Episode 170: "When Facing the Impossible."

Greetings, Summit Leaders.

Be encouraged today if you are facing the impossible!

Count it all joy when you face various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance and let endurance have its perfect result so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing in life and career journey.

Recall a situation that "impossible" is the only word to describe it. How did you make it through? Reflect on the events and the insights you gained.

Great leaders experience the impossible on their life and career journey. Yet, the common theme for victory is their faith in believing they can overcome. All things are possible to the one who believes.

Kober is a friend and IBM sales colleague. I recall one year when I asked him how his sales performance was going. "It looks terrible. In all my years of selling, I can’t recall something worse. It doesn't look like I am going to make my numbers." The time was around October in the sales year. December 31 was his deadline which was impossible at the time.

My best encouragement to him was to keep the faith and pray.


Fast forward, to December of that year, Kober won one of the most significant sales opportunities in his career and achieved over 200% of his sales objective. We rejoiced over his victory!

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, a leading general in WWII, encouraged his troops to prepare for victory in the D-day invasion of June 6, 1944.

"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Pray = Power, Resolve, Awakening You."



Facing the impossible tests a leader's faith, resolve, courage, and conviction. Their faith reminds them that all things are possible to you who believe. They ask for victory, seek it in their preparation and planning, and knock against the impossible by taking action.

Understanding the true nature of the battle in life and career helps us develop the right mindset for victory.

Recalling past victories strengthens our faith, resolve, and courage.
Believing that we are in the right place at the right time, doing the right things with the right motivation brings the conviction to pray and not quit,

Great leaders move forward with confidence toward the impossible, believing that they will experience the fulfillment of their beliefs.

They are engaged in the battle with you! One great leader encouraged those following him to "Fear not for I am with you!"


A clean heart. A clear conscience. A confident mind.
This mindset ignites bravery and action in others by what they see in you.

"We become what we think about most of the time." Earl Nightingale

We see victory and refuse to quit or turn back and encourage others as we move forward.

Someone wisely said, "According to your faith be it done unto you."

When facing the impossible, remembering your faith, prayer, and past victories will give us the confidence we need to win!

Victory!