2007-12-31T22:16:56-08:00 7420 4761 6378 1 2008-01-02T20:22:53-08:00 2007-12-31T22:16:56-08:00 <p>I spoke on the Law of Attraction at Toastmasters recently. I could have called the speech “What’s Impossible?”… because for some reason that is where my focus ended up. As I was working on the speech it really hit home with me just how relative “impossible” really is.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Do you know that at one time it was <span style="font-style: italic;">impossible</span> to go around the world? The world was believed to be flat and there was a fear that one could fall off! We laugh now, at this silliness, but at the time this was the conventional wisdom.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the not so distant past it was <span style="font-style: italic;">impossible</span> to fly, now not only do we have a multitude of daily flights all over the globe… we have gone a step beyond regular flight and sent man into <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected">outer space</span>, to the moon, another <span style="font-style: italic;">impossibility</span>!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then there is the little matter of the 4 minute mile, a record that was <span style="font-style: italic;">impossible </span>to break. Roger Bannister, a 25 year old British medical student broke the record on May 6<span class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span>, 1954 with a 3 minute 59.4 second time. Then less than 6 weeks later Australian runner John <span class="blsp-spelling-error">Landy</span> ran even faster with a 3 minute 57.9 second time and there have many others…the current record is now held by Moroccan runner <span class="blsp-spelling-error">Hicham</span> El <span class="blsp-spelling-error">Guerrouj</span> at 3min 43.13 seconds in Rome, Italy in 1999. Why is it that no one ever ran this fast but once the record was broken by one person many others were able to break it? Maybe because it was now <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected">perceived</span> as possible!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I once worked for a company that had managers that told their salespeople that if they hadn’t “tracked” in their sales at a certain rate that they would <span style="font-style: italic;">never</span> reach their goal! They began managing with negativity and fear and now they keep missing goals and they don’t understand why. Another company I recently did some contracting for has a different approach.&nbsp; They&nbsp; tell their reps to do their best the goals will happen... and they do!&nbsp; It’s in the same economic climate, and the goals are still steep… the difference is the attitude and the energy it creates!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The very best way to reach a goal is to focus on the goal and see yourself reaching it! Take inspired action and a positive energy will develop and the universe will conspire in your favor to enable you to reach your goal! Oh, and if you have any doubts or limiting beliefs about what’s possible… read this post! Remember possible or impossible it’s all relative!&nbsp; Sometimes a Life Coach is helpful also.&nbsp; If you'd like more information on what a coach can do to help you reach your goals contact me.&nbsp; You may decide, as I did, that coaching is the option that will pay for itself&nbsp; several times over! </p> 17068 4761 1 7420 1 2008-01-02T20:24:19-08:00