I remember this from when I was a kid:

Chapter 13 - The Adventures of Peter Pan

Tinker Bell's voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.

Peter flung out his arms. There were no children there, and it was night time; but he addressed all who might be dreaming of the Neverland, and who were therefore nearer to him than you think: boys and girls in their nighties, and naked papooses in their baskets hung from trees.

"Do you believe?" he cried.

Tink sat up in bed almost briskly to listen to her fate.

She fancied she heard answers in the affirmative, and then again she wasn't sure.

"What do you think?" she asked Peter.

"If you believe," he shouted to them, "clap your hands; don't let Tink die."

Do you believe?

As an adult, a few years ago I took my nephews & niece to a production of Peter Pan and marveled at how all the kids in the audience believed in Tinker Bell.  They jumped to their feet and clapped their hands with all their strength in order to save poor Tink.  At that moment I remembered, at the same young age, I too had jumped to my feet and clapped with all my might.  

But wait!... Where did I lose it?  As I grew up, where did I lose that  unrestrained, fully committed, total belief in things?  There's something beautiful about a child's faith and belief in an idea.

Somewhere along the way, while we learn that some things are not true, some people are not to believed and some plans don't unfold as hoped. It's sad that along that journey somewhere we also lose, to some degree, that ability to believe in things that, while hard to believe, still are possible.

Believing the possible

Consider what athletes have known for centuries; what's possible is what you can wrap your mind around.  After thousands of years of human advancement, Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first humans to fly.  My grand mother remembered reading the news account of their first flight which astounded everyone.  How do you think she felt in June of 1969 as she sat in the living room with me watching Neil Armstrong step onto the surface of the moon.  When she was a little girl, before the Wright brother's flight, what If someone had told her that "If you clap real loud, a man will build a machine and fly like a bird and before you die you'll see a man walk on the moon."  Could she have gotten her mind around that?  But it happened didn't it?

What's possible for you?

So before you think,

• That may work for others but it won't work for me.
• I can't build my ideal business and my ideal life in less than four years.
• No clients would pay me fees like that.
• I'll never get referrals to folks who meet my Ideal Client Profile.
• As much as I'd like to take our professional relationship to "the next level," the people that come in to see me have few things they care about more than money.
• People will not hire me unless I'm an expert in (investments, market predictions, financial planning, insurance products, etc, etc.)
• An advisor can't build a multi-million dollar individual financial advisory business by implementing someone else's ideas & methods... I want to do things "my way."
• I just can't find a team in my area (that my clients or I can afford) to deliver best in class Comprehensive Financial Services.
• I just can't do this!