Because an impossible goal is exactly that, impossible, you can’t lose.
It’s liberating in a counter-intuitive way.
Conventional goals have their place, and I’ve used them plenty in my life. Most of us come up with conventional goals, and feel tremendous pressure to complete them, or feel bad when we don’t. Or if we come up short, we still accomplished more in that failure than we would have had we not tried. This is a completely successful and valid strategy.
The walls of my office are filled with trophies of past goals of mine. My accomplishments. Of the things I wanted, and achieved (Glance around when you see me on camera).
An impossible goal, when done properly (and isn’t actually a “probable goal“), has no actual path to victory, because it’s impossible. It’s a completely different paradigm.
Because it’s impossible, and can’t be accomplished, it no longer is a goal to get through, and becomes a place to come from.
Who do you need to be, to be a person that this impossible goal would be possible?
You’re watching me do it right now. Because I’ve taken on my own impossible goal (of winning a Nobel Peace Prize for solving climate change), it has changed how I think, behave, and act. It has inspired new short-term projects, created connections where none existed previously, and a whole lot of inspiration. It’s also allowing me to teach others on how to create impossible goals.
And because it’s impossible no one can come up to me and ask “Why haven’t you solved climate change yet?” What I CAN tell you is what’s changed already in my life.
My life has altered, and over the remainder of my life I will be part of this mission, in ways I can’t predict or imagine. That’s exciting and liberating.
On Monday September 25th I’m going to teach all I know on creating impossible goals and work with people live on the call to help them draw out what’s truly impossible for them. And then life will never be the same.
Will you be one of them?
