It Can Happen

This week’s post is about how when people say to you, “ it can’t happen” or “ it’s never been done before” or “ that’s not what usually happens”.

All of those statements may have been accurate in the past, but they may only have been accurate because in the past you did not know differently, you were unaware of other possibilities or opportunities.

Each of us learns new things often once we have learnt them the way that we went about learning them is forgotten. Any struggles we may have had slip away, it’s almost as if the new skill has washed away those memories of the harder times of attempting to learn, the frustration of ‘getting to grips with this’ has gone with the mastery of the new skill.

Having once learnt something, it can then seem ludicrous if someone says to you about this skill that you know you have learnt, such as learning to write, drive a car or use a computer that “ it can’t happen” or “it’s never been done before” or even “that’s not what usually happens”.

In the past each of us knew less and could do less than we do now, using the same logic each of us in the future will therefore know more and be able to do more than we can do now.

By way of inspiration please look at the video here, it shows how the most deeply held ‘knowledge’ we believe we may have,  may actually need re-evaluating and updating so that we can truly believe within ourselves that “it can happen”, “it does happen” and wouldn’t it be wonderful if it became such that “it is what usually happens”.