Redefining What's Possible

This morning, I got a great text from a good friend.  It read:

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself
from what you truly want and all that's left is a compromise." - Robert Fritz

It's so easy to limit your possibilities, I mean there are so many reasons to do so: that thing your mom said one time, what's in the media, what others think and on and on. 

But at what cost?

The cost is huge: you feel small, you are filled with 'buts' and 'I can'ts' and 'what ifs', you are constantly looking around what others are thinking, and worst of all, that thing you really want, it goes unfulfilled.

We all hear the stories about the Wright Brothers, the Steve Jobs, the Thomas Edison's of the world - how they overcame overwhelming adversity to triumph over the impossible.  And we keep them out there, far away from us, in a separate box labeled 'Different'. As if they're different than us, as if they must have some special genetic mutation or unexplainable attribute that made them able to accomplish what was both impossible and unreasonable.

And, they are no different than you.  They are no diffrent than me.  They are no different than us.

Except in one way: they continue to take action into their 'im'possibility until everyone can see it's possibility (please note, that although these innovators do get caught up in 'is it possible', they don't get stopped there, and never see it as impossible for long).

As I read the words of Robert Fritz above, I am reminded that the costs of not taking action towards the dream I truly want are far worse than the potential failures along the way.  My dream unfulfilled because of fear and inaction and not trying is so much more painful than failing having given my all, putting everything on the line, and going for it in all areas of my life.

So, today, in front of all my subscribers I declare that I'm just going to go for things from now on, to go full-out with the intention of winning every game I play on and aoff the court.  And should I lose, I declare I will hold my head up high and know that I at least played the game, I didn't comporomise and I was fully connnected to what I truly wanted the whole time.

Then I will go back to the drawing board and try again.

Here's to you doing the same,

Kara
www.performancetolife.com