How many times has someone said to you, “That’s not possible,” or “You can’t do that,” or “It will never happen”?<\/p>\n
Well, what if you ignored the naysayers and just did what you wanted to do anyhow?<\/p>\n
This past week I had numerous personal experiences that reminded me, once and for all, that there’s no such thing as impossible… and we can accomplish a lot more than we think.<\/p>\n
To set the stage, Barry and I were interviewed last week by Stacy Hopkins for her Inside Success Series<\/strong><\/em> of teleseminars. She asked us each what our favorite or most powerful moments were from the interviews we did for Masters of the Secret<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, and I told about Jack Canfield’s E+R=O formula: Event + Reaction = Outcome.<\/p>\n So you can’t control the event (whatever it is that happened in your life), but you can control your reaction to it… and that reaction to the event determines the outcome.<\/p>\n = = = = = = =<\/p>\n Barry talked about some of the lessons he learned from doing the interviews, but after the call we continued the conversation; and he brought up one of his favorite stories from Joe Vitale, which was first related to his subscribers in an email with the subject line, “Impossible? I’m not sure ANYTHING is impossible<\/em>.”<\/p>\n And I have to agree.<\/p>\n The story goes that Joe was trying to get rid of scorpions in his house, and he decided to complete this task by using an ultrasonic device designed to repel bugs. Well, you can imagine the reactions he got to that event. Even the manufacturer said, “No way, no way, will our device ever, ever work on scorpions.”<\/p>\n But Joe’s reaction was different.<\/p>\n He decided to go ahead and do what his instincts told him, and discovered that the scorpions were repelled by the device just as he’d hoped; or rather, just as he’d known.<\/p>\n Hey, it’s not easy to repel a scorpion; as a born-and-bred Scorpio, I should know! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n But Joe believed in the possible, and went ahead with it.<\/p>\n Now here’s where it gets interesting; within 48 hours after having that conversation, Barry and I experienced three instances of overcoming the “impossible” ourselves.<\/p>\n First, we have wanted to walk our cat, Mercury<\/a>, in the park for some time (our second cat, Jupiter<\/a>, is a little too young still, but she’ll get her day for breaking the rules too).<\/p>\n The first few times Mercury had a leash slapped on her, she reacted predictably to the event: rolling over on her back and trying to bat and chew the leash off. It didn’t look promising, and predictably, everyone we told said, “You can’t do that. You can’t walk a cat.”<\/p>\n Well, we reacted to that in defiance, and went ahead and took Mercury to the park anyhow. Her little tiger-striped leash clipped to her rainbow collar, she rode in my arms until we reached a flat spot by the river, then let her walk around.<\/p>\n Yup… you guessed it. We walked our cat on the leash.<\/p>\n Okay, it was a little game of tug-of-war to begin with, but by the end she was trotting along like a little puppy as I walked ahead, and Barry walked beside her holding the leash.<\/p>\n Secondly, we’ve been having problems with the internet connection… or rather, I’ve been having problems with my connection, because the modem and router are located in Barry’s office, and my office is at the other end of the condo. You would think the wi-fi signal would have no problem reaching that far, but generally I’ve been getting two bars of signal strength while Barry gets five.<\/p>\n For the average computer user, perhaps not a problem; but since we work on the internet, and I’m the one who edits and uploads all the audios, a swift connection is required.<\/p>\n We looked into getting a second modem, but that would mean a separate account; so instead we turned to the possibility of a range expander.<\/p>\n “You can’t do that,” everybody told us. “It will never work. Just get a long ethernet cable and string it along the hallway.”<\/p>\n Well, we were determined to do it our way, and got a range expander. But then… uh-oh, it kind of looked like everyone was right. We plugged it in ten feet from my desk, and I still had only two bars of signal strength.<\/p>\n Barry looked at that and said, “there’s nothing but possibilities when I’m around.”<\/p>\n After an hour on the phone with Cisco support staff, we had a working range expander… and I have five bars of wi-fi signal strength!<\/p>\n Impossible? Bah, humbug!<\/p>\n So far the examples I’ve given you have been about other people saying something was impossible, and learning not to listen to the naysayers.<\/p>\n But what about when we’re our own worst critics? When we think our abilities are limited, and that something we ourselves want to do is impossible?<\/p>\n Saturday night, Barry and I went swimming at the local health club. After logging a few laps, he asked me how far I could swim underwater.<\/p>\n “Me? Not far… maybe a few feet,” I said. I’m a pretty good swimmer — at one point I had my lifeguard certification — but I’ve always like to stay near the surface, where the air is. Being underwater has never been my thing.<\/p>\n “I like to dive down, like I’m looking at fish… then I can usually stay under longer than I think I should be able to,” said Barry. “Want to see who can go the furthest?”<\/p>\n I gave him that look, and he said, “It’s not a competition.”<\/p>\n Well… ummm… since it wasn’t a competition…<\/p>\n “Okay, you go first,” I told him.<\/p>\n Barry went pretty far, and I knew there was no way I could even come close. He had gone almost the whole pool length before coming up for a breath.<\/p>\n Well, at least it wasn’t a competition… so I took a breath and started swimming underwater, watching the line on the bottom of the pool slowly inch by.<\/p>\n When I couldn’t hold my breath any longer, I started letting out my air bubbles slowly, and moving upwards towards the surface.<\/p>\n Then I saw Barry’s legs, where he was standing on the bottom of the pool, marking how far he had gone. And I kept going!<\/p>\n I only got a few inches past where he had gone… but it was farther than I had ever swam underwater in my life, and farther than I ever imagined I could go.<\/p>\n What that said to me was, “don’t judge, don’t limit… just do your best.” And sometimes your best will be better than you ever thought possible.<\/p>\n Impossible? Naw!<\/p>\n Nothing’s impossible<\/em>.<\/p>\n P.S.<\/strong>\u00a0 If you want to cultivate your own possibility-oriented mindset, and be unstoppable in everything you do, keep a look-out for a special opportunity we’ll have coming up for you in about a week.<\/p>\n That’s the event… your reaction to it will determine your outcome. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How many times has someone said to you, “That’s not possible,” or “You can’t do that,” or “It will never happen”? Well, what if you ignored the naysayers and just did what you wanted to do anyhow? 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