“Beliefs change the math about what is possible and probable,”– Shawn Achor
In October 1903, the New York Times declared that it would take from one million to 10 million years for men to build a machine that could fly. They interviewed notable engineers, scientists and others who had worked and reworked the formulas only to conclude that such a feat was simply not possible.
Exactly 69 days later, Orville and Wilbur Wright took off in the first engine-powered, heavier-than-air machine they called the Wright Flyer.
And if that impossible thing suddenly became possible, it’s worth examining other impossibilities we’ve long believed.
We live in an exciting, rapidly-changing time. The old, confining reality is dissolving before our very eyes. And the more we open ourselves to stories and beliefs that used to be impossible, that don’t fit into old boxes anymore, the bigger our playground becomes.
The model we’ve invested in for the last several thousand years is a tiny compression of the inconceivably vast and grand reality in which we live. It’s a tiny sliver of the full spectrum of potentiality.
And I, for one, refuse to invest any more energy in anything someone else deemed impossible.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
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Hello Pam. Can you imagine the broad smile that came upon my face as I read your delightful, and insightful, post? I bet you can!
I hope you won’t mind, but I’d like to add another few words of inspiration, for you and your readers, from “The Law and The Promise,” by Neville Goddard: “Nothing stands between man [woman] and the fulfillment of his dreams but facts. And facts are the creations of imagining. If man changes his imagining, he will changes the facts.”
Blessings! 🙏🏻🧡
Arthur,
I love this Neville quote. He has been part of my Life for years! I am truly grateful for his work he has so lovingly shared.
Thank you.
Kate
Me, too!!! Truly grateful for Neville.
Thank you for this perfect quote.
Thank you Pam. I love seeing you in my inbox! You are one of my favorite peeps. Your books have changed my Life in so many wonderful ways and continue to do so.
In gratitude,
Kate in Carmel
What a nice thing to hear. Thank you!!!
There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you perceive it to be. Don’t like your reality. Change your perception.
Absolutely, my friend!!!
Which reminds me of the other one I used to throw at my hubby – if you believe you can or you believe you can’t, you’re right. Every so often, he would throw it back to me!!
Yea, Taz used to say things like that to me–do you really want to hang on to that thought, she’d say.
Thank you, Pam, for this most excellent reminder! Wishing you and everyone a hedgehog hello and happy July! r
Thank you SO MUCH for the hedgehog hello!
🤍🤍🤍
Hearts back at ya!
Here’s to another summer of ❤️ love.
A year of ❤️love. A lifetime of ❤️love.
Check out the flag just put up on top of Empire State Building!
So profound. So glad you pointed it out!!
Yes to all those loves. The only true thing!
All things are possible due to our unlimited nature to create. As you say, however, only our beliefs can limit us. So exciting to be in this new age of anything goes. When I look at all the good news sites (and there are a number of them), I am blown away by the incredible creativity that is occurring right now.
Let’s hear it for good news sites. The only news that’s real!
Thanks, as always, Pam and friends! I’ve been rereading Thank & Grow Rich for the one hundredth time as a reminder to look up instead of in each day.
I love going back to read my books, too! Thanks!
I love you, Pam!
And I love you!