This is the kind of negative self-talk that I have frequently with myself. The truth is that if I can breathe, then I can do it. This is what I say to my three years old, “If you can breathe, I know you can use your words.” “If you can breathe, I know you can walk over and come to mama when I call you.” “If you can breathe, I know you can listen to me.”

We don’t get to do what we want all the time. But, we CAN do it.

When I was in my hospital room waiting for my grueling 36 hours of labor to be over, I didn’t think that I’d enjoy the whole process, but somehow, I did.

Think back to a time that you had a tremendous success that you didn’t expect. Hold that thought. Visualize all the happy feelings that success generated in your mind.

What did you learn from that success?

Well, you learned that you are made of “something else”. You learned that you are one “strong” and “smart” person. You learned that you can “overcome”. You learned that you CAN do it.

Time has nothing on you

When you want to accomplish a goal, there’s no concept of time involved. You simply break the goal into small steps. Every day, you diligently take one step. It doesn’t matter how long it takes. If you don’t finish the step, you do it the next day. Once you finish one, you move on to the next one. You simply climb those stairs for better or worse.

Time is but a concept humans developed to calculate distances in space.

It’s an abstract concept. You don’t need it in your life. Get rid of it. Focus on your actions instead. Focus on the steps that will get you toward your goal.

Hurdles have nothing on you

What are the hurdles? Do you hear them? Can you see them? Are they overwhelming? They are all in your mind. Hurdles are barriers you put up because you are scared. Steve Jobs is a great example. If you read about his life, you will realize that he’s a master at asking for the impossible. This is his managing style. Guess what? People routinely delivered the impossible to him. Time and again, they did over and over again. This is how Steve Jobs changed the world.

There’s a possibility even in the impossible.

Hurdles are simply mental barriers. Once you clear them in your mind. You have a much better chance to overcome the hurdles.

Physical limitations have nothing on you

Are you smart? Are you agile? Are you physically conditioned? Are you abled rather than disabled? Our limitations, the physical limits are there to restrict our movements in this world. The truth is that to see beyond the limitations is a skill rather than a mindset or an art. Seeing beyond the limitations of your physical conditions is simply a choice that you make every day until you internalize it.

Limitations are only limiting if you allow them to be.

Breaking through limitations is what humans are made for. We were given the powers of our mind, our physical body, and our environment to allow us to breakthrough. Wasting our precious resources to simply sit idol and accept our conditions is also a choice. For every choice you make, you live with the consequences. Wouldn’t you rather choose to be better?

Life has nothing on you

People complain that luck is not on their side. Somehow, success is often the product of luck and hard work. The truth is that when you talk about your success this way, you are talking down your success. Your success is the product of your hard work. Your hard work might not have been blood, sweat, and tears. But, it was still your hard work. Life has ends and beginnings. But, within that life, you determine your ends and your beginnings.

What life brings is infinite possibilities.

You heard me, possibilities are infinite in this world. As long as you have a life, your choices are infinite, your problems are infinite, your happiness is infinite. You only have one responsibility: to live your possibilities.