Do you know that at one time it was impossible 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.
In the not so distant past it was impossible 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 outer space, to the moon, another impossibility!
Then there is the little matter of the 4 minute mile, a record that was impossible to break. Roger Bannister, a 25 year old British medical student broke the record on May 6th, 1954 with a 3 minute 59.4 second time. Then less than 6 weeks later Australian runner John Landy 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 Hicham El Guerrouj 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 perceived as possible!
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 never reach their goal! They began managing with negativity and fear and now they keep missing goals and they don't understand why. The company I currently work for tells us to do our best and we will reach our goals... and guess what -- we do! It's in the same economic climate, and the goals are still steep... the difference is the attitude and the energy it creates!
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!
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