THREE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST!

Earlier this year I attended a conference and the keynote speaker spoke of how to get impossible things to happen. I am someone who does impossible things and really haven’t had a reliable way to see how I did them or how I could repeat the process.

Here is the coaching from “the talk.”

When told, “Oh that’s not possible.”

Look the speaker right in the eye and say, “I understand that this is impossible, but if it were possible what would we do?”

This rocked my world! How often do I believe something I’ve been told, while the current belief is a truth to the speaker, it could be that it simply isn’t so.

I have met the woman who gave this keynote address, and she is a tiny, little human being who has altered what it is to be a woman in China. I think I will listen to her and practice what she preaches.

THREE MONTHS LATER

Sometimes a post needs to simmer and brew and sometimes I need practice time. I’ve been practicing, using the words “..but if it were possible what would we do?”

The impossible is happening. In a world of scarce, over-priced, under-maintained properties, I now have a property within a half mile of where I was born. In a world with no labor, my house is being renovated. In a world of COVID, I am well and have not had, nor will I have, the dread disease. In a world that expects nothing of anyone beyond a certain age, I am thriving and growing like a three-year-old.

“I understand this is impossible, but if it were possible, what would we do?”