I just watched Helen Skelton’s high wire walk at Battersea Station for Comic Relief (watch the highlights here or go to the bbc iplayer for the full program). She 
walked a tightrope suspended between the chimneys at Battersea Power Station 492 feet in the air. Shudder. I could barely watch, so fair play to her for actually doing this on a windy, rainy March day. But it wasn’t really the feat itself I wanted to blog about today, it was something she said in the documentary.
Difficult and Impossible are Two Different Things
How often have you dismissed something as ‘impossible’? What have you decided is impossible for you? And is it really impossible, or just difficult? I am a big fan of making life easy, not making life more difficult than it needs to be, but sometimes when talking to people about following their dreams in life, it ain’t always easy. Sometimes it is difficult. When I travelled round Australia on my own, it wasn’t always easy. The past 7 years of having my own business has not always been easy.
I would never advise making life harder for yourself than it needs to be…but sometimes to get to where you want to be, you have to remind yourself that difficult and impossible are two different things. Many things that we have decided are ‘impossible’ aren’t. They’re just difficult. And the thing about difficult is that it gets easier! Impossible stays impossible forever (or at least until we find out it’s not impossible at all – I’m thinking the sub-4-minute mile which many believed was physically impossible). But difficult? Well, when I started driving it was difficult. Now it’s not. When I started writing blogs and articles it was difficult. Now it’s not. When I started using Twitter and Facebook they were difficult! Now they’re not.
Don’t confuse difficult with impossible, and don’t worry about difficult. Just keep on keeping on, and it will become easy. And then of course, you will find the next difficult challenge because you’ll find that it is fabulous fun to turn difficult into easy!
Love
Donna.x