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You Can Do This! · The Daily Writer

• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's the beginning of a brand new year.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: You have dreams, you have goals, you have big things you want to accomplish in the next 12 months, and your mind is consumed by one overriding question.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: Can I do this?
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a question of whether anyone needs to give you permission, rather, it's a question of whether you can muster the resources, energy, creativity, discipline, and focus in order to do things you've never done before.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: There's many examples throughout history of people who faced the question, can we do this, when they were facing down extraordinary challenges.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: One such example is the Apollo space program from the 1960s.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: They were consumed with the question of whether they could develop the technology and processes to send a crew to the moon and bring them back safely to Earth.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: But they kept forging ahead, and the question of can we do this was finally resolved when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 21st, 1969.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: It took resolve, it took patience, it took hundreds of thousands of people working in and around the space program to make that moment finally happen.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: Now the cost of your goals will be considerably smaller, but there's a price to pay nonetheless.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: And the very first way you invest in your dreams is by first believing in yourself.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: Henry Ford famously said, whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're asking the question, can I do this?
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: the answer is most definitely yes, you can do this.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: You have what it takes.
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  SPEAKER_00: You really do.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: But first, you have to believe that it's possible.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.