I hope you are having a fantastic day!

Today, feel empowered to do, achieve and be whatever it is that you’d like. This day is one of a kind. Seize it! Grab it by the horns or the cojones, whichever you’d prefer … just make today yours.

 

My father often recited this poem for my sisters an I when we were young and it has since been a staple in our lives, a constant reminder that anything is possible, just take off your coat and go to it…

It Couldn’t Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done

      But he with a chuckle replied

That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one

      Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin

      On his face. If he worried he hid it.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

      That couldn’t be done, and he did it!

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;

      At least no one ever has done it;”

But he took off his coat and he took off his hat

      And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,

      Without any doubting or quiddit,

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

      That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

      There are thousands to prophesy failure,

There are thousands to point out to you one by one,

      The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,

      Just take off your coat and go to it;

Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing

      That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.

                                                          – Edgar A. Guest

Thank you dad, for always being a crazy inspiration, a go-getter and one of the most unique people anyone has ever met.