Once in a while—or all the time for some people—we tend to give up so easily on things we think we can’t do. The truth really is that we can do them, we just tell ourselves we can’t. Did you want to learn to play guitar, become a designer or architect but gave up? For me it was learning how to build a website that I quite frankly had no clue how to do. Time, time is your friend. How you form your relationship with time is also key. Fortunately I realized early on making something happen takes time and you have to just do it.

Let me say that one more time—believe in yourself and just do it.

Sure it sounds like a line out of a self-help book, but really we all really need to read it. Sometimes its not just that we think we can’t do things its that other people tell us we can’t do them. The next time someone tells you something isn’t possible, question why. I would not be surprised if the majority their reason falls onto the laziness side rather than the technical. Laziness isn’t your friend but time is. Tame your time because the technical is only a small puddle between you and your goal.

What I’m trying to say is that the guy in this video, Og De Souza, didn’t give up skateboarding just because he doesn’t have the same ability to use his legs as we do. He persevered. He said the hell with those who think I can’t do it and the thoughts of my own thinking I can’t do it. I can’t think of a more perfect example than this to fuel your fire driving you forth with your next goal or project.