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“excuses are just fears. Handle the fears, and you’ll handle the excuses.”
― Mona Patel, Reframe: Shift the Way You Think, Work, and Innovate

“Here’s my trick: I replace “What if I can’t?” with “What if I don’t?” and I get the push that I need to jump and see what happens. What if I don’t face this fear? How will I feel? Will I be satisfied? I needed to reframe problems as an opportunities to do something great. My family is full of”
― Mona Patel, Reframe: Shift the Way You Think, Work, and Innovate

“But simply asking “What if” questions is not the answer to getting unstuck. You will learn that first you need to reframe your mindset and see problems not as annoying, insurmountable, irrefutable obstacles but as amazing, juicy, creative opportunities. Opportunities that allow you to invent, innovate, create, explore, or whatever else you need to do to solve a problem and stop feeling stuck.”
― Mona Patel, Reframe: Shift the Way You Think, Work, and Innovate

“Here’s my trick: I replace “What if I can’t?” with “What if I don’t?” and I get the push that I need to jump and see what happens. What if I don’t face this fear? How will I feel? Will I be satisfied? I needed to reframe problems as an opportunities to do something great. My family is full of entrepreneurs; they’re big thinkers and doers. They are also my biggest fans. For every excuse I came up with, they came up with a counter excuse. They talked back to my fear and pushed me from “What if I can’t?” toward “What if I don’t?” That day, with their prodding me to “jump” and my brother’s explicit encouragement, the excitement and drive trumped the excuses, and off I went. I was ready.”
― Mona Patel, Reframe: Shift the Way You Think, Work, and Innovate