"I think I can, I think I can . . . "

Today's topic is The Little Engine That Could

Everyone knows this story of the anthropomorphised little blue train engine that pulls a big long train of cars over a mountain after all the bigger and stronger train engines refused.

According to Wikipedia the tale first appeared under the title Thinking One Can in 1906, in Wellsprings for Young People, a Sunday School publication. it's a great moral, believe in yourself and you will suceed, even though the task seems unsurmountable.

This is another Secret principle, believe you can do something and you will be able to, regardless of how impossible it may appear. This ties in a bit with yesterday's Kung Fu Panda and believing in oneself. I think its important that these are used in conjunction. It is easy enough to believe something is possible for other people, but you have to believe YOU can do it.

I'm starting to sound more like a motivational speaker than an historian. :(

I am going to try for more historical facts for the future. My whole point is, that these principles are ingrained in our history, beliefs and supersitions and its not so much of a "secret," it's just a matter of realising what we have all always known.