Believing You Can Do the Wonderful

" Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

- C.S. Lewis

(1898-1963) Author/Educator

Have you ever seen Cirque du Soleil?  If not, I highly suggest that you go to a show, rent a DVD or somehow become exposed to this marvelous display of talent and wonder.  I have never seen anything so inspiring and mysterious in my life.  This is a group of some of the most talented, athletic, and courageous performers to ever hit a stage.  Beyond the great performance and wonderful music that they give, I could not help but thinking, these people do not know the term, "It cannot be done."

                In life we face many struggles and difficulties.  The challenges we face, in all lines of work, are beyond any that we faced before.  However, that is not the real struggle we must face.  The real battle is believing that the impossible can be done. 

                What ever happened to our ability to believe in the wonder and mystery of life?  As children we could believe in fairies, dragons, heroic quests for great treasure and the magic of the impossible.  Yes, we grew up and came to believe that there were no fairies or dragons.  We stopped believing in magic and legends.  What we also lost was the ability to believe the impossible.  We thought we were being logical, reasonable and adult in our thinking and all along we were becoming dead and empty.

                Yet, there were and are many success-minded people who did believe in wonder and that impossible things were only impossible to those who did not believe in the power of possibility.  Those who believed that man could fly, that the human heart could be transplanted, that people could walk on the moon and that an ordinary, everyday, person could in fact achieve the extraordinary.

                It is not such a long shot to believe in magic.  Not the hocus-pocus kind of magic that gives you what you want without any work, but the magic that everyday people perform every day.  It is the magic that allows a dream to become reality.  It is the magic that says, this can be done if we find the way to do it - and them find that way.  It is the magic that believes that we were created for greatness.  After all, we were created in the image and likeness of a Creator who thrived on the impossible.

                What challenge do you face that is just out and out impossible?  Are you willing to face that challenge with the belief that you can do this?  No excuses.  Excuses only weaken and defeat us.  Losers have excuses.  Winners have answers.  As Benjamin Franklin said, "He who is good at making excuses is good at very little else."

                The first step in achieving the impossible is believing that you can.  It is in developing the ability to once again see wonder in the world.  To look for the amazing and extraordinary all around you.  Open your eyes to what has been achieved by those who never believed that it cannot be done.  Then, take a deep breath; put a smile on your face; stand up tall and make magic happen.

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