IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING

“When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER IMPROBABLE, must be the truth” - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

I believe it's high time we got together and sent a strong petition for the removal of the word “impossible” from the English lexicon.

Imagine what we would have achieved as a people, a family, an organization or even as individuals if we didn’t know that "impossibility" never existed. The mere knowledge that something maybe impossible sends a conscious or unconscious message to our brain, our determination, or our abilities that there are things we shouldn’t even dare. Yet history is replete with feats that were hitherto impossible, until they were achieved. Automobile genius, Henry Ford, once came up with a revolutionary plan for a new kind of engine which we know today as the V-8. Ford was eager to get his great new idea into production. He had some men draw up the plans, and presented them to the engineers. As the engineers studied the drawings, one by one they came to the same conclusion. Their visionary boss just didn't know much about the fundamental principles of engineering. He'd have to be told gently - his dream was impossible. Ford said, "Produce it anyway" They replied, "But it's impossible." "Go ahead," Ford commanded, "and stay on the job until you succeed, no matter how much time is required." For six months they struggled with drawing after drawing, design after design. Nothing. Another six months. Nothing.

At the end of the year Ford checked with his engineers and they once again told him that what he wanted was impossible. Ford told them to keep going. They did. And they discovered how to build a V-8 engine.

I do realize the track record, facts and figures supporting the argument for the impossibility of what your dreams are made of; I understand the history of the many people that have failed trying to do what you want to achieve. My only concern is that you are a different individual, with a different set of skills. A totally different destiny and purpose - you are, the one, that history has been waiting for to move that desire from the realm of impossibility...it was impossible, until you stepped in. Like Henry Ford, I congratulate you ahead of time for your next breakthrough achievement. For you I dare say that impossible is nothing!