Creating the Impossible: How to Get Any Project Out of Your Head and into the World in Less Than 90 Days

by Michael Neill

Don’t believe everything you think.

the best way to do good work is to do lots of it.

we only know what we think.

The discomfort of certain feelings is there to warn you of the larger discomfort if you carry on thinking the way you’re thinking.

But that prevents you from feeling a lot of pain if you carry on toward the fire.

This hyper-focus on thoughts and feelings (as opposed to the golf ball and your target) may well interfere with your natural ability and learned skills and affect your golf shot.

So we spend less time cleaning up our mess or thinking about everything that could go wrong (or right) and more time doing what needs to be done.

Begin to enjoy everything you do.

Each time we get past our thinking and into whatever it is that we’re doing, we learn more and do better.

What they do do is distract us from the rich inner resources we have to respond to what’s happening now.

‘Well, the mind works more like a projector than a camera…’

unexpected synchronicities (i.e. ‘luck’) is 100 percent reliable and 98 percent unpredictable.

We tend to think of creativity as a series of steps we have to take rather than a naturally unfolding process we can make use of.

create something from nothing.

‘What would you need to do in order for all that to happen?’

‘What would need to happen in order to…?’

The relevant question is not ‘How’s it going?’ as in ‘How are you feeling about it?’ The relevant question is: ‘Where are you now in relation to where you ultimately want to be?’

continual ‘changing my mind’ that I experienced was part of the natural variability of thought,

The wisdom of our deeper mind guides our way forward whenever we let it, without ever trying to take away our free will.

give up in the present to avoid feeling bad in the future.

we were made to learn through experimentation – trial and error; trial and success.

‘the kind of person we are’ is all made up.

You’re the space inside which the thoughts come and go.

fear of failure stops looking like a good reason to do or not do anything.

‘Are you open to finding new ways to make money?’

‘Am I willing to succeed at…?’

Momentum is the ultimate force multiplier for success.

big ask

No amount of success or failure will make us any more or less worthy of love and respect.

easier it is to work on a project once how it’s going is divorced from how I’m feeling about

We’re going to stay in the game because we really want to be in the game.

we’re rarely at our most creative or inspired when we’re looking to get access to more of it.

we’re not willing to stay in the unknown long enough to open up to the space inside

pressure isn’t an intrinsic or even essential element of high performance.

we stop being

scared of our feelings and just feel them.

what would be the actual amount at stake in terms of time, money, or any other commodity you would be putting into play?

When it comes to any impossible project, the ‘how’ is almost always revealed to us along the way, and almost never visible when we begin.