Being Told "You Can't"

Formulas for change are almost as prolific as opinions: and you know what they say about opinions. For an individual or group, guidelines can serve a valuable purpose to avoid sins of the past and help set the next milestones for change you haven't made before. But be careful and skeptical when someone says you can't achieve some change or goal because of your situation, conditions or environment. No one has the same parameters to work with in making a change, ultimately you are solitary, the complexities different and the time in which you perform the transformation is unique.

History teaches us many things and proves time and time again that those that ignore history are destined to repeat it [usually in a bad way]. Almost as if you need to do it again, until you get it right. History also teaches us that those that are told they can't; if fact CAN. The only one that can tell you, "you can't" and be right, is yourself.

If anyone tells you "you can't", recognize that the 'can't' is only a lesson they may have learned on a particular way to make a similar change. Find the lesson and learn from it. Do Not take it as a directive. Take it as a suggestion that you may need to find a better way, but with better knowledge you can, just not the same way someone else did.