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Today - Weekly Impossible Prompt & Intentions for the Week
Hey all - keeping our tradition of a brief Monday noon EST check-in to share a weekly prompt and open up the conversation about what micro-steps you might take this week towards whatever goal you may have out there. Login here: https://www.skool.com/live/chhjY2MH2Wn See you on the call!
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-"Desazon." This is a Spanish word without an exact English translation (from my experience), but it's nuanced, something between "discomfort" and "angst." -Related to today's call, I'm thinking about recycling and repurposing areas of my life, like turning swag into holiday gag gifts (pens for aunts, uncles, and cousins!).
Prompt: How Does Gratefulness Impact Your Goals?
Gratefulness plays an integral role in our identities. It shifts our focus from what’s missing to what’s already supporting us. Reflect on how gratefulness shapes your energy, decision-making, and momentum. What are you grateful for right now that actually helps you move toward your goals, both possible and impossible? Write a few sentences or bullet out the sources of strength already in your life. Have an awesome Thanksgiving! We're headed to Ellicott City, Maryland for a big cousin party, our kids say Thanksgiving Day is their favorite day of the year and we are so blessed. Pete
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I am grateful for: -Grounding in my spirituality and family -- with an awareness that nothing lasts forever and we're all part of something bigger, grains of sand on some cosmic beach. -Exploring new vistas -- without even needing an airplane ride -The new "The American Revolution" series on PBS.: "Our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor." It makes me contemplate the hardships and sacrifices my ancestors went through -- dating to the origins of this county.
First Week Reflections & Weekend Prompt
First off, thanks for jumping into the Impossible Community. You're here because I reached out to a few on my inner circle to be a part of something completely new. Special thanks for @Sean Murphy for having coffee this morning and listening to why I'm doing this and providing true feedback and some great insights on how we can build something truly meaningful. It's about taking leaps...even super small ones. More on that down below. This group is the result of building communities for the past two decades. I learned a ton from watching people transform their lives through a technology lens. I watched people take leaps and found myself taking personal leaps but never fully allowing myself to take a big professional leap. And I've concluded that we're designed to take leaps, as it's part of our very makeup as every cell in our body is comprised of atoms who's electrons take a leap when enough energy is generated such that they have no choice- it becomes inevitable. This is happening inside our cells billions of times per second. We already know how to do this, but we've developed identities that keep us from doing so. To make leaps in our lives, we need energy, or resonance, and this is why I launched The Impossible Works project. I've learned so much since making this move and launching the Alpha version of this community just five short days ago. Perhaps getting aligned on the 'why' is one of the big things I've learned. Here are the big things I've learned: -- Skool reminds of Meetup circa 2008 - which changed my life in a very meaningful way. This feels familiar. -- Almost everybody has something they want to do that they are holding back on - personal and/or professional. Our purpose for existing is simple. -- About 25% of this group indicates they already know their impossible goal while almost everyone else has an idea, but need support defining it. This is gold! -- This is not a hustle, motivational, accountability community. This is a movement built on resonance, vs. accountability, energy vs. obligation, belonging vs. fomo, and identity vs. willpower. This should not feel like work in the traditional sense.
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Recently, I've been scanning and organizing a trove of family photos -- in order to preserve them and ensure my family can view them online. Today, my small leap was categorizing a photo of my grandfather and his five brothers on their Wisconsin farm sometime around the late 1930s. This made me think, as I hurtle into my future, about the sacrifices and uncertainties they dealt with during the Depression and World War II. Five of of these six men lived for decades afterwords as the country's situation improved. It was a grounding and humbling experience.
Daily Prompt - What have you outgrown but still cling to?
Guidance:Think about habits, beliefs, roles, or responsibilities that once served you but no longer reflect who you’re becoming. What are you holding onto out of comfort, fear, or familiarity? Naming these creates space for the impossible to emerge.
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I'm holding on to the assumption that institutions are as they once were.
Impossible Does Not Mean Complex (Daily Prompt)
Most people hear the word “impossible” and instantly assume it must be complicated. They picture a giant, overwhelming goal with a thousand moving pieces…when in reality, impossible has nothing to do with complexity. The things that feel impossible in our lives usually feel that way for one reason: We don’t believe we’re in a position to achieve them. That’s it. Not skill. Not resources. Not timing. But a belief. Here’s the truth we work with inside this community: Impossible often shows up as something simple, clear, and deeply meaningful, yet psychologically out of reach. - Leaving the job you’ve outgrown - Starting the business you’ve been circling for years, or growing your current business to unimaginable levels. - Becoming an artist - Ascending to the C-suite - Building the relationship you really want - Speaking your truth openly - Living with freedom instead of fear None of these are complex. But they can feel impossible because they require you to believe something new. They ask you to shift your identity, your beliefs, your conditioning, your patterns. That’s the real work. And that’s why most people stay in the realm of “possible” their entire lives. Here’s the breakthrough: You stop equating impossible with complexity. You start seeing your impossible goal for what it really is: A version of you trying to emerge. In this community, you’re going to learn how to see that clearly—how to name it, map it, and walk toward it until it becomes inevitable. This journey isn’t about making life harder or adding complexity. This is about discovering how much simpler, clearer, and more aligned your life becomes when you finally step into the impossible. Prompt: Have you noticed where complexity made things harder vs. better?
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I've experienced that complexity often stems from over analysis: -"What about this, what about that?" -"What will they think?" -"Whom am I representing?" Whereas simplicity, if one believes in such matters, derives from a a more spiritual, instinctive side. To draw a Star Wars analogy, while we're not exactly a blindfolded Luke Skywalker swinging at the spherical training droid on Dagobah, perhaps paying more attention to that aspect of our existence will benefit us more.
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Synergizing policy, communications, and tech -- with a passion for history and culture.

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