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You must do the things you think you cannot do is a quote by eleanor roosevelt that i found on brynee quote that i think you might enjoy hearing more about for me i had to do the things and still have to do the things i cannot do in order to have a good life today things that seemed impossible because often my idea of what i can and cannot do is completely wrong and
When i am willing to go forward and try doing the things i cannot do then sometimes i’m able to have amazing breakthroughs for example for me one of the things i thought i could not do was to not take a drink when i felt like i had to i thought i could not do that so i had tried so many times and i was sure that if i felt the urge to drink i had to give in to it
Rather it was today or the day after i had to give in to it at some point and the first time the first time the urge was so bad i thought i was going to die and i didn’t take that drink that i stayed away from it the first time that happened i started to believe there was a bigger world possible the world gets really miserable when you think you know everything that
Can and cannot happen when you do the things you think you cannot do you break out of the prison that many of us have put ourselves in the prison of what we can do and what we can’t do i’m amazed to see what other people think they can’t do because i see so much potential in everyone what i’m doing right now a few years ago i would have thought would be impossible
If you would have said jerry can you have almost two million people that like your facebook page i would have said i can’t do that jerry can you make a couple thousand videos online and upload them i can’t do that i remember seeing someone that had 20 udemy courses and thinking you know if i’d had that i’d have it made but i can’t do that i can’t go make 20 udemy
I have 46 today and the only way i’ve been able to do that is that i’ve done the things i thought i couldn’t do and a lot of them they’re not monumental accomplishments like climb mount everest they’re things like i can’t forgive this person for what they said someone just posted a comment on my facebook page and my first response to that is that i can’t forgive
That person for saying something so nasty and that gives me the chance to work and to say i can try to do something i think i can’t do i hear people so often say things like i can’t do that especially as it comes to relationships other people things like i’ll never forgive my mom for what she did to me or i can’t forgive my mom or in the context of health things
I can’t eat healthy i can’t stop taking these drugs i can’t be a better person in the situation i can’t get a better job i can’t do more at work i can’t rest more i can’t stop drinking i can’t stop doing this bad habit i have i can’t i can’t i can’t if you respect everything you think you can’t do then you are in a prison of often a very small space of things you
Can do which often become very repetitive obsessive compulsive habits because they’re the only safe things you can do i can go back and check the door after i’ve left three times to make sure it’s locked i can circle back around and go check the garage door to make it shut i can go back and make sure i unplug the curling iron it’s when you get ocd habits they’re
Often a reflection that all the things you can’t do have stuck you in such a place where you only have a few things left you can safely do i thought for a long time in my life that i can’t lose weight i can’t maintain an ideal body weight i can’t have muscles i can’t be in shape i can’t look good i can’t have a good girlfriend or a good wife i can’t have a family
If i actually had not tried to do any of the things i thought i can’t do right now i see the facebook awards and i had the thought i can’t possibly win one of those awards so what’s the point in even trying i am going to try because you must do the things you think you can’t do especially the things that have a good motivation behind them for example i can’t help
A million people online i’m willing to try to help a million people online a little bit i’m not saying it would be a gigantic earth-shaking thing i’m willing to try and help one person at a time every single day with what i do because i don’t honestly know what i can and can’t do i hear a lot of people and my support group meeting for alcohol a a they say i can’t
Take a drink and i realize that i can i realize the things i can do are very wide and that encourages me when i live in a world of things i can do to carefully pick out what is the right thing for me to do when you set something up that you can’t do and it’s a bad habit it often makes it more attractive when you say oh i can’t do this get this bad thing i’m thinking
About doing i can’t do it i can’t do it i can’t do it it actually makes it more attractive and you want to do it and if you set things up where you are in a world where you can do almost anything then it encourages praying for guidance in doing the right thing when you see you’re in a world full of possibilities i had a friend and he used to come to my support
Group and i don’t know what’s happened to him he’s went out and he’s in all kinds of alcohol and drugs and he’s been in jail and he when he talked to me he was filled with i can’t do this and what i could see in him was the potential to do amazing things online i can’t do that i learn how to do that i can’t do that i can’t do that i can’t do that and he went back
To seeing and doing what he thought he could do the few things he thought he could do get high and get drunk and live a life that’s full of sickness and suffering and that’s okay i can love and accept anyone else’s life today i used to think that i can’t accept people who are this political party i can’t like people who think differently tonight i can’t have a
Friend who’s ugly or fat i can’t be a good person in a relationship i can’t respect a woman i used to have a lot of ridiculous things that i thought i can’t do and the more i’ve tried to do the things i think i can’t do the more amazing things have happened mostly in my inner life i have a life of peace today where i realize there’s a lot i can do and i need help
Being guided to do what’s best when you see there’s a million things you could do right now it’s pretty overwhelming it is way overwhelming to comprehend the full scope of what you can do the most helpful things for me to get through or often some of the things i can’t do when i’m mad and frustrated with my wife i sit there and think i can’t forgive her i can’t
Be nice to her i can’t just keep doing what she thinks i should do i can’t do things how she wants to like last week we talked about i can’t go to bed every night with you i’ll miss out on gaming with my friends i’m willing to try and it doesn’t sound like much you might say well what difference does that make our lives are very fin it every day every moment we
Have is special and holy and worth doing the best you can each moment and you ultimately are doing the best you can each moment for me a big way to do better has been to see that if i think i can’t do something i better look at it more closely now of course a few limited things are helpful but even then i could say why can’t jump off a building that’s not true i
Know i can go jump off a building and i pray that that’s not what i go do today because i real i can do that i can do almost anything so it’s tough when you have all these things you can do it promotes fear you get to be afraid once you see all the things you could do you get to be afraid of missing out on all opportunities well if i could travel i could travel
Almost any country in the world and then the fear comes in well then i’m gonna miss out i got to get started i got to get going when you think you can do something it’s a lot more likely you can actually do it and some of the biggest challenges in my life have been when i thought i can’t do something that i need to do i need to stop eating so bad but i can’t i
Need to stop drinking but i can’t i need to stop shaming myself but i can’t those are the most important cats i’ve ever gotten through in my life and at some point and each day now at some point i had to say you know what i don’t know if i can do this or not and to try it just enough to say you know what maybe i can eat better maybe i don’t have to have three or
Four thousand calories every day maybe i can get through today without drinking maybe i can get through today without getting an argument or screaming at someone maybe i can get through today without lying to someone or trying to cheat someone maybe i can get through today and feel like i’m a good enough person who is worthy of loving and caring and understanding
I pray today to be willing to do the things i can’t do when i think i can’t do things that i need to do i pray today to have an open mind about what i can do and what i can’t do and to receive guidance on doing the things i need to do that are right that are kind that are helpful i pray that you have the same chance today to have courage to try doing something you
Think you can’t do especially if you think you need to do it something for your health your relationships your job anything you think you can’t do that you know you need to i hope this gives you courage to try because a lot of other people gave me courage to try and i’m paying it forward as best i can thanks for watching have a great day
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"You must do the things you think you cannot do." By Jerry Banfield
