One yetzer hara that come to a person is when someone says, "I can't. It is too hard." But really it isn't too hard. If you try, you can succeed.
Reb Leibel Kutner (a renowned elderly Gerrer Chasid who had lived through the holocaust) tells that the Nazis had him do backbreaking work in a large factory. One day, the most important machine in the workplace broke, and the workers rejoiced. There was no work to be done if that machine wasn't functioning.
When the Nazi officer in charge arrived and saw them rejoicing. Reb Leib told the officer that he was returning to his barracks because there was no work for them to do. The officer, the rasha, shouted, "You aren't going anywhere! You will continue to work."
Reb Leib said, "How can we work? The machine is broken. I can't fix this large machine by myself."
The rasha replied, "You are a Jew. You can!" He was saying, "Don’t give excuses. You are a Jew, and a Jew can do anything he puts his heart and mind to."
Indeed, Reb Leib opened the machine and succeeded in fixing it.
Reb Leib would say, "Everyone has excuses, why they can't wake up in the morning, why they can't learn, why they can't overcome the yetzer hara. However, even this rasha understood that a Jew can – if he just wants to. If he says he can't, he doesn't want to. Because if he wants, he will find a way."
