She Believed She Could So She Did
My clients, friends and family know there's one word that gets under my skin more than any others: "can't". I should have been counting, but over the past 2 1/2 years in any training groups I have coached, if I heard that sneaky little word, as a team, we have all done 50 push ups as a reminder of how we use our words. I kid you not, we have done thousands of push ups during that time, hundreds in certain workouts. I'm a believer of mind over matter. What you tell your mind your body will live out. "I can't do 50 push ups." "I can't reach down to tie my shoe." "I can't keep from drinking diet coke." "I can't run 1 mile." When I hear the "c" word, I literally cringe because I know that the user is debilitating themselves with one little four letter, contracted word: "can't". Ouch. My mom is 85. In a conversation with her yesterday, I bet she said "can't&q