Impossible situations

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Charles R. Swindoll

Every day...

Every single day that you are alive you will be faced with what at first appear impossible situations. (Well, maybe not every single day, but you get the idea!)

Examples:

• It just snowed two feet of snow—I'll never get to work on time.
• My dog ate my homework.
• My homework ate my dog!
• There's a fly in my soup.
• I've been cheated, I've been lonely, I've been misunderstood...
• I can't make money on the Internet.

Well, guess what? None of these are impossible situations if you have the right mindset to think about them differently..

• It just snowed two feet of snow—I'll never get to work on time.

If you were making a good living on the Internet... problem solved!

• My dog ate my homework.

It stinks, true, but you can redo the homework, ask for an extension or even start making a living on the Internet and forget about school (although I don't recommend the last option. You need the basic skills to write a blog.)

• My homework ate my dog!

At this point, you can probably sell your homework and retire because you are likely a genius.

• There's a fly in my soup.

Seriously? Order a new bowl of soup and move on!

• I've been cheated, I've been lonely, I've been misunderstood...

I think I can safely say that most of us have been there. Depression is real. Get help if you need it. But don't let speed bumps in the road stop you from fulfilling your dreams, plans and goals.

We can all feel down in the dumps from time to time. If the feelings continue or get worse or you start to think about hurting yourself or others—get help!

Trust me, I have been there and it isn't pretty, but there is help and there is hope.

Once you are back on track, so to speak, press forward to work on whatever your dream may be.

• I can't make money on the Internet.

Of course, you can't. You just told yourself you couldn't.

As Henry Ford is quoted as saying, “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”

We can be our own worst enemies with our negative thinking.

The theme here is that the negative part of each of these problems is our mindset about them.

Again, a quote from Ford, “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”

Keep your eyes on the goal. When you keep your "eyes on the prize" you are scientifically more apt to see your goal as being closer than if you look at everything else around you as you aim for the goal. (For example, you may get distracted by many things—shiny objects without much value—that will take your eyes off the goal and cause you to feel like reaching it is impossible.)

Those little distractions can keep you from reaching your goals in a timely fashion. They may even keep you from reaching your goals at all.

This Ted Talk is about losing weight, but the theme of keeping our eyes on the goal and the research that has been done on this is useful no matter what your goal is.

I'm going to close this musing with a quote many of us are familiar with.

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”― Audrey Hepburn

Now get out there and do it! Make your impossible situation into a great opportunity!

With 2020 vision,
Karin 😁