What If I Stopped Saying I Can’t?
Those who advise people to follow their passion, no matter where it leads, are believers in intentionality*. Many meditation programs that advise that imagining ‘success’, what one wants to happen, is the first step towards its realization, are believers in intentionality (the second step, they will tell you, is acting in accordance). Those who will tell you that having the courage to ‘real-ize’ what you were always intended to be and do, by living on the Edge beyond the reach of civilization’s safety net, is the only sane way to live, the only hope for us as individuals and as a culture, are believers in intentionality. And so are the ‘power of positive thinking’ and ‘appreciative inquiry’ proponents. . . .
The word intention literally means stretching toward. The word aspiration means breathing toward. — Dave Pollard, How to Save the World
If I say I can’t, you can bet I can’t.
I can argue for my personal limits with a clean, clear case of exactly what I can’t do — certain beyond certain, that I can’t do what I say I can’t. The future is easy to predict when I lay down the law of my personal limits.
Suppose just one time, or maybe once and for all, that instead of the law of my limits, I laid down my can’t do arguments?
I intend to break the law of my limits.
I will do something I once believed I could never do.
I aspire without a care, without fear of failing.
I will stretch toward, breathe toward learning.
If I trip or fall, I’ll simply adjust my steps.
If I get lost, I’ll stop for help.
I don’t need luck, when I can make things happen.
I intend to stop fighting for limits, and start exploring possibilities.
That’s a reality I can make happen.
We can change the world — just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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