1033 - How To Do the Things That You Think Are Impossible

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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “How can I have the biggest of my dreams come true?”

Well I guess I became qualified in the answering of this question, when on the 24th April 2007 on our Silver Wedding Anniversary Day, whilst visiting Hollywood and Santa Monica in California, my wife Anne and I went down to The Boardwalk in Venice Beach and just after that, I paddled in the Pacific Ocean; something that previously I had only dreamed of doing!

You might think, well Andrew, that’s really nice for you, I’m very pleased for you that you had that experience, but what’s that got to do with me? What’s that got to do with anything that might be happening, in my life right now? The point that I’m making is, it’s possible to do something that you previously thought you would never do. You might think that this isn’t such an amazing thing to do, but for me it was, because you see I’d never been on a plane before!

I hear you say “Where had you been Andrew, all your life?” The answer is the UK! I always used to say “Why do people go abroad, when there are so many lovely places to visit in the UK?” So getting on the airplane that took Anne and myself to LA made the big deal of our Silver Wedding Anniversary itself, even bigger and that’s not to mention our further trips, on to Las Vegas and then the Grand Canyon. Just having paddled in the Pacific Ocean would have been a story worth telling to our Grandsons.

The detail of what happened as I walked along the shore line at Venice Beach is a funny story in itself and worth telling to you now. At the moment I was there paddling, I was asking Anne to “Take a photo of me!” because I realised how amazing this walk along the beach was for me. This wasn’t Morecambe, Whitby, Lowestoft or Worthing, places I’d been many times, this was “Cal I Forn I A!” and I’d just walked across a footbridge that had taken me across Highway 1, the main American Pacific Highway to the Santa Monica Pier; where I’d walked above the Pacific Ocean quite a long way from dry land, to the end of the Pier to be precise!

Anyway, back at Venice Beach, where I was being videoed not photographed. Anne shouted “Duck!” and I said “What?!” She said “Duck, there’s a pelican flying towards you!” I’ve never seen a bird as big as that before, not outside of a zoo anyway! I just ducked at the right moment without seeing the bird and I’m sure if I hadn’t, it would have knocked me over or even knocked me out, by hitting me in the head.

It’s a good job I picked up the anxiousness and warning tone in Anne’s voice. I remember thinking to myself penguin, puffin, pelican, their all very much similar sizes aren’t they, but they’re not and I’ve got a Silver Anniversary video to prove it!

So, I had this experience of going to the other side of the planet! The main reason in my mind why that happened, was because of the goals that I’d set, when I got my own Life Coach. My life changed because I started to believe that anything’s possible.

What’s more hand on heart; I do believe that anything is possible in your life too! In my work as a Life Coach I have seen this transformation of thinking happen in many people’s lives and also I have been privileged to share the joy that the outcome of the change of thinking has had in my client’s lives.

I’d love to be the Life Coach that was the one that helped you to gain the tools, the strategies and the wisdom that will take you, from where you are to where you want to be. So please, please, please, do yourself the favour of making sure that you’re getting the most that you possibly can get, out of your life.

I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.

You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys To Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!