“It’s only impossible until it’s done,” my personal trainer recently said to me, and in that statement he pretty much summed up the essence of my next book.
Pioneers in possibility stay with their vision, no matter how uncertain, unlikely or unsupported it might seem. They hold the vision until it becomes reality… or die trying. A pioneer, by definition, is someone who ventures into the unknown. A powerful creator is someone who makes connections other people cannot or do not make.
Here’s an excerpt from my book that talks about creating versus problem solving … two entirely different things.
Let’s face it, parts of the world are troubled, and parts of our own lives are a big, hot mess. However, focusing on fixing problems isn’t solving them; we’re simply mitigating the chaos and pain until the problem returns.
“Problem solving is taking action to have something go away—the problem. Creating is taking action to have something come into being—the creation,” says Robert Fritz, author of The Path of Least Resistance. If you eliminate the problem, the problem is now absent. Yet you still haven’t created a result you actually want. At best, problem solving can bring temporary relief from a specific situation, but it seldom leads to final success.
So what will bring forth success—both personal and global? I suggest a very different approach. If we consciously choose to focus on creating the results we envision, rather than avoiding the reality that exists, new results will show up, both in our own personal world and the physical world around us. “When people are united with their real power—the power to create what they want to create—they always choose what is highest in humanity,” says Fritz.
Your vision may not involve “changing the world,” and that’s just fine, but to manifest any vision, big or small, compelling results depend on the level of consciousness and the orientation—soul-driven or ego-driven—you are coming from.
Today, many people believe that as individuals we don’t have the power to create the results we truly want—because we see them as extraordinary and impossible. Yet by limiting ourselves to only what we perceive as possible or reasonable, the best we can do is compromise—and this is not true success. “
If there’s one key to creating the impossible, it’s that true visionary leaders do not compromise. Why? Because as Robert Fritz reminds us: “The human spirit does not invest itself in compromise.”
What will you choose to create without compromise? Remember, it’s only impossible until it’s done.
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