When I
consider
what
could
become
possible
(meeting my ex-wife,
the
mother
of
my three children,
for the first
time
in ten years, for example) which I once knew was impossible, it's
likely going to require I be
committed
in a
way
I've not been
committed
before. There's so much stuff in
the way.
And when I tell the
truth
about it, I neither know
how
to make it
happen,
or even if I can ever make it
happen
at all. Here's another example: in my
experience of skydiving,
there was no
way
I would jump out of a perfectly good airplane thousands of feet up in
the sky if I
listened
to what my
mind
was telling me about it.
The way
out through the door of that Piper Cherokee 6 eventually
became accessible to a terrified me, but only after I'd
committed
to jumping no matter what.
The
line
linking the before of a
breakthrough
with the after of a
breakthrough,
is obviously not a continuous
line.
It's more of a dis-continuous
line.
More
rigorously,
you could say it's more of a
dis-contiguousline.
In other
words,
if you look at the discontiguous
line
of a
breakthrough
after the fact, you'll see there's a jagged break, whereas
describing it as a
dis-continuous
line
suggests there's also a break, albeit a more predictable one.
So
breakthroughs
start with
languagespeakingpossibility,
then manifest in unpredictable behavior (ie unpredictable, given the
already always
known
past).
They move from impossibility to
possibility
to manifest behavior, shattering our erstwhile concepts of
who we are,
of what we're capable of accomplishing, and of what's
possible
for ourselves and for our lives.
You could say one of the many hallmarks of living a life like it's
always
business as
usual
is it neither grants credence to
possibility
itself, and nor does it grant credence to
breaking through
patterned behavior into what's newly
possibleas an
act
of
intention
ie as a
linguistic act,
an
act
of
speaking
into
possibility
something which was once known to be impossible. So you could also say
one of the many hallmarks of living a life like it's always
business as usual,
is it's also always bereft of
breakthroughs.
Listen:
this isn't figure-out-able. It doesn't come from there. It comes
from
taking a stand,
and
committing
to a result, whether the pathway to that result is
clear
or not (and more often than not, it isn't).