You can be sure that snow-weary New Englanders do not want to hear that others have had it worse. But it’s true. Roald Amundsen not only endured harsher conditions, he pursued them. Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, became the first person to lead a successful journey to the South Pole. In doing so, he showed us […]
The incredible story of why there’s a Magic Kingdom today. That story can be the reason you can do the impossible. When Walt Disney tried to place his original Disneyland, he was turned down. Instead of getting discouraged, he just went elsewhere.
Bill James became one of the top 100 most influential people in the world through his analysis of baseball statistics. You can do what he did: Find something you love and learn more than anyone else in the world about it.
At its core, doing the impossible is a choice. A loser says, “It may be possible, but it’s too difficult.” A winner says, “It may be difficult, but it’s possible.”
Genius is seeing what everyone else thinks and thinking what no one else does. That can be you.
The lesson Lou Holtz learned in his very first game as a head college football coach. You can only coach one team — yours.
Real toughness isn’t throwing fists or getting in someone’s face. Real toughness is absorbing negative feedback, stepping back from its sting, and re-examing it for ways to improve.
Like famous magician Harry Houdini, people who do the impossible aren’t more gifted than others. They’ve just found the right strategy.
Malcolm Butler, unlikely hero of the Super Bowl, just kept getting better. It’s harder than it sounds. Improvement takes focus, persistence and the mental toughness to work outside your comfort zone, all without any guarantees.
Anyone who’s ever sold Girl Scout cookies knows the usual formula: Sell to family and friends, and maybe to some neighbors. Not Katie Francis. She started out by aiming for a world record, beat it, then kept raising her goals. That approach helped Katie, who was in sixth grade at the time, sell what you’d […]