Do It Today: Overcome Procrastination, Improve Productivity, and Achieve More Meaningful Things

If You Can Believe It, You Can
Achieve It
I know what you’re thinking. “This guy probably read a
motivational quote on social media, and now he’s telling us
that nothing is impossible. Yeah right.” I think the world has
no shortage of motivational articles, books, videos, or
Facebook posts. You don’t need a bigger dose of
#mondaymotivation. You know why? That type of
motivation is not practical. It doesn’t 
do
anything. It’s not
useful. It’s the same as drinking Red Bull. It fades quickly.
Belief, on the other hand, is a tool that’s extremely useful.
And it’s underutilized by many. The problem is that most of
us lack belief. And when I talk about belief, I talk about it
from a practical point of view. I’m not talking about hope or
faith. I don’t believe that you can “hope” for the best, sit
back and wait until good things happen to you. Hope is not
a strategy for life. I prefer to look at facts and make
conclusions like a pragmatist. Like it or not, but everything
that’s floating in that head of yours is there because you
believe it.
“Life sucks.”
“I’m not good at my job.”
“I can never find my dream job.”
“No one loves me.”
“I will never become successful.”
See? It’s all there because you believe those things. William
James, one of the primary figures associated with
pragmatism, put it best:
“Belief will help create the fact.”

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Belief is a practical instrument that you can use to
shape reality.
Have you ever considered that 
you
decide what you
believe? Not your friends, colleagues, family, or even the
media. You observe things, and then 
decide
what you
believe. That’s why belief creates facts. No, life is not an 
R.
Kelly song
. You can’t fly, no matter how hard you believe it.
A pragmatist always keeps it real.
You will never become a respectable
leader without putting in the work.
Your life will never change unless you take
action.
But that’s not the point. You know this. There’s no outcome
without action.
It comes down to one thing: Do you believe that you 
can
,
or 
can’t
live the life you want? It’s as simple as that. But it’s
something that you truly have to believe. It’s one thing
to 
say 
that you believe something. It’s a whole different
thing to actually 
believe
. Let me highlight that by sharing a
personal story. For most of my life, I lived in fear. It all
started at school. People told me:
“If you don’t get good grades, you will not be accepted to a
good university, and without a good degree, you will never
get a job, and you will become a bum who dies alone.”
After hearing that, my seventeen-year-old brain went into a
full-fledged panic mode. I started believing that stupid story.