NEWSPOT DAILY TONIC : Successful people always looking for possibilities to help others By Bishop Duke Akamisoko

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Bishop Duke Akamisoko writes from Sweden after attending the 38th German Protestant Conference Celebration @ Nurnberg, Germany . Holds once in two years. Next 2025 @ Hannover , Germany

Unsuccessful people always asks!
There are things I want to known: .)You have lots of good ideas that have gone undeveloped: 2) Sometimes, all you need is a little inspiration to go beyond your procrastination, doubt, and inertia.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before waking up. The Wright brother flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do. It’s kind of fun to do the impossible! I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. What is now proved, was once only imagined. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t. The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed. That is the meaning of evolution. Whether you believe you can or not, you’re right. Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. I don’t regret a single excess of my responsive youth. I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. When nothing is sure, everything is possible. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! All things are possible until they are proved impossible. Even the impossible may only be so, as of now. Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great. This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Some people see things as they are and say ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were and say ‘Why not? The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
I love those who yearn for the impossible. Every man is an impossibility until he is born. If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. If someone says can’t, that shows you what to do. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Everything you can imagine in real. Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. I don’t dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living. The shell must break before the bird can fly. If not you, who? If not now, when? So… which of these quotes really speaks to you? And what can you do, today, to take your next step with the project that most inspires you? (KNOW THIS: Anything is possible).
Bishop Duke Akamisoko @ Vastervik , Sweden 12/6/2023