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Would you rather be wrong about thinking you cannot run a marathon or right and actually run a marathon?
Let’s chat about how just because you don’t think you can’t do something, doesn’t mean it’s true.
Adventures have given me the opportunity to share my journeys and connect with people young and old, near and far. As an H2O for Life ambassador, it has been incredibly rewarding to see students take the message and run, walk, dance, craft, build, or do whatever is in their power to help with the global water crisis. There are also times where the very message I share, intended to encourage, uplift, and inspire is received with people sharing their doubts, fears, and limiting beliefs.
The discouragement often would be, “I could never run a marathon”. Naturally, my next question would be, “Oh, you’ve tried? Which one did you try?”
No one.
Not one single person.
Never has anyone who shared this belief dared to try.
No one who has run a marathon did it without actually attempting it first. It is physically impossible to run a marathon unless you try. You must be willing to try, which means you must be willing to fail. Doubts need to be set aside to uncover and discover what is true and what is fear covering truth.
“I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail, than to attempt nothing and succeed.”
I recently watched an uplifting movie based on a true story of someone who believed that they couldn’t run a marathon and later found out they were wrong. It is not the first time and it will not be the last time you hear a story like this one. That story can be yours. Maybe it’s not running, but whatever “your thing” is.
“You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.”
To everyone who has ever told me that it would never be possible for them to run a marathon, I hope you are wrong. I was. Maybe it’s not a marathon, but another “I could never…” limiting belief that might not be true. Daring to try is a part of the process, and makes crossing that finish line all the more rewarding.
I believe in YOU even and especially when you don’t. Your version of extraordinary is on the other side of trying, sometimes failing, and always trying again.
Is there something you’ve always told yourself that you couldn’t possibly do?
How can you accept failure as part of the process instead of a personal failure?
What would be the first step towards discovering your own possibilities?
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