... ”about this time tomorrow you will have done the impossible."
C.S. Lewis - Perelandra

Okay, Maybe this quote needs some context. Here is the quote in within the surrounding paragraph.

The thing still seemed impossible. But gradually something happened to him which had happened to him only twice before in his life. It had happened once while he was trying to make up his mind to do a very dangerous job in the last war. It had happened again while he was screwing his resolution to go and see a certain man in London and make to him an excessively embarrassing confession which justice demanded. In both cases the thing had seemed a sheer impossibility: he had not thought but known that, being what he was, he was psychologically incapable of doing it; and then, without any apparent movement of the will, as objective and unemotional as the reading on a dial, there had arisen before him, with perfect certitude, the knowledge “about this time tomorrow you will have done the impossible.” The same thing happened now.

I love this particular passage because it reminds of a simple truth. Possibility is often based on your point of view. Often there are constraints than have nothing to do with reality. These make “impossible.” This passage also points out one way to attack the problem of impossible. Imagine that you are in tomorrow, and the “impossible” was done. In this story, the purpose for this was to provide the courage to act. But you can also look backward in your mind and see what would have to happen to do the “impossible.” What current assumptions would have to change? What opportunities would you have to be able to see?

Is there anything “impossible” in your life you need to imagine as done, just to see how you might do it? Or perhaps to take the first steps forward to see if it is really “impossible” or not?