July1stJuly30th,2009

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A quick note from Michael:

Welcome to Creating the Impossible: 30 days to transform your world!
In this mini-workbook, youll find everything you need to get started. You may like
to print it out and either bind it or punch some holes in it and place it in a loose-leaf
binder.
Lets begin by taking a closer look at how it all works:

1. Each day, youll get an e-mail with a link to an audio recording Ive made
especially for this program. Each recording will be less than 10 minutes long,
and will contain a distinction, possibility or action step that you can use to
assist you in moving forward on your impossible goal.
Some of these e-mails will also include links to additional support materials.
These materials are optional theyre there for you if you want a little
something extra to lift you up or launch you forward.

2. You can find the forums at http://www.geniuscatalyst.com/forums/. Use the

forums as a place to share your impossible goals, find up what other people
are up to, and borrow from the inspiration of the group in those moments
where your own inspiration seems to have wandered off without you!

3. Every Tuesday and Friday (beginning on the 7th of July), well be hosting an
Action Day. Youll get more information about action days during the course
of the program, but essentially they are there to support you in getting more
done than you are probably used to by providing a structure in which to do
it.
You dont have to block out the whole day just make whatever time you
can and join in the fun!

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And thats it - everything else you need to know will be made clear as we move
forward.

If you are having any technical difficulties, contact help@geniuscatalyst.com

and someone will get back to you within 24 hours.

Any other questions or queries, try the forums first, as chances are that
solving whatever youre having difficulty with will make life easier for
someone else. Failing that, you can send an email to
terri@geniuscatalyst.com and someone from the genius catalyst team will be
able to help you out!

Have fun, learn heaps, and lets make the impossible happen!
With love,

Michael

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Choosing your Impossible Goal

The great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.
-Michelangelo

Here are a few guidelines for choosing your impossible goal for this program:
1. Choose something you don't really believe CAN happen, but you would LOVE it if
it did.

2. Choose something that does not involve harming yourself or others in order to
get it.
3. Choose something that is legal in whatever part of the world in which you are
living.
4. Choose something that you want for its own sake, not because it would make
you look good or prove that your parents/teacher/spouse were wrong about you.
5. Choose something where it is absolutely possible (and perhaps even likely) that
you will fail to achieve it.

Write your impossible goal here:

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Planning to Fail
At some level, most of us know in advance why we are going to fail at something.
Weve already prepared our story and made out our excuses in advance.
Use the space below to answer this question:
If you fail to achieve your impossible goal or create disappointing results over the
next 30 days, what will be the reason for that? What else? What else?

By getting your excuses out of your head and onto paper, you have a chance to
look them in the eye and decide whether this time you want to do things
differently.

If you treat whatever stands in your way as an obstacle, you can bring the
full creative resources of your mind (and the group) and find ways to get
over, around or through it

If you choose to use it as an excuse, you allow yourself to be tripped up or

otherwise stopped by it

Theres no shame or blame if you do if creating the impossible is just going to

become another reason to beat yourself up, you may as well stop now. As the
saying goes, suffering is optional but you have to provide it for yourself.
But I want you to know that the possibility to surprise yourself is always present
and the only one who can stop you from finding out whats really possible is you!
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Here are some of the most common obstacles to success. Once youve identified
the ones which seem to be between you and your goal, you know where to look for
the resources youll need to overcome them:
Obstacle Area
Information

Indicators
I dont know what to do and I dont know
where to go to find out.

Skill

I dont yet have the skills I need to succeed

in this area.

Belief

This is impossible, or at best unlikely to ever

work/happen.
Other people might be able to do this, but
its just not possible or likely for me.

Well-Being

Im way too stressed/tired/unwell to deal with

this.

Other People

My boss/spouse/child/friend/etc. make it
difficult for me.
Its just not up to me.

Motivation

I just dont care enough.

I cant seem to get started.
I cant seem to create or sustain any
momentum.

Time

Theres not enough time in the day.

Money

Id love to, but I dont think I can afford to.

Fear

I feel sick at the thought of pushing myself

through this.

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The Hundred Actions

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
-Elbert Hubbard
When you focus too closely on a result, especially a great big impossible result, its
easy to get overwhelmed and even a little bit dispirited. But action is the great
equalizer. No matter how difficult things may seem and no matter how large the
task, theres always something which can be done.
When I first began creating the impossible in my own life, I would sometimes be
unsure as to whether or not it was even worth getting started. So I made a deal
with myself I would take a hundred actions towards my goal. If after a hundred
actions it seemed no closer, I could step back and re-evaluate.
Heres what Ive discovered:
Once youve taken a hundred actions towards your goal,
it is always more possible than it was when you began.
Use the chart on the following page to track the first hundred actions towards your
impossible goal. Put it somewhere you can see it, or create your own if you prefer.
The key is to realize that what gets measured gets done. Whether you complete
your hundred actions in the first week or take the whole 30 days, youll be amazed
at how much closer your goal will look than it appears to you right now

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My Goal:

The 100 Actions

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Notes from the daily lessons:

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Notes from the daily lessons:

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Notes from the daily lessons:

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Notes from the daily lessons:

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Notes from the daily lessons:

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