Attitude: Here Lies I CANT - Rest In Peace

Attitude has a direct impact on your success, no matter how you define that success. Whether success to you is being a good student, a profit-generating business man/woman or raising a child that is ready for what the world has to offer. Your attitude, positive or negative, will have a direct impact on the quality and quantity of your success.

Your attitude is a primarily driven by the things in your life, past, present and future that you focus upon. If you focus on the successes, both large and small, of your past and your present, then your future will continue to be populated with such successes. If, however, your focus is on that which you did not accomplish, then your future will be clouded with events and tasks that you believe you cannot accomplish.

A small example of such a “can’t focused” attitude comes directly from my own experience. Some would say that I have a gift for drawing. For as long as I can remember I have been able to draw anything that I could see. Birds, tanks, cats, airplanes and even the human body were the topics of many of my drawings in the past. However, I am red/green color-blind. Growing up knowing that I did not see color the same way the rest of the world did – led me to the belief that I could not draw in color, nor paint in color. This self-limiting attitude followed me into my 30s, when I finally decided to bury the believe that I cant do in color what I have been able to so crisply do in pencil for many years. I bought a painting kit and video, watched some public broadcast TV episodes of Bob Ross. With in a week I had painted my first full color lakeside sunset scene complete with wispy clouds and proud tree lines. Now to be honest, it was no Picasso but I felt a pride that one feels when they finally overcome an obstacle that has been in their way for far too long. This was the moment I decided it was time for the death of all my “I Cants.”


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attitude and the death of your can’ts