Do you believe in yourself or do you doubt your abilities?

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

I have a question for you….

Have you ever had a breakthrough thought in the strangest area or at the strangest moment or because of the strangest thing?

Maybe you were in the bathroom and it happened…(the breakthrough, ‘come on, keep it clean)

Maybe you were about to get in your car…

Maybe you were unpacking the groceries after going to the store…

Maybe it happened as you were crawling into bed and you stubbed your toe on that dang roller that sticks out just a little too much on the bed frame (yes, I have done that….)

Do you believe in yourself of or do you doubt your abilities?

Well, I had a breakthrough tonight about believing in yourself.

It happened, in what I thought was the strangest place, or rather under strange circumstances. I was explaining to my son about believing that he can do something.

I was explaining to him that as a dad, I want him to believe in himself as much as I believe in him. I told him that it is hard as a dad to see his son not believe in himself. I was saying to him, “You have to believe in yourself. You can’t take the belief that I have and use it. You can’t take your brother’s believe and use it. You have to believe in you. You have to believe in yourself.

As I was standing there saying that, it quickly occurred to me that he wasn’t the only one who struggled to believe in himself. I was standing there with the same struggled that he had and I wasn’t believing in myself either. I am not confident in parts of my life where I need to be and am working on, just like he is…. and there’s a 30 year age difference between us. After 30 years, I’m still struggling to believe.

My hope for him today is that he realizes that he is the one that needs to believe in himself and that I do and want him to, but to be successful and truly get to that point of believing, he is going to have to believe it himself. No one can do it but him. I hope he gets that so he will be doing the same thing that I’m doing right now in 30 years, encouraging his son (or daughter) to believe.

…..so let me ask you… Do you believe in yourself o do you doubt your abilities?

Let me be clear…I’m not asking if you THINK you can do it… I’m asking you if you BELIEVE you can do it. There’s a huge difference folks. When you believe, you can do ANYTHING…. When you think, you just take up valuable action time!

I encourage you to really learn the difference between thinking you can do something and believing you can do it. You’ll find belief in young kids. They don’t know that there’s a can’t. Look at animals that are untrained…. they don’t hesitate…it’s all out there… no holding back, whatever it takes type of belief!

Go get that belief!

Do what it will take to get that belief and you’ll start to see change in your life. Big change and you’ll feel differently to.

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Larry