Change It To I'm Possible

"Nothing is impossible; there are ways which lead to everything; and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means." - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

We all have a tendency to start each Monday morning believing the work week ahead is full of impossible tasks. We wonder if we'll ever be able to make it all the way to Friday. The feeling that success is impossible weighs us down before we even start.

A mountain of worry and concern stands in front of us.

Yet Friday appears and a sigh of "thank God its Friday" beckons across the land. We actually find we were able to make it through the week. Many of those tasks we worried about were accomplished with little or no problems.

A successful week completed and all of the worry washed away.

What if we started the week believing nothing was impossible? You already prove it week after week when Friday arrives and your accomplishments have successfully been attained. The mountain was ascended and nothing fell over the cliff.

Start the week without burden of worry, can greater success be yours?

Believing in the impossible frees us from expending energy consumed by worry and self-doubt. To believe early allows you to focus sooner on the tasks in front of you. Believe in the impossible and make it possible.

Change Impossible to I'm Possible.

Stay inspired my friends.

Possible Possibility

"If you stay in what was, you will never get to what is." -Kay Weeks

Are you afraid of change in your life? Does the idea of altering the patterns of your life send anxiety flowing through your veins?

But what if you want to get from point A to point B in your life?

It will take change and there is really no getting around that. In fact, life is always in a state of change. The clock is marking the changing of time. The earth is spinning and tilting to change the seasons. The harbinger of age is changing our physical being. Yes, change happens and so we must first get over it, adapt and be willing to allow change to transform us.

The possibilities are endless on what we can do with change in our life. Yet we will never see those possibilities if we stay stuck in the sameness of our lives. You may tell yourself that you have nothing to offer, no talent, or no ability to grab hold of possibility. I say you are wrong and that we each have talents (large or small) that can enable us to do great things. You simply have to be willing to take charge of change and use it to your benefit.

In an article by Dr. Pamela Gerloff,PHD in Human Development, she writes about how we can shift our thinking of possibility by using change. It is referred to as the Possibility Paradigm and talks about how we should view possibility differently. When we do so, it can be used to better our lives and to achieve more.

All of us know of the "Possibility Principle" in which all things are possible. This means absolutely anything, no exceptions, no "everything, but" possibilities, all is possible. The idea of all things possible can be hard to grasp when we are trained from an early age to measure and accept the bounds of what we can and can not do. All of our lives we are told of limits and of what has or has not worked already.

The "Possibility Paradigm" tries to get you to debunk those thoughts.

This is where Dr. Gerloff wants you to consider the "Possibility Paradigm" as a way of helping you achieve what might be considered impossible. There are two parts which are; Part A: If something isn't possible from within your paradigm, change your paradigm. And Part B: Keep changing paradigms until you find one from which that thing is possible. I look to the example of technology and the smart devices we use each and every day.

We have laptops, desktops, phones, computers, and a host of other things that could be very utilitarian in nature. For many years they were, meaning, these devices did the one single job they were intended to do. Then came along one of the more famous innovators that decided to change the paradigm of possibility in how these devices are designed and used.

Steve Jobs decided to design these devices from an artistic and personal use perspective. You could say he changed design of these devices from the outside in versus inside out. You can read more about this in Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different to see why thinking different can make a huge change in your possibility.

If you can shift your view of possibility. If you can change the way you look at possibility. If you allow change to be a positive force in your life, than all things truly are possible. Take your life towards a more positive way of living, make possibility possible in everything that you do.

And stay inspired my friends.

I'm Possible

"It always seems impossible until its done." ~Nelson Mandela

What do three thousand bottles of water, three thousand bags of chips, three thousand buns and three thousand hotdogs have to do with the impossible?

Less then two weeks ago, the church my wife and I attend were asked to do do what seemed by many impossible. A decade old event on the city square in Lawrenceville, Georgia provided a safe and fun family event to celebrate Halloween. At the 'last minute' the event was in jeopardy and our church was asked if we could pull it off.

Fearless as we tend to be, the answer was a resounding yes. And then for a few moments you feel like the dog that finally caught the car. What are we going to do now?

But the impossible is only impossible if you let it be. We jumped to it and a lot of great people pulled off an amazing event. In pulling off that amazing event, thousands of families were impacted with a touch of goodness. Why yes, everything was free to these families, the food, the water, the juice drinks, the chips, and yes lots of candy.

Each of us can accomplish so much we overcome the fear of the impossible. We each can step forward and face it head on and achieve something greater. For us it was impacting a community. For you, it can be as simple as impacting just one person.

Don't fear the impossible in your life. Don't let others convince you that things are impossible. Take the word impossible and turn it into "I'm Possible."