Lane 8.org » impossible http://www.lane8.org If Your Goal Isn't Impossible, You're Not Reaching High Enough Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:02:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Setting Your Bar Low, But Impossible, Is Perfect http://www.lane8.org/as-you-get-older/setting-your-bar-low-but-impossible-is-perfect/ http://www.lane8.org/as-you-get-older/setting-your-bar-low-but-impossible-is-perfect/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:02:49 +0000 jeff noel http://www.lane8.org/?p=11180 Continue reading →]]>

Can you begin your walking journey 4 days this week?

This is not a Mid Life Celebration contradiction. If walking four days a week for one week is something you’ve never done, consider it impossible and set out to do your impossible. Then set another impossible goal – to do it two weeks in a row.

By typical standards, this is a ridiculously “low bar” goal. But for you, it may be the triumph of your lifetime. Build on it. Go.

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It's all a matter of perspective, in anything

Fail, lose?

Or fail, win?

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To teach is to learn twice. Aim for perfection, settle for excellence. Every day preach the Gospel, and if necessary, use words. If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.

The number one way to learn is to teach. You know this. Imagine wanting to become an excellent professional speaker (another impossible goal). Could jeff noel take the most obscure thing, like running, and apply Disney Business Practices to become an Olympic athlete?

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So I made two goals, opposite ends of the spectrum, which is what I recommend for you – whether beginner, intermediate or advanced. Make a small, easily achievable goal. And then, set an impossible goal.

Small – one mailbox a day for a week.

Impossible – dreamt big to get, and more importantly to stay, healthy – for a lifetime.

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]]> http://www.lane8.org/maybe-its-impossible/small-impossible/feed/ 2 National Championships in 2011 http://www.lane8.org/lane-8-vision/national-championships-in-2011/ http://www.lane8.org/lane-8-vision/national-championships-in-2011/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:23:34 +0000 jeff noel http://lane8.org/?p=4929 Continue reading →]]> Missed it last year too…

The 2011 Master’s Track & Field Indoor National Championships will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 4-6.

I will not be there.

Of course, this is a trivial issue for all of you. In fact, I’d go as far as saying, unless you’re my Mother, you don’t care.

That’s okay, we can still be friends. But let this “disappointment” be another one of many, in the quest for an impossible goal.

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]]> http://www.lane8.org/lane-8-vision/national-championships-in-2011/feed/ 0 You’re Not Capable http://www.lane8.org/impossible-is-for-amateurs/youre-not-capable/ http://www.lane8.org/impossible-is-for-amateurs/youre-not-capable/#comments Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:06:30 +0000 jeff noel http://lane8.org/?p=6947 Continue reading →]]> She Didn't Think She Could Peddle 25 Miles Uphill To The Summit

She Didn't Think She Could Peddle 25 Miles Uphill To The Summit

But She Did!

But She Did!

Made It After 8 Hours Of Continuous Uphill Climb

Made It After 8 Hours Of Continuous Uphill Climb

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. ~Robert Brault

We aren’t capable.

Not when we start, but we become strangely confident by the time it’s over.

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]]> http://www.lane8.org/impossible-is-for-amateurs/youre-not-capable/feed/ 0 6 Impossible Dreams Before Sunrise? http://www.lane8.org/impossible-is-for-amateurs/6-impossible-dreams-before-sunrise/ http://www.lane8.org/impossible-is-for-amateurs/6-impossible-dreams-before-sunrise/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:02:09 +0000 jeff noel http://lane8.org/?p=6089 Continue reading →]]> The Focus Is Fear Or Courage?

The Focus Is Fear Or Courage?

A couple nights ago we had “movie night” at our house and chose Disney’s “Alice In Wonderland”, with Johnny Depp.

Early in the movie, Alice is sharing with someone that her Father would dream six impossible dreams before breakfast. A typical morning for him.

Alice’s Father was a dreamer.

Are you?

What would have happened if Martin Luther King wouldn’t have been a dreamer?

Don’t listen to your lizard brain, listen to your heart.

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Reach For The Stars

What would you say? Does it roll off the tip of your tongue like honeydew vine water?

Or do you hesitate?

“If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough”.

(you do know that’s the tag line here at Lane 8, right?)

Heck yeah, I have no idea how I’m going to help raise money until a cure is found. It does feel impossible.

Until I remember why I’m here.

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The Answers Seem to Be Behind The Fence

The Answers Seem to Be Behind The Fence

Getting in shape, whatever that means, is something most people know to be a reasonable and desirable goal.

But doing it is next to impossible for many people.

Do you know why?

Do you know the secret to overcoming what most can not, will not, and do not overcome?

Crazy thing is, both those questions have been answered here at Lane 8, at least a dozen times in the past 14 months.

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One Is A World-Record Holder

One Is A World-Record Holder

“Ever worry about being too fast?”

This is usually not anything that crosses a runner’s mind.

And if you’re not a runner, think of it this way, “Ever worry about being too good at something you’re working hard to be good at?”

Um, let me guess, “No, it never crosses your mind.  Why would it?  Who doesn’t want to be really fast, or really good?”

Exactly.

Except.

Except when too much too soon could be detrimental to your long term success.

Heading out for a five-mile run.  I sure hope the fourth mile isn’t under six minutes.

Not yet anyway.

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