From Impossible to I'm Possible

Say the word impossible out loud. It sounds so final, so closed, like a locked door. We use it to end conversations with ourselves. I could never. It is impossible.

Now look at the word on paper and move one small space. Impossible becomes I'm possible. The letters never changed. Only the spacing did. The whole meaning turned on something that small.

I love this, because it is exactly how change actually happens. We do not become different people overnight. We make one small shift, move one small space, and suddenly the same situation reads in a brand new way. The facts of your life can stay the same while your relationship to them transforms.

I am not asking you to believe you can do anything. That is too big a leap, and your mind will not buy it. I am asking you to move one space. To go from I can't to maybe I could start. From it is impossible to I'm possible, in some small way, today.

The locked door was never as locked as it sounded. Sometimes you just have to look at the word again.