Possibilities Episode 10 Shownotes

Welcome my lovely listeners and welcome

to this journey from a distracted
confused and lost you vector clarity you
dreams and your passions to live a life
of purpose and impact I know those are
big words but it’s my sincere belief
that we are all on the same path each
path is unique but we’re all striving
towards the same and I want to help you
with this possibility this is not the
same as reality but if I believe in the
possibility your reality is going to be
severely curtailed we must avoid the
temptation to begin with an analysis of
what’s easy or what’s probable or even
likely we can only do our work justice
by examining what’s possible and then
deciding if we care enough to pursue it
this is from Seth Godin’s book which I
read regularly and he’s a person whose
wisdom I deeply admire these three lines
sum up so wonderfully everything magical
surrounding this one word possibility
how often do we really explore what’s
possible versus just what’s easy
comfortable and what we already know how
to do when I think back I see I made
many mistakes but it’s not the mistakes
that I regret or the bad decisions that
I made what I regret most is not having
taken more risks especially with
important parts of my life I’ve often
traveled the safest road the one that
most likely would get me to the desired
destination and you know what the road
that appeared the safest was often hard
as heck because I didn’t really consider
everything involved I didn’t see certain
things coming you never do I didn’t plan
on my bad judgment or life’s unique
turns and twists I made a decision at
that moment with the information
I had at hand and what was most familiar
and most comfortable one and then I just
kind of served along not a ton of
excitement about something that’s easy
right doesn’t really get your heart rate
up or the juices flowing you’re just
happy that you’re safe what luck you had
to get such a clear path unfolded that
didn’t involve a ton of fodder and sweat
or so you think the effort that did come
with picking the easy road was trying to
maintain at all as soon as things became
shaky I spent an incredible amount of
time trying to keep it stable
relationships I should have never
entered I tried to maintain him jobs I
knew that were wrong for me I battled
with them food I shouldn’t have eaten
and drinks I had too many of parties I
should have avoided it was all easy
right there in the moment it was in
front of me I didn’t need to think a lot
it was comfortable and today I wish I
could turn life back and see what would
have happened because the few times I
took a chance with life things worked
out surprisingly smoothly everything I
thought was going to be difficult was a
breeze yes I’m exaggerating but you know
what it is when you take a risk you’re
just a bit more nervous and therefore
you more alert you pay attention you
focus you make more calculated decisions
you celebrate your small wins and he
corrects small failures immediately
you’re on track and your assistant to
distraction and there’s a thrill to it
all mixed with some fear but it keeps
you going it keeps you motivated and it
makes you creative it makes you
resistant to the small crap that creeps
up along trying to distract you and
guess what in the end you come out much
stronger especially if you failed you’ll
learn so much more and you’re more proud
of a risky goal accomplished than an
easy target met workplaces and the
internet are full of motivational quotes
on possibility our friends they’re
always encouraging but our mind
often leads us back to the familiar than
known because it hates the unknown the
unknown causes stress and so we stay we
stay on our path of familiarity we stay
with the job we hate if the partner that
mistreats us with the food and the
drinks that make us feel bad think again
think beyond the boundaries of your own
imagination the entire world is
accessible to your right at this moment
it’s amazing but today right now you
could literally you could start a
business fly across the world enroll in
classes learn a new language you could
apply to 20 jobs right now you can
connect with new people all at your
fingertips so just stop for a minute and
think explore all the possibilities
think of every imaginable answer to your
questions solutions to your problems not
just the one that immediately comes to
mind all of them no matter how crazy
they are don’t worry about feasibility
or reason write them all down and then
read your list which one gets your heart
rate up which one makes you smile and
call up your best friend to share it
which one helps you see a better life
for yourself the fulfillment of a dream
the answer to a current problem the
answer to your pain your misfortune the
unknown is scary but only if you allow
it to be asked what if and then try
possibility this is not the same as
reality but if I would believe in the
possibility your reality is going to be
severely curtailed we must avoid the
temptation to begin with an analysis of
what’s easy or what’s probable or even
likely we can only do our work just to
spy examining what’s possible and then
deciding if we care enough to pursue it
I encourage you to explore your
possibilities with much love for me here
in California
to you out into this world I wish you
all the best and I talk to you soon