There is a series on a food network called Dinner Impossible. The host has an almost impossible challenge to prepare a gourmet meal for sometimes up to 60 plus people. His destination and challenge is given to him with a limited time frame at the beginning of each show.
At both the beginning and at intervals he faces the camera and says "Nothing Is Impossible!" However, as the challenge continues to throw obstacles in his way, he says a few times that he hopes he doesn't fail the mission. At the end of each show he always succeeds
and again says "Nothing Is Impossible".
Isn't this just like our own thinking about things we want to accomplish in our lives. We say to ourselves that nothing is impossible, and the minute situations appear that would deter us from achieving our success we can become discouraged and feel hopeless, and at times want to give up.
Sometimes just as we are about to accomplish our goals someone or something crops up to distract us from our achievement. Whatever we think about expands. So let us think about our goals and not allow negative influences deter us from keeping our eyes on the prize.
I remember a situation several years ago. I was serving on the board of governors for my HOA association. There were several old timers who had served for way too many years and were not open to new ideas. I was approached by our attorney who represented us, with information that our insurance company had defrauded us and other associations, a few years before in our earthquake settlement. Apparently this attorney had recently filed suits for several other home owner associations and won millions for the homeowners.
I took this information to the existing board and asked that we all meet with the lawyer. At first they were all against this. They said we will loose our great insurance company. Yes, the one that defrauded many people! And why open a can of worms! Well, I did get them to finally agree to meet at the attorney's office. We were told he had settled over 10 cases and for each one received settlements in the millions. He assured them that this was credible. Of course he would get fifty percent of the settlement which was standard for his fees.
We all voted and it was four to six a win vote. Our attorney filed the suit and within 2 weeks we had a settlement of over 6 million dollars. After the attorney took his fees, we had over 3 million to totally redo the pool, tennis courts, landscaping, new roofs, garage doors, streets and many other necessary repairs. Plus, there was enough money to give homeowners back the funds they had to procure for individual loans to repair earthquake damage. When I resigned there was over half a million dollars in the reserve account. As well as, the homeowner dues had been greatly reduced as no repairs were needed for years. The property values also went up.
The stodgy limited thinkers who thought it was impossible were proven wrong. I am so grateful to be open and receptive to the thought that Nothing Is Impossible!
