Mary Kay Wisdom

Whatever picture you paint in your mind, the mind goes to work to complete it. Someone once said that a man is what he thinks about all day long. Well, if that applies to man, it certainly applies to us. Believe me, if you will think about what it is that you want to do and what you want to become all day long, great things are going to happen in your life. Keep your goals posted on your desk, your refrigerator, your bathroom mirror, and your car visor so that you are reminded all day long of your goal. I want you to throw out all those negative words like “if I can, “I hope,” “maybe,” because this is a feminine thing that we were unfortunately born with. You never hear a man saying, “if I can” and “I hope.” They at least have enough sense to bluff their way through, even if sometimes they are just as scared as we are. I want you to get rid of those insecurities. You are a woman, you can do anything in this world that you want to do, and I want you to replace those words with “I can, I will, I must.”

(Career Conference Speech ’95)