Well . . .

Hmmm . . .

That would be . . .

Ahem  . . .

Yes, that would be . . .

You.

One of my all-time favorite motivational stories is about Roger Bannister, the young British medical student who, back in the early 1950s, became the first human to run a mile in under four minutes.

Sports writers and analysts had been saying, for decades, that no one would ever run a mile under four minutes.

Couldn’t be done, they said.

Scientists of the day were writing journal articles about how the human body was incapable of that level of energy and speed.

Impossible, they said.

We’ve proved it’s beyond human means, the leading thinkers of the age declared.

Well, of course, now we know it wasn’t impossible, because Sir Roger (he wasn’t a sir, then, of course) did it.

Amazing, huh?

Well, yes it is . . . but you want to know the most amazing thing about the whole affair?

You see, in the year following Bannister’s milestone trot around that fabled old track in Oxford, England . . . seventeen other runners recorded times under four minutes as well.  From spots all across the globe.

Gee!  Wowie, zowie.

Couldn’t be done.

Impossible.

Science says “no way.”

Okay, Dream Jobber, what was that excuse again?  You know, the one that’s keeping you from the life of your dreams?

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