You Can Do This!

You Can Do This!

©Allen Merritt (2016)

The phrase of the week is, “You Can Do This!” I noticed it pop up at me while scrolling through my Instagram feed. It caught my attention as something to remember. Sounds like its own little pep talk, doesn’t it? You can do this. It has a sense of encouragement and positivity about it. And, it’s only four little words. I thought the phrase could work as our little On a Positive Note mantra for the week.  A bit of envouragement to brighten the day.

You Can Do This!


Try saying it out loud with various vocal inflections.

YOU can do this.

You CAN do this.

You can DO this.

You can do THIS.

Repeat it over and over when you are moving forward with the every day.

If you’re like me, sometimes you will need the reminder.

When you are getting what appears to be a run around at the bank and are told three different stories before someone actually gave you a straight answer forcing you to keep going back and forth three times from home to bank, home to bank, home to bank looking for the information they say they needed before you could finalize your paperwork. Tell yourself, ‘You can do this!”

If you are trying to keep track of a family member in the hospital and the facility keeps moving them from one wing to another and refusing to stay in contact with you as the “point of contact” so that you can be informed and make decisions accordingly, take a breath, be kindly assertive and remind yourself, “You can do this.”

When other individuals walk around like zombies heads buried in an electronic device not seeing, not watching, observing and/or looking like they are uncaring and apathetic despite the dangers they are causing, go ahead and shake your head, but find some humor, smile and sing out, “You can do this!” to yourself.

When you are given your boarding card and it’s number 12 to get on the bus and then several other people squeeze in and cut ahead of you who have number 36 and up claiming they are disabled when they so clearly are not. Remind yourself there are enough seats on the bus and everyone with a ticket with get one. “You can do this!”

On it goes day after day. We have to encourage ourselves to keep our mindset going in the right direction. Why? Because you can never totally predict where other people’s heads are at, what they are thinking, what they know, what is going on in their lives or anything for that matter. All we can do is adapt and adjust in the most positive manner possible and insist on getting it as right as possible for the betterment of all people, places and things.

Hurdles.? Obstacles? Bumps, humps and dips in the road?

You can do this!

Rude people? Obnoxious people? Selfish people?

You can do this!

If you have to say it out loud, do it.

If you feel like singing or shouting it with joyfulness, do it.

If you need to keep it to yourself prayerfully, go ahead.

Keep it positive and let yourself know that in any circumstance it’s okay and you can do it.

Better yet, mix it up. Remind yourself, “You can do this!” as if you are another person talking back at yourself. Then affirm the statement/mantra by saying, “Yes, I can do this!”

You can do this!

I can do this!

Doesn’t it simply sound good?

I think so and that’s my thought for the week.

You Can Do This!

I Can Do This!

We All Can Do This!

Spend the week reminding yourself repeatedly how you can do…anything!

Cheers.