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How do you achieve in anything you want in life? There are a lot of answers to this question and the very first step you need to take is to be a possibility thinker.

Believing is a state of mind before it is a state of heart. This simply means whatever you think in your mind, it will come true.

“Whether You Believe You Can, Or You Can’t, You Are Right” - Henry Ford

If you think that you cannot afford to buy a bungalow in this lifetime, then most likely you are not going to have one. However, when you ask yourself, ‘How can I afford to buy a bungalow?”, instead of saying, “I can’t afford it”, then the whole system and patterns of your action will change immediately.

Successful people do not usually say ‘Can’t be done’ to themselves. They often ask themselves, “How can it be done”. When you focus on the ‘How’, you will come out with all sort of creative ways to get the things done.

Take a look at what Thomas Edison said.

“I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others.

I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the one thing that he can’t afford to lose.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.

I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

- Thomas Edison

So readers, next time you have a goal you want to achieve in life, be it big or small, focus on the how, instead of saying ‘I can’t’.