9 Statements that you should use if you want to fail in life.

Mekatilili Wa Menza

 

1. It cannot be done( it’s impossible)- there's always a way...you may have to think outside the box to see the way but there's a way. Use this book to help you think outside the box. this  resource will help you challenge the inside the  box thinking 

2.I will do it tomorrow- what are you doing today, sothat you can postpone what you need to do now? Anyway you can beat that thought using these tips from  mindtools.com

3. One day am going to do it- When? stop saying that and get doing what needs to be done.Give your goals a time frame and get achieving them.You can overcome that challenge with these tips

MaryBethune

4. This is my personality- really? I thought that personalities are not static but dynamic...beware of this one, it  will inhibit  your growth, stunt your brain and before you know it you are living your life in auto pilot. look, it even has relatives

Am always like thisIt runs in our familyMy father/mother had it

    5. I will  never attempt that again( I tried and I failed)- Abraham Lincoln failed ( read about Lincoln failures here) several times before he became president. Richard Branson (read the full story from his website (read about what Branson says about failing here) has had his fair share of failures.Needless to say but if Thomas Edison had this statement in his vocabulary, we would still be reading during daytime.

Rosa Parks

    6. We have always done it this way-  resistors to change love this statement.It did not stop Rosa Parks from refusing to give up her seat for a white person. she challenged the status quo ushering a new fight against racism read about her here  and here.

    7. I (he/She) will never change- Who died and made you God? the only person who has power to declare a human being unchangeable is God but alas even Jesus said that ' nothing is impossible with God. Sometimes all we have to do(all we are called to do) is pray and trust God to do His thing.

Thomas Edison

    8.I am too this/too  that-They are not weaknesses for on the opposite end of too this or that is a strength. people who talk too much are good marketors, good hypers, people who are too quiet have the ability to see things that others overlook. we only need to see that other side of what we consider weakness. Mekatilili Wa Menza  was a Kenyan woman leader who led a rebellion against  the british colonial administration in 1913... Mary Atieno could have said she is blind ditto Reuben Kigame.but my favourite of them is Joyce Meyer with her mouth, boy! can she talk..

Colonel Sanders

        ( you can’t teach an old dog new tricks) tell Colonel Sanders that..He started the Kentucky Fried Chicken at the age of 67     9.If only I was….. or so and so is in my way- the only person who is in your way is you!nothing can stop you from doing what you want to do.Nothing stopped Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D from becoming the first woman doctor. read her story here.