The Commonwealth Bank in Australia is running an advertising campaign at the moment which features the following poem, titled "an Ode to Can".

For me, this poem really resonates so well as I travel along this journey to a healthier lifestyle - so many things that I thought that I couldn't do are now possible - just a shift of attitude and and a good dose of self belief was needed.

I hope you enjoy reading this....

There's a four lettered word
As offensive as any
It holds back the few
Puts a stop to the many.

You can't climb that mountain
You can't cross the sea
You can't become anything you want to be.

He can't hit a century
They can't find a cure.
She can't think about leaving
or searching for more.

Because can't is a word with a habit of stopping
The ebb and flow of ideas
It keeps dropping itself where we know
in our hearts it's not needed
And saying "don't go"
when we could have succeeded.

But those four little letters
That end with a T
They can change in an instant
When shortened to three.

We can take off the T
We can do it today
We can move forward not back
We can find our own way.

We can build we can run
We can follow the sun
We can push we can pull
We can say I'm someone
Who refuses to believe
That life can't be better
With the removal of one
Insignificant letter

What is this little letter 'T' holding you back from?

YOU CAN DO IT!!!