Your personal definition of the word “possible” builds the impenetrable walls of the box of your limitations. Once you create your possibility box, you stuff it with your knowledge, creativity, skills, hopes, dreams, and judgments about what you think is possible. When your box seems comfortably full, you start rejecting new thoughts and challenges as unable to fit into your “possibility” definition. What you reject, you define as “impossible.”
Is your life’s mission really impossible, or is your definition of “possible” too small, narrow and/or incomplete? Do you have enough evidence to convict something of truly being impossible? Are you incorrectly defining too many hard, unlikely, difficult, challenging and long-term goals, dreams and hopes as impossible?
Is there possibly some more room in your possibility box? Is it possible that your possibility box doesn’t even exist in the real world? Are you brave enough to put each possibility to the test? Have you allowed your limitations to define how you are living inside of your possibility box?
Is it possible to break free of your impossibilities by simply choosing to accept a broader, more long-term and open-ended definition of one word? Possibly.
What is really possible?
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