My Impossible Goal for 2024:

Amanda Richey
4 min readJan 2, 2024

To Write Every Day and Post Here Weekly on My Progress

Photo by Jan Kahánek on Unsplash

Have you heard of this concept of an impossible goal? It sounds like I am setting myself up for failure by giving it the label impossible, but the idea behind the impossible goal, is about shifting your thinking.

By setting an impossible goal for myself around writing I am working on shifting my thinking about what actually is possible.

Think about what impossible means:

Definition of impossible (Merriam Webster Dictionary)

1a: incapable of being or of occurring

b: felt to be incapable of being done, attained, or fulfilled: insuperably difficult

When setting an impossible goal, you are asking your brain to believe something completely new and the truth is, your brain doesn’t actually know the difference between fact and fiction, it only believes what you tell it.

AND, can we really truly know if something is IMPOSSIBLE? REALLY?

The answer is NO. We can’t. All we can know is what is in our current realm of thoughts and experiences.

Think about 100 years ago, December 1923. Imagine if you took a time machine back to December 1923 and tried to tell people…

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Amanda Richey

Writer, coach, mother. Helping women crush their goals with ease and confidence.