Last year I ran a successful year-long program called Powered by Hope. The intent of the program is to help you follow your creative dreams by powering your spirit with hope! I am glad the program was so well received. This year, in addition to new posts, I will also be sharing a few of the best posts from the program. This month, you will get a post each Monday!

TRY

Reality, I have learned, is in the mind of the thinker. Case in point: I don’t know how to ride a bike. I never had the chance to learn when I was a child and then, after a certain point in my life, I felt like I was too old.

But then fine day, I decided that I would post on Facebook that I wanted to learn how to ride a bike and did people think I could do it. The answers were eye-opening. All those who knew how to ride a bike/had learned at an older age/were learning, all said: Yes, you can do it. Go ahead, get on. You will learn in no time.

And then came the other messages: Don’t do it, if you fall, you will break your bones and they will take forever to heal. And my favorite response: What is the advantage to you to learn how to ride a bike? You already drive a car so why bike. Also, You are too old, let it be.

Instead of learning how to ride a bike, I learned something even more critical about human nature: if we think we can do something, we will likely try it and do it. But if we think we cannot, we may never even try.

I think it was Henry Ford who said: If you think you can or you think can’t, you are right.

What are you trying to do that is different or new to you? I think you can do it. Do you?

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