What It’s Like To Do the Impossible
June 22, 2010
do the impossible
Recently I went on a 5 day book writing retreat and I finished my book in only 2 1/2 days. I had been working on this book for over a year so it was a great and enormous accomplishment to get it out and done.
In the process I got to experience again what it’s like to accomplish the impossible, and it’s an amazing experience.
I’ve done this a few times in my life – learning Italian, living in Italy, NLP Trainer’s training and the flying trapeze. These were all things that I never thought I could do, but I did.
overcoming
It is a wonderful and life-changing experience to do those things that you don’t believe you can do. It alters your view of reality and something opens up for you – like a whole new world of possibility.
I had been very stuck about writing this book because it’s very raw and real and personal to me. It’s a kind of humorous, touching and intimate “Eat, Pray, Love” story, written from my heart.
These are my very own stories told for the first time.
The method we used for writing was phenomenal. We were to write at a speed so fast, that you literally have no time to think about what you’re writing. I was so super-charged that I wrote at the rate of 4,000 words an hour.
How did I do that??
I wrote 54,000 words in 2 1/2 days – amazing. And to boot I was suffering from a massive allergy attack the entire time. I was sneezing and coughing so badly that I thought I wasn’t going to make it through. Ironically I’ve never had allergies before.
But I was not going to let this or anything else stop me. At one point, I was coughing so hard I could not stop but I just willed myself to overcome and kept writing. Cough or no cough, I was going to finish my book. And I did.
it's possible
After I was done, I laid my head down on the desk and just lay there for quite a few minutes until the retreat leader came over and claimed my book officially done.
Whew!
Now there’s some rewriting to do, then editing and into publishing. I’m going to have this done in a few short months.
It’s a wonderful feeling to have done the impossible. I plan to help everyone else do the impossible too. It can be done.
Think about what leap you want to make today. Which chasm in your life do you want to cross? What is waiting for you on the other side? Something good for sure.
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Well done you! I said a few years ago ‘I can’t learn fiddle tunes by ear’. Now I do it often – and once they are learned by ear, you don’t forget them. Your fingers remember, not your brain. It’s amazing. Now I want to create a blog with a following that runs into hundreds. There – I’ve said it to you so I have to do it!
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This is a lovely and hopeful post. I can feel what you are trying to put into words — the feeling you got accomplishing something that seemed so hard for so long. You must be flying! Good on you, and thank you for giving hope to the rest of us for accomplilshing our “hard-to-dos.”
I agree with you completely about the impossible. I used to put on seminars that included firewalking, ropes courses, board breaking, etc. Within that context, we saw many seeming miracles of people doing “impossible” things. One of the most memorable was a woman with cerebral palsy doing a difficult balancing exercise. It was walking atop a free swinging log and should have been impossible given the amount of muscle control that she had. She accessed some inner level of balance that transcended her physical limitations and she went all the way across. Absolutely awe inspiring lesson for her and everyone there.