"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
The man who uttered the above words conquered the known world in less than two decades. He never lost a battle. If he were a football team, he would be the 1972 Miami Dolphins. I think it's safe to conclude that Alexander the Great knew a thing or two about achieving the "impossible."
The invisible words in the spotlighted quote are new things. There is nothing impossible to the person who will try new things, new approaches, new ideas. What would be the point in trying old things, old approaches, old ideas? If they worked, wouldn't you have what you want?
One of my favorite anecdotes, not only from Alexander's life but from history as a whole, is the tale of the Gordian knot. Legend has it that King Gordius of Phrygia tied a very complex knot. Afterward an oracle declared that the one who could manage to untie the knot would become the next ruler of Asia. It seemed like an impossible task to most people. But Alexander was not most people.
Rather than approaching the challenge in the usual way, Alexander tapped into the magical power of NooDoo. He came at it from a different angle. History tells us that he took out his sword and cut the knot instead of attempting to untie it. Problem solved.
It was one of those "why-didn't-I-think-of-that" moments for everyone else, I'm sure. They didn't think of it probably because they were stuck in old thought patterns (as we often are). To this day, the Gordian knot is used as a metaphor to describe a complex or very difficult problem.
NooDoo This » Meditate on the following affirmation: "There is something new that I can do."
© Matt Decker
» This post is excerpted from my eBook THE MAGIC OF NOODOO
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