Success is inevitable. Now prove it.

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So often I seeing people defaulting to the negative when they look at the future. "I can't do that," or, "That's not possible," or, "I'll just fail anyway, so why bother trying?"

What if they changed that habit? What if they defaulted to the positive instead?

Part of the challenge in countering that doom and gloom tendency is just getting our brains out of that negative default groove. In a way, it's about exercising our minds in a different way of thinking.

To practice that positive view, try saying, "Success is inevitable. Now prove it." Assume that the only possible outcome is success, then challenge yourself to prove how that can happen. It's a way of removing the critic and the negative analyst from the picture (and the accompaning slippery slope into a state of impossibility), and focusing only on how to make it happen.

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Comments

[Alex Fayle]

That's a great way of thinking! But unfortunately so many of us were talk (usually quite physically by our peers in middle-school), that confidence equals arrogance which needs to be pulled down (again with the physical emphasis).

So, we learned to stop saying "Of course I can do that," and learned to be the underachieving Bart Simpson - who is much more loved by the general public.