When people say they can’t do something, it is almost guaranteed they simply don’t want to do it. They are physically capable, they are simply not willing.

If I asked you to be a vegetarian for a year, you would say I can’t go without meat for a whole year. I would then ask,

“How do you know, have you tried it?”

You probably have not, you just are not willing to do it. If I ask you to run 10 400 meter sprints, you would say, “I can’t”.

I would say “Why not?”

I didn’t say you had to run them all under a certain time, and I didn’t even say you had to be done in an hour, but because you are not willing to push yourself, test yourself, find out what you are really made of, the easy answer is “I Can’t”.

The things you don’t want to do are almost certainly the things that will make you better, help you lose weight, live longer, sleep better, get stronger, and so on.

The things you can’t do are things you have worked hard to do, but just seem to come up a little short, but you tried, and hopefully you still are.

For example, I worked my butt off when I played to run faster, throw harder, and hit for a higher average. I ran sprints on top of sprints, then I ran stairs. I worked out hard, played long toss, took a million swings, and even skipped parties in which I knew my friends would be at, because I had things I had to work on, because I truly wanted to know what I could and couldn’t do.

After all that my list of “I can’t” is this:

I can’t throw 91
I can’t run a 6.6 sixty
I can’t dunk a basketball two handed (or at all anymore)
There are more, but I don’t want to continue writing all of them, I could, I just choose not to.

What is it that you cannot truly do, and what is it that you do not want to put the work in to achieve. Understanding the difference will help you understand what it is that you actually want to do with your life.