Some time ago, our school took the children to watch Brazil play England at Wembley Stadium. The children were filled with excitement and anticipation, as they clambered out of the coaches ready to watch some of the biggest names in football. As we waited in the car park, I could hear the children yelling excitedly. Thinking they were starting the chanting early, I didn't pay much attention to what they were saying. Then I saw them pointing to one of the apartment blocks surrounding the stadium. An apartment block?! When I asked them what they were doing, they said they could see a well-known YouTuber in the window of the top apartment. The top apartment?! Really, you could just see a silhouette, as I'm talking about the highest floor in the apartment block. When asked why they thought they could see the well-known YouTuber, they replied that it was because they knew he lived in an apartment block near Wembley. It could have been any of the apartment blocks...it could have been any of the apartments! But because they were convinced that the silhouette was the well-known YouTuber, they insisted it was him they could see.
I read a statement the other day that basically said that what we believe affects what we perceive. The children believed that they saw the YouTuber and so that is what they perceived. As crazy as it seems, we do the same. We believe certain things about ourselves, other people or our situations, and that affects what we perceive. That in turn affects how we behave. We might not find ourselves screaming at a silhouette, but we're not far from it. If I believe that I am unable to achieve anything, then that is how I will behave. We have to be mindful of what we believe. We have to mindful of what we give our minds to. That quote that says, if you believe it, you can achieve it, rings true. If we believe great things, what great things can we achieve? 
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