Belief

# Chapter 87

Getting something amazing done requires first and foremost a belief that we can do it. If you don’t believe it then you won’t get it done. If you don’t believe you can then you won’t. And if you don’t believe in yourself then nobody else will believe in you either. When I was a kid I believed that those who were winners were those who were better stronger and more capable. But I came to realize that they simply believed in themselves and then they went out and did it. Unfortunately I came to understand this far far later in life, not when I was a kid. Belief is powerful and you need to stock up on it in life.

You need all of this that you can find and then some. Belief is the fertilizer of all the things you want to grow in your life. Belief is the gas that carries your vehicle much further than you can walk. Belief is the jet fuel that flies you across the ocean. Belief can make the impossible possible and the unlikely your everyday experience. Belief makes allies out of the most important people who will help you along the way and believe for you when you run out of belief.

In the end, those who do are those who believe they can and should. Those who don’t believe in themselves should get out of the lineup and become the water boy. Its just like the doorbell. We have been living here a year and the doorbell didn’t work. I kept trying to recruit people to help me fix it because I didn’t believe that I could do it myself. A year of living here and constantly fixing stuff gave me the power to believe in myself and after a really embarrassing event this weekend when a board member arrived at my house, in the pouring rain, and was punching the damn nonfunctioning doorbell while getting soaked, did I get off my duffer and change the godsblasted piece of crap! Now I have a functioning doorbell. It wasn’t even difficult once I believed I could.