“You can’t win a race just by running,” my mother told me when i was little. “You have to talk to yourself.” “Huh?” i had asked. “You have to talk to yourself when you are running and tell yourself you can win.” It had become a habit of sorts. Anytime i am faced with something difficult or almost impossible, i chant. Over the years i have developed different kinds of chants, but i always fall back on the old one “i can, i can, yes, i can.”
