"The phrase I can't is the most powerful force of negation in the human psyche."

-- Paul R. Scheele, Chairman, Learning Strategies Corporation

Do you know that when you say "I can't" you are actually giving up any hope that you can? Once you say "I can't", a very powerful circuit, which I will call the I-can't circuit, in your brain will kick into action. And what does it do? It will disable or sabotage the part of your brain that is responsible for cooking up ideas and solutions. I can this part of the brain the "I-can" circuit.

God created your (and my) brain with the ability to solve any problem that comes your way, as stated in the bible (1 Corinthians 10:13). But for your brain to really look for ideas to solve your problem, you have to truly believe that "you can" solve the problem, that you can handle the challenges. Once you say "I can", and you truly believe in your heart, then something magical will happen -- your creative mind will kick into action to look for ideas, and solutions. And sooner or later, your brain will come-up with an idea or ideas that are winners.

One of the reasons why a person fails to reach his dream is because once the going gets tough, when a problem becomes too difficult to solve, he simply quit and stop trying. He doesn't realize that by sticking around, by believing that he can, his brain will set to work to find a solution(s).

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"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."

-- Napoleon Hill

Everything started out as an idea that popped up in the mind of the inventor; the diaper, the paper, the pencil, the car, the airplane, the spaceship, etc. are just a few of the millions of examples. But the product of ideas are not just limited to physical things; take for example the computer codes and applications, the search engines like Google and Yahoo, online stock market trading, etc.

Idea is so precious and so valuable because these have the potential to change lives. Unlike gold in which the value is already more or less fixed, the value of ideas is unlimited. Suffice to say, brilliant ideas are more valuable than gold.

Ideas are like gold, it should be mined. But instead of digging down on earth, we have to dig into our mind or the mind of other people. How? By asking questions! Leading and penetrating question are the key that will open our mind, our imagination which will produce ideas.

One of the reasons why you and I are wonderful creatures is because we all have the capacity to generate good to brilliant ideas; ideas that can make a positive change not only to our lives but to the entire world. Sink this fact to your consciousness and awareness and you are in a better position to generate good to brilliant ideas. The next time somebody ask for your ideas don't take yourself lightly. Ideas are the change agents of the world, and you have to power to create them.

Now take time, and think about it.

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"Winning means being unafraid to lose."

--Fran Tankerton, one-time great NFL quarterback

It's true that we cannot always win in life but we can always give our best. Being able to give our best means we are able to achieve performance success. Once we reach this level in our performance our chance of success will greatly increased. In fact, performance success or being able to give our best is one of the success factors in life be it in business, work, competitions, etc.

However, if you start worrying whether we will succeed or not, whether you will win or not, whether you will make it or not, then chances are your performance level will start to go down. Everything will not come easy anymore, and it will be an uphill battle from there.

I remember when I was in high school, I represented, as board one chess player, the Mandaue City Schools Division during the 1996 Regional Meet held in Bohol, Philippines. During the early part of the tournament I lost all my first three games. I was so disappointed with my performance because I knew I can do better. However, something happened because I won the remaining six games, straight. As a result I placed third in the individual ranking.

What happened? During the first three games I was so nervous and got intimidated with my opponents that my thoughts were mostly centered on losing. I even remember that I thought that there's no way I can win. I simply forgot to think about winning. But something strange happened when I decided I stop thinking about losing; I relaxed and started to enjoy the game. Automatically, I started focusing on finding ways to win, and my performance level increased a lot. I was so satisfied with my performance that I couldn't almost believe it.

Bottom line, no matter how prepared you are, once you started entertaining thoughts of losing, pictures of you losing and humiliated will start playing in your mind like a movie, and you will start to have self-doubt. Once this happened performance success will start to tip to the other direction which is performance failure.

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