SHIT.. Thats one of the most helpful things I've heard all my life.. thanks for sharing that, going to keep that one on the tip of my fingers..Bell wrote:My dad taught me a lesson when I was a kid. Anytime you get in a situation where can't starts creeping in use your imagination.
Oh fuck, broke my toe and I can't walk. Now imagine that wild dogs are attacking ya. Bet you can run now.
I was trying to climb a tree. Only tree on the farm I couldn't get up. Man, that mother was huge. I couldn't get a good grip to shinny up that thing. Dad comes down and asks what I'm doing. Told him I couldn't climb the tree. Dad looks at it, looks at me and says boy, you've got 30 seconds to get up that tree or I'm gonna pull my belt off and wear ya out. I go DAD! He starts pulling his belt off. I'm sitting 20 feet in the air on the lowest limb before dad got his belt off. I liked to never got down.
Then he told me that when I get an impossible task to imagine a man standing there with a gun in his hand. If I say I can't do it the man points the gun at me and threatens to pull the trigger if I don't. It works. Used it all my life. There's nothing I can't do. I ain't been shot yet because I CAN do it. Over, under, around or through the pain. You CAN do it. If the enemy is chasing ya with weapons firing you can do amazing things. Guys with no legs learn how to run. On their hands if they have to, but they move out.
RLTW
Bell
Eric