I cannot lose this weight. It is just impossible! Impossible, by its very definition, means something is unable to be done, performed or effected. There is a sense of finality when one hears the word impossible, yet there are numerous examples of seemingly impossible things that somehow became possible. Maybe the distance between the impossible and the possible isn’t that far. In fact, it only takes a little space between the “m” and the “p” to turn impossible into “I’m possible”.

Often, I watch fellow members give up on challenges when just a little more time and effort would turn the seemingly impossible into the possible. I wonder if we have become so impatient in today’s society that we are more likely to turn to something new than put in the extra time and effort it takes to complete that which we started. In truth, the space between the old and the new is often greater than the space between the “m” and “p”. How do we recognize the most critical step between success and failure is that space between the “m” and the “p”? How do we move from impossible to “I’m possible”?

Possibility is truly the space between impossible and possible. In fact, impossible can only exist when you are willing to give up possibility as an option. We need to do a better job of encouraging each other to see possibility, the space between the m and the p, as the pathway to all that is possible.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
Norman Vincent Peale

I Care, Barb