🚫 “You can’t do that.”
Four words. Dismissive. Deflating. Designed to shrink your world into the size of someone else’s comfort zone.
But I’ve got five different words in response:
I can. And I will.
Last week was a grind. I was in Poland, up to my ears in DIY chaos, snapped window handles, broken shower taps, light fittings that belonged in a museum. Add a language barrier to the mix, and you’d think the odds were against me.
But the biggest obstacle wasn’t split washers or outdated fittings. It was the shrugging shoulders and the universal chorus from store staff:
“You can’t do that.”
They refused to sell me what I needed. “Won’t work,” they said. “Wrong size,” they said.
But here’s the thing. I don’t obsess over problems. I obsess over solutions.
So I bought what I needed anyway. I adapted, adjusted, and got every job done. Not 70%, not good enough. 100% finished.
And standing there, tools in hand, I was hit by a deeper truth.
How often in life do we give weight to those words: “You can’t”?
How many dreams, businesses, relationships, or recoveries never see the light of day because we believed them?
Worse still, we begin repeating it to ourselves. That voice becomes internal. It governs decisions. It quietly erodes potential.
Sanomentology exists because I refused to listen.
I had my own struggles. Pain, addiction, anger, and nothing helped. So I built something new. Something that would.
And yes, they said it again.
“You can’t create your own therapy.”
“You can’t heal like that.”
“You can’t succeed that way.”
But I looked back and said:
“Watch me.”
If there’s one lesson in all of this, it’s this: The life you want might be hiding behind the fear of “you can’t.”
What would shift if you stopped listening?
Maybe it’s time to rewrite your internal dialogue. From “I can’t” to
“I will.”
Want to challenge that voice in your head?
Then get in touch, and we can silence it together.