Nothing is impossible. Say that slowly, because you may have been trained to soften it.
I am not suggesting you pretend limits do not exist. I am reminding you that most of what stops people was never a wall in the first place. It was a conclusion they accepted before they tested it. The moment you say I can do anything, you stop negotiating with doubt and start asking better questions. How? Who can help? What is the first move?
Obstacles are real, but they are also instructions. They show you exactly where the growth is. When you see an obstacle, do not stop at it and study it like a monument. See it clearly, size it up, and then leap over it. Some leaps are physical. Most are a decision made in a single moment, the choice to keep moving when quitting would be easier.
You have already done hard things. You have learned skills that once intimidated you, walked through seasons you were not sure you would survive, and become someone your younger self would respect. That history is evidence. The next impossible thing is only impossible until it meets the person you have become.
So watch your language this week. Every I cannot is a door closed by your own hand. Try replacing it with I have not figured out how yet. That one word, yet, changes everything, because it leaves the future open.
Nothing is impossible. See the obstacles. Leap over them. And remind yourself often that the ability in you is greater than the barrier in front of you.
#PatrickTCooper #BeEncouraged
