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Most entrepreneurs have heard it before:

• That won’t work
• You can’t do that
• Dumb idea
• Who would use that

Those are the naysayers.  Unfortunately, those types of comments often come from family or friends you have shared your ideas with.  It’s reasonable to assume that most great entrepreneurs also heard the words of naysayers: Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Aaron Patzer, Sara Blakely and others.

The difference between those people and the entrepreneurs that are still “thinking” about starting a business is they believed in themselves and they turned their belief into action.

The “I Can’t” List

If you are frustrated with lack of progress on a particular item and feel as though you are the only one that believes in it, develop an “I Can’t” list.  Write down all the things you think or someone has told you, you can’t accomplish:

• I can’t start a business
• I can’t become successful
• I can’t be an eloquent, motivating speaker
• I can’t develop passive income streams
• Etc.

Once your “I Can’t” list is complete, burn it, tear it, crumble it or simply rip it up and throw it out.  You can do those things.  As Napoleon Hill put it: “whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”

Eliminate “I Can’t” From Your Vocabulary

The next time someone tells you, you can’t accomplish something, ignore them.

The next time you think you can’t do it, do it anyways.

If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it.  Eliminate “I can’t” from your vocabulary.

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