Stop telling yourself you “can’t” do something. Just start saying that you just don’t want to. In today’s world, you can teach yourself just about anything you want to, which is something I’ve tried explaining to my soon-to-be 18-year-old daughter.

Don’t believe me? I was raised in a sports family. Our lives revolved around practices, games, traveling teams, and whatever else came up. When we weren’t playing sports, we were going to sporting events. When we didn’t have a sporting event, my brother and I would go play some sport at the park. We dreaded rainy days that meant we had to stay in and play Nintendo. Not that we hated video games, but rather we loved sports that much. It’s something we got from our dad.

Because of a life filled with sports, I wasn’t raised around cars. My parents were the type who’d take their car into Jiffy Lube to get an oil change. Still, I remember watching movies as a kid where there was a car chase and seeing rear-wheel drive cars fishtail around a corner and thinking it was so cool. While that was probably the wrong reason to want to go out and buy a muscle car, that’s exactly what I did when I was 16 years old. I bought a 1992 Calypso Green Mustang 5.0 convertible.