Episode 12: How can I get past the ‘I Can’t’ attitude with Donna Campisi

Ready! Set! Goal! with Donna Campisi

How can I get past the ‘I Can’t’ attitude?

All too often the words ‘I can’t’ can easily fall out of our mouths. If said too often, it can become an embedded belief that will never get you to that big goal you dream about.

When you take this belief out of your mind, then you gain confidence and the courage to achieve.

If we keep saying, ‘I can’t’, we actually tend to believe it after a while and the people around us do too; they’re not going to expect big things out of you, and neither are you!

Instead, we can create a habit to ask ourselves, ‘How can I?’

Have you ever noticed when someone asks you, ‘Can you do this?’ You’re either going to say yes or no. It’s just a one-word answer, isn’t it?

What if someone asked, ‘How can you?’ These words are great! It’s an interesting question to ask, because it actually makes you think instead of just saying yes or no. It’s easy to say no and it’s easy to make excuses – but, ‘How can I? How can I do this? How can I do that? How can I achieve my big scary goal?’ This is what it’s all about.

If there’s a big goal that you’ve been dreaming about and you’ve been either too scared or allowed someone to put it in your mind that it’s crazy, I understand. I’ve been there.

Through my experiences and what I have achieved, I’ll share my insights, not just from what I’ve achieved, but also from struggles and tough times that I’ve had as well. It hasn’t all been sunshine and lollipops, as they say.

Here, we’re going to learn new things about ourselves. When asking yourself, ‘Can I? Is it possible?’ a lot of people make excuses. Often, it’s either time or money stopping people achieving their big goals.

Sound familiar? I’ve had those reasons too, believe me. But then I stopped to think, ‘Okay, surely I can find another way. How can I possibly afford to do this? How can I find the time to do this?’

Two great questions. To find a solution, you need to think outside the box.

The thing is, if you ask yourself ‘can I’ instead of ‘how can I’, you’re always going to dream; you’ll never achieve that big goal and live with regret until the day you die.

We don’t want this to happen. I really want to help you by sharing my experiences, insights and steps for you to achieve your big, scary goal.

Moving past the ‘I can’t,’ is an important mind shift to achieving your goal. Believing you can is the first step when beginning the Baby Step Method to achieve your goals.

This is evident with many of our goals – some may seem like a crazy idea at first. But fixing in our mind that nothing could stop me from doing this, is the mindset we want, how much do you really want this?

We can all easily come up with so many excuses, we’re experts at that! But do you want to be that person?

‘Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.’ – Henry Ford

Focusing on your goal and not allowing other things to get in your way is a major path to success. But things in life will get in your way – that’s just life.

We can come up with plenty of reasons to say, ‘This it’s all too hard, I can’t possibly do this.’ Continue reading show notes at: https://donnacampisi.com/ready-set-goal/

You can also find more about this at TheUnlikelyMarathoner.com

The link to help you get started on your goal plan is at https://donnacampisi.com/the-baby-step-method/

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