What Impossible Thing Can You Do Today?
Going well beyond your comfort zone
Would you like to venture into the extraordinary and leave the ordinary behind? The Matrix movies portrayed humans stuck in a simulation. Are you trapped in a simulation of your own making, a place of comfort or discomfort? If so, how can you make a bold move to leap out of it?
Recently, I found myself stuck in my comfort zone. This time, I remembered a coaching pattern I co-developed many years ago. A question emerged from a study early in my career. In 2005, Computer Sciences Corporation asked me to study current innovation approaches. Cirque du Soleil stood out because it prospered while traditional circuses faltered. It had a storyline, more stylish costumes, and combined acrobatics with dance. Its CEO began each day asking,
What is impossible that I’m going to do today?
This impossibility question resonated within me for over a year. I brought it to a Neuro-Semantics developers conference in 2006. A goal at the conference was to learn how to create Neuro-Semantics patterns to “run your own brain.” You could use the patterns during coaching sessions and in trainings.
At the conference, Michael Hall and I led an effort to create a pattern around the impossibility question. This…
