First Week Reflections & Weekend Prompt · The Impossible Community

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.

This week, I've validated to myself why I have made this move. This is something I've wanted to do for much of the past decade. From the Code Writers Workshops I created in 2015-2017- which provided a platform for developers to manage all the non-coding aspects of their lives to the Software Leadership Summits in Aspen 2016-2019- that brought engineering leaders together to solve their most vexing challenges in a trusted off-the-record space. I've been knocking all around it. But this week I launched the Impossible Community to focus on making leaps in our lives, to what may feel impossible but is inevitable with the right amount of resonance. After all, it's part of who we already are.

Thank you for being here and for being a part of this journey. I've learned a ton in just one week and look forward to seeing what the days and weeks ahead bring.

Weekend prompt: What small leap can you make today that is a part of a future identity?

Note, even if you don't have your impossible goal well defined, you probably know what that future self may be like. What sort of daily actions is that person taking? They probably aren't hard and in fact, may be super simple. Can you identify and take one of those actions? One of those small leaps?

Have a great weekend!

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