Never Say Never

What would we accomplish if we believed anything is possible?

I've been asking myself that question a lot lately. I'm transitioning from a 20 year career as a consultant, reinventing myself as an author and a speaker/business coach.There are days when I know I'm on the right track. The book is coming along, I have so much I want to share with audiences that I can't decide what to present in my first platform product. Everything is moving full speed ahead and I can feel my new life right here, right now.

Then there are days when I think it will never happen. I begin to question whether I can really make this change, start to limit my possibilities. I'm only fooling myself and throwing away my career. My dream life will never happen. Those are the really bad days.

A key to success is believing.

We all have crises of faith - in ourselves, our business, our world. I don't think that's unusual. The trick is to nip it in the bud, pivot our thinking and focus on that dream as if it were already real. We can manifest anything in our lives - if we believe.

These cowboys believed in the impossible. 

The first time I saw this video - I was astounded. I'm a horsewoman, born and bred. I was riding  before I could walk.  I thought I'd seen everything. I obviously hadn't.  Patches and these cowboys helped me once again appreciate the power of belief - in ourselves and in those around us. Let me know if they do the same for you!

I'll surely never say never again.

Comments

[Eric Goldman]

Hi Rebel;
Great post - thanks! But the Patches video left me underwhelmed. Sure, where there's a will there's a way, but I would have thought your story of reinventing yourself as an author would be more indicative of never say never.
I too tried my hand at writing. Long ago, a textbook on Project Management; more recently a novel. I found, while attempting to get these books published, that I used your slogan every day: Every time I received a rejection slip. With more than half a million English books published annually these days, getting yours to be one of them is a daunting, difficult, and most often, unsuccessful undertaking.
The motive behind me commenting here is simply this: now that you have something to say (your books and blog), the name of the game becomes establishing an audience. And you're a marketer! Obviously, your next big project, and one for which you will probably have to repeat your mantra every day, is to forge an audience by using all those marketing skills.
Like you, I went the self-published route, and I used to say, in my book proposals to agents, that I had adopted the Field of Dreams approach - publish it and they will read it. But now I know better. It's more accurately said as, "Publicize it, and they will come." So go for it girl. Never say die.