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Today we are talking about the importance of doing the impossible.

Let me tell my story first. I was working as a consultant for business owners, helping them with leadership and with their vision. And the challenge was I woke up one day and I realized that people were paying me primarily for my knowledge and my experience.

I have a large desire to make an impact on the world. And every person that I work with, I want to help to the maximum ability that I have. I realized that my knowledge and my experience, even though I've been doing this now for 16 years, relatively is still pretty small, based on the amount of value that I want to bring to the table.

What do I have that is more valuable? And the answer was clear. Sometimes you have to search for the answers and sometimes they're sitting right in front of you. My greatest value is my imagination and my creativity. Einstein said you cannot solve your problems with the same level of thinking that created them.

What I've come to understand is some of the most valuable solutions come from creativity, not from knowledge. In my world, the amount of money that you get paid is in direct correlation to the size of the problems that you solve.

I was essentially getting paid to answer questions that I knew the answers to. And I decided to change that. I got curious. I asked myself, “What if I got paid to answer questions that I didn't know the answers to?” What type of money would I be able to create as a function of that?

That was a pretty inspiring equation for me to think about. In context of helping people who are going to be asking me questions that I don't know the answers to, what types of things are they going to be wanting to do?

We all have these moments in life where we realize that we're living below our potential. And that moment puts us at a crossroad where we can decide what we want to do about it.

And I think one of the most powerful things to do in those moments is to decide to take the path less traveled, which is usually the decision to expand.

So I created a program where the minimum time commitment to work with me was three years. To most people in the coaching or consulting world, that probably sounds astronomical. And I realized that everything is relative. I thought to myself, if someone has goals that they can achieve within 12 months, then working with them for 12 months makes sense.

But if they have really big legacy level dent-the-universe type of goals, then 12 months is completely inadequate and three years relatively is a good start. It completely changed my perspective about time and commitment.

So the first part is: if you are feeling the desire to expand, go for it. And the second part is to make sure it's big enough that you don't know how to do it. That's the benefit of doing the impossible. It requires you to be a bigger version than you've ever been.

It requires you to be more resourceful, more capable, more powerful, more creative, more imaginative than ever. When you do the impossible, there is this amazing echo effect.

Not only does that help you elevate, but it helps all of the people who get to experience the impact that you've created. Realize that whatever they think it is that's impossible is probably possible too. And so, that ignites them.

That gives them permission to embark on their impossible. So think about the concentric circles and think about the ripple effect. As a function of doing it, you become this expanded version of you and you do something that the world didn't believe was possible.

If you are a visionary leader who wants to quantum leap your impact and leave a legacy of achieving the impossible, I am here and the world is waiting. Email me at shannon@shannongraham.com

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