Be Impossible

Hey everyone, my name is Matt, and I’m your Impossible Health Coach. My mission is to help you overcome challenges in your life and Be Impossible! Every other Friday, you can join me on this forum to find high-level content related to health and wellness and Doing the Impossible. For this post, I dive a little deeper into the Be Impossible mindset, and how you can incorporate it into your life. Thank you all for tuning in, I hope you enjoy this content, and please comment below or reach out to me directly here if you have any questions regarding your Impossible Goals!

“It’s kind of fun to do the Impossible.” - Walt Disney

It was May of 2013, and I stood in front of a crowd of over one thousand people waiting as I crutched up to the podium on the stage. The room was filled with complete and utter silence. I was three months into my chemotherapy treatments and scheduled to receive an amputation of my right leg in just two weeks. Yet, here I was, High School Graduation; it seemed a lot less significant now, given what I had been through the past few months. Three rounds of chemo made graduating High School seem like a stroll through a park on a beautiful summer day. Nevertheless, I stared out at the faces of the crowd, hoping to impart some form of wisdom or inspiration. Though young and inexperienced as I was, I desperately wanted to bring good of my suffering and pain, and this was my opportunity. I adjusted the microphone, cleared my throat, and began to speak.

The words I said were not nearly as important as the message they contained. It was an idea that had been stirring in my heart for the previous few months, Be Impossible. I knew cancer and everything that came with it was not something I was strong enough to beat as the person who had started this journey, and as I said in my speech, “When faced with the Impossible, you must Become Impossible, and you will Do the Impossible.”

It’s a bit of an abstract construct to approach at face value, and it goes a bit deeper than the mere “never quit, no pain no gain” mindset. To truly Be Impossible, we have to change who we are, who we identify ourselves as, at our core. We must become a version of ourselves that is physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually equipped to handle the challenges placed before us which the former version of ourselves was not capable of conquering.

Now, this does not mean that we need to become an entirely new person with a new set of values, morals, and interests every couple months, although there may be times in a person’s life where they may find that such a change is necessary. Rather, I like to think of this continual changing as a process of building and fortifying as opposed to demolition and construction. We don’t necessarily need to forsake our current self in its entirety and start anew, we just need to reflect, andalyze, and determine what about ourselves currently is keeping us from achieving our goals, from living our Impossible Life.

An analogy I often give to people is that of owning a house. The standard process is you find a house, take out a mortgage, and finance it for maybe 30 years. Over that period of time, that house will not stay the exact same as it was when you bought it. You have two options: continually renovate and improve your house, or let your house age, wear down, and start to deteriorate. If you choose the path of continually improving your house, you are going to have to change your house into a different version of itself. This doesn’t mean you bring in some heavy equipment, tear down the entire house, and build a new house every time you want to update your bathroom. Rather, we leave the house as a whole standing, but we tear down the bathroom, take out the old pipes, rip down the wallpaper with dancing cows playing the fiddle (although, I wouldn’t care to bring that back in style), and lay down new flooring, paint the walls, install new fixtures. We do this, one room at a time over 30 years, and by the time we have fully purchased our house, it is completely unrecognizable to what it was when we first made the purchase. It is a representation of everything we dreamed of and desired, and has been fully customized to our likes and needs.

This is what we need to do with ourselves. Just as we can work to build a house totally suited to our wants and needs, we can do the same with ourselves. That is Be Impossible. Taking one journey at a time to change ourselves, little by little, into a more optimal version capable of overcoming greater and great challenges with an increased capacity to do good.

It is important that we give full creedence to the idea of actually changing ourselves, as this is the most essential aspect; without it, the whole idea collapses. If we ever hope to overcome our challenges, we must become a person that can easily do so. If you are a person who overeats (something I have struggled with myself), you will always do so as long as you see yourself as someone who overeats, is never full, and has a genetic predisposition to such behavior. If you are a person that struggles with exercising, you will always do so as long as you see yourself as someone who is weak, and incapable of lifting heavy weights or sprinting. This can be applied to any situation, and it doesn’t mean that nothing is impossible, rather that our capacity to grow and change ourselves into better and better versions of ourselves is limitless. There is always another Impossible version of ourselves waiting out there for us to bring it to fruition.

It is also important to recognize that this process or lack thereof does not, in and of itself, make us a good or bad person. To bring it back to the house analogy, there are plenty of people who do bad things that live in mansions, and there are plenty of people who live in run down, deteriorating houses that do absolute amazing acts of kindness every single day that we may never realize. The Be Impossible mindset, however, does increase our capacity to do good. If your house has a spare bedroom, that allows you to house guests and provide them with refuge; if you have a stove and a fridge, that allows you to provide them with food and nourishment; if you have a home gym, that allows you to host group training sessions where you can motivate those around you to build better versions of themselves. Similarly, if you work continually to become a better version of yourself, to Be Impossible, you will have an increased capacity to help those around you follow suit. The Be Impossible mindset can be a powerful way of life to affect positive change in your life, but it can also, and more importantly allow you to affect maximum positive change in the lives of those around you.

Now, it is certainly one thing to understand the Be Impossible mindset and quite another to implement it in practice, and that’s where I come in. Just as in your home, you may not have all the tools or materials to fully remodel your kitchen, and may have to hire a contractor, you may not have the skills or resources to adopt the Be Impossible mindset fully into your life without a little help or guidance. I specialize in Doing the Impossible and bringing this mindset into my own life, and I can help you do the same. Through a focus on the Four Pillars of Health, I can help you fully adopt the Be Impossible mindset and bring true, effective, lasting change to your life that will help you to meet your Impossible Goals.

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Thank you again for reading, have a fantastic weekend, comment below if you have any thoughts or questions, share this article with family and friends, and as always…

BE IMPOSSIBLE!

Best,

Matt