Think You Can’t—You’re Right

6 ways to help you flip your switch from can’t to can, from I’m not good enough to I’m worthy of writing success

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If you think you can’t, you’re right. It’s a paraphrase of a famous adage attributed to the likes of Henry Ford, Norman Vincent Peale, Mary Kay Ash, Virgin in “The Aeneid,” or Samuel Johnson’s epigraph in an issue of “The Rambler.”¹

Regardless of who said it or when it still applies today.

But how do you flip your ‘can’t’ switch to ‘can’, or you aren’t <<insert your insecurity>> enough… to believing you are good enough? Here are 6 switch flipping strategies to enable you to believe you can.

1) Fake it until you make it

As Marie T Smith says in her Medium Article, “I Faked It Until I Made It,” faking it does NOT mean “…being a fraud. It is about imagining yourself walking in the shoes of a slightly more confident you, over and over again, until you can shed the shackles which stop you from making this your best year yet.”