These are the most disruptive words that someone can say. You wouldn’t think it, but people are really afraid of their own potential. The main reason that people do not achieve their dreams is not because they don’t have the talent, but because they don’t give themselves permission to attempt them. I am here today to say to you, “Yes You Can.” You can be what you have always wanted to be, you can achieve greatness, you can bring about the change in yourself and the world.

Barack Obama says, “Yes We Can” and I want to expand that to you. We as a whole can change the world, but you yourself can make change in your own life. It isn’t a movement, it is just you deciding what is important to you and going for it.

Sounds easy doesn’t it? Well here is the bad news, it isn’t. It isn’t that you will have a problem, but the people around you will. You see people aren’t used to believing in themselves, so when they see other people who do they will feel threatened by it. Of course they won’t admit that they are afraid, they will instead trying to bring you down. If they can’t have their dreams, they sure as hell won’t want anyone else to either. Some of them may have even forgotten that they ever even had dreams.

The inertia of the world can pull people so far down that they give up. They become so comfortable with it that they don’t even miss them anymore and will think that they are the normal ones. It isn’t normal to give up your dreams. Don’t let them be the drag that pulls you down.

Keep yourself in focus. Remember your dreams. What did you want to be when you were a child? What are you afraid of? Sometimes what you are afraid of is the one thing that you long to be.

But most important remember “Yes You Can”