You Can’t Aim Too High

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Ronald T. Brown, Ph.D.

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” - Vince Lombardi

Achieving 65% of the impossible is better than 100% of the ordinary – Setting impossible goals and achieving part of them sets you on a completely different path than taking the safe route. Sometimes you can achieve the impossible - but even when you don’t, you are on a fast track to achieving something much better than what would have been achieved in simply doing a revised version of the old way.

The rewards for achieving the impossible (and even something close to it) are significant. Don’t fear choosing to look past the norm to embrace a higher ambition and goal. Don’t give into the fears that will naturally try to talk you out of thinking larger and believing that something new and better can be created. Don’t become discouraged when you consider that audacious goal, for as Thomas Edison said, “Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged - that is the place to press on.”

So as you consider your future - aim high, and then aim higher!