can't accomplish.

Just remember: