The Big Possible

They say happiness is like a tail. If you chase it, you’ll never catch it. But if you focus on other things, it will follow you wherever you go.

Still, it’s nice to have some clue about how to live your life.

It turns out, doing the same things over and over again is not the key to happiness. Happiness, real and true fulfillment, requires adventure.

It makes sense. Nothing gets your mood in the doldrums like doing the same old thing all the time.

Let’s look at the big reasons why adventure leads to happiness.

The Power of Memories
Memories form our identity. And our identity is tied up in our sense of self worth and, ultimately, happiness.

When you go on an adventure, you create vivid memories. You remember the time you visited Machu Picchu much more clearly than what you had for breakfast last Thursday.

These defining memories become part of the story of our lives. When we think of ourselves, we include these moments of adventure. We start to see ourselves as bigger and more daring than we used to. And we start seeing the world as a place full of new things to be discovered and enjoyed.

Personal Growth
Adventure pushes us to do things we’ve never done before — that’s almost part of the definition. It isn’t an adventure to commute to work for the 900th time. It is an adventure to travel across the country to a National Park.

When we go on adventures, we learn more about the world, but as we do that, we learn about ourselves. What are you capable of? What do you like?

It’s been said that you can’t know your country until you know two others. It’s as true for the place you live as well as the body you live in. Until you push yourself into new things, you don’t really know who you are.

And the more you learn and try, the more you become. That is key to your happiness on a deep level: seeing yourself grow.

Money Well Spent
You’ve probably heard this advice, it’s become a well-worn idiom at this point: spend money on experiences, not things. As we’ve seen, adventures are so important for your happiness, and so with your expendable income, they should take priority over acquiring items.

Adventures are satisfying because they give you growth and amazing memories. These don’t get old. When you buy a bigger TV than your old one, you notice how great it is for about a week. After that, you’ve become accustomed to it, and anytime you watch a smaller TV, you are more unsatisfied. But a great memory stands the test of time.

By choosing adventure over luxury items, you invest in happiness

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• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

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There’s a turning point that happens to a champion.

There’s a moment where a hero discovers a hidden switch somewhere that unleashes enough courage to blast through obstacles and emerge victorious, unstoppable.

That turning point is not a magic spell that rains down from heaven, it’s not a pill like in the matrix, but it’s nearly as instantaneous.

The point is like the accumulation of force under pressure, like the tires of a race car hugging a turn, and just when the force is about to flip the car over, the driver smashes the accelerator and the car shoots out of the curve with full momentum.

Or the clarity that the air is granted after the first rain of the season, when all the smog and grime is wiped away, revealing a purity almost forgotten.

This moment is upon you.

The moment when you spin out of the cocoon, bursting 100 miles an hour towards a life calling you know has been written specifically for you.

So how do you access this turning point?

It’s undoubtedly a result of a very powerful combination of forces: struggle, and faith.

The two work like opposing sides of a coin. 

When you stop to look at it, you’ll only see one side. 

Focus on struggle and that’s all you get.

Focus on faith and you’re left dreaming.

It is only when you flip the coin that the two begin to merge together. 

Faith and struggle. That is your compass that will guide you.

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

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Anything is possible once you break it up into smaller pieces.

The impossible is just like a map that hasn’t been explored yet.

When you think of a map as a projection of reallity it becomes easy to then flip it on the inverse and say that if you can imagine it and draw the abstract version of it, then you can make reality mirror the abstract version that you’ve created.

It goes both ways.

Life can be put into a box, or it can flow through a box that you create, similar to how a river will flow through the man made canals.

Today I spent the day creating a plan, and attempting to make this plan as detailed as possible, painting the pathways for reality to flow.

This is the true purpose of a vision. It is to guide the flow of our lives and our desires down a defined pathway.

And although we might draw a sketch for these dreams to flow through, the reality that will wash over us as it flows through this abstract guardrail that we’ve created will leave us utterly breath taken and filled with wonder at the level of detail and depth the real thing is made of.

Because no matter how many plans we make we cannot compare with the vividness that is the true experience of living in the moment.

Plan.

That’s how you reach the impossible.

You set your sights on it and it will come to be.

If an impossible thing were not planned, but still achieved, would it be celebrated? 

Maybe that is humilty. Doing the impossible and solemnly accepting it as par for the course.

Like a lone seedling that has found a foothold on a rocky cliff, then grown to a majestic tree shooting striaght out of stone. The tree needs no witness to realize it’s strength. It is strong because it is.

There’s no complaint uttered in the humble pursuit. There’s no fear of failure when fueled by the passion to live as you are destined for. Greatness is not something only dripped out to a select few in life.

Greatness is a part of who you are.

Define it, and it will vibrate into reality. Call it forth, like a fearless snake charmer commanding a cobra. You are the master of your reality. You are the channeler of greatness.

Today we plan. Today we accept that our abstract vision of life can be projected onto reality.

Today, we choose a plan that stretches us, because we are worthy of all we can imagine. 

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.

We’ve all had some shitty cards dealt to us. No matter how great your luck, there’s always going to be some things that can be considered a bad hand.

It’s what you do with that hand that matters.

You have the choice to look at everything as a blessing. You have the choice to love.

Love is that which enables choice in the first place.

Think about it. Without love you wouldn’t be able to distance yourself from the situation to see that there’s good in it.

But as soon as you realize that you can look at any situation through the eyes of a child - without judgement - just accepting that it is, and asking the question ‘what is this?’ you can begin to love it.

When you face a situation with love, all the power that this situation had over you melts away. 

The villain is no longer scary, it is just a thing needing love like the rest of us.

Let love be your default choice.

Why?

Because love will always be stronger than fear. There is no way that fear can last in the face of love. When you’re greeted with fear, embrace it. Forgive it. 

And then pick up your feet and move the fuck on from it.

All those breadcrumbs lurking in the shadows clamoring for your attention aren’t going to let you rise to your greatest truth.

Tethers. That’s what they are.

Chains. Keeping you stuck lamenting over the past.

Love will set you free.

Love for yourself, love for your power, love for your direction.

Let your love flow out from within you, a golden shimmering river that pours across the entirety of your past, your future, your present journey.

Paint the shadows of your past in the golden glow of forgiveness and rise like the champion you are.

What matters is how you choose to apply your talents now, where you shout the life giving roar of your voice, Where you dedicate your attention, because you have so much incredibly powerful creative energy inside of you. Direct it. Channel it. Guide it.

Do it with love.

Do it with forgiveness.

You are not meant for small things.

You are not meant to chase your tail.

You are not meant to be chained to the past.

Today, you accept that you are worthy of greatness.

Today, you accept that this path can be healed with love.

Let all those who have wronged you, especially your own shadow, be forgiven.

Release your fear.

Release your regret.

Release the ticking doom of the clock, and embrace love for the moment. 

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.

What if anything were possible? What if failure weren’t an option? What if you had an all powerful companion, residing always beside you, a divine friend, someone you could trust with everything. And what if this all powerful friend of yours could simply take each and every thought of yours, all of your decisions, computations, musings… And filter them, analyze them with its all knowing power then refine them and straighten them to The pure, clear concept that is your truth?

What if you could rely on this companion for everything? That there would never be judgment that you would never be alone.

What would you attempt? How far would you go? The burden of fear is an unnecessary tether holding you back from greatness. The circling thought of doubt will spin you in unnecessary loops, delaying your rise to brilliance.

Hand these thoughts to your subconscious, to the divine companion in your mind. Trust that all your worries are cleansed… Purified.

There is no need for complexity. All you need is to know that some greater power has your back. You are on the right path. Put aside regret. Put aside shame. Forgive the path that you’ve walked. Forgive the people in your life who you carry a grievance towards. 

Hand these burdens to the cleansing companion in your mind and let this divine friend of yours straighten all that junk out. Feel the relief that comes from letting go trying to solve it all on your own. Let a great river of forgiveness and love for through you. You are overflowing with power. You are flowing unobstructed, with creative power. You have unlimited talents to apply to your purpose today.

You are filled with strength. You can achieve anything today, you can set the wheels in motion through your effort. Trust in the forces that are backing you.

Surrender to the divine purpose and let go of your fears. You got this.

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.

Finding Your Purpose.

What are you meant to do?

You have endless talents, what will you use them for?

When you aren’t sure of what your purpose is, build pyramids.

Build what you know.

Build what you value.

We look back at the efforts of the Egyptians 2000 years ago and wonder what the point was.

The pyramids don’t serve any purpose.

Yet, they exist.

The effort that went into creating them is indisputable.

Someone had the vision to build them, then recruited the labor and minds of others to make them happen.

So your dream might feel ambiguous right now.

That’s alright.

Nurture it. It will grow.

Continue taking care of that mission every day, and people will show up to help you bring it into fruition.

Build a pyramid.

It doesn’t have to be some divine, perfect purpose. It just needs to invite you to apply effort.

You always have effort, you always have passion.

Put them into action building.

It doesn’t matter what shape your pyramid will manifest when it’s done.

It matters that you gain skills and perspective as you build.

That’s what makes a great life.

The great life is built brick on brick.

Every day laying another brick on the foundation.

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.

You can’t put happiness off

You can’t postpone your happiness. Happiness isn’t a goal to be reached. Happiness isn’t something you only worthy to gain after you complete a trial of suffering. Everything happening right now in your life is without a doubt helping you on some grander level. This is all for your ultimate good.

The pieces to the puzzle lie at your feet. Within this puzzle there is unlimited peace and happiness.

Last night I had a friend telling me that her life was hard in her 20s, and she had to work and suffer constantly without being able to enjoy the lackadaisical college life that others seem to have. I looked at her with compassion, remembering my own thoughts of regret towards the level in which I was able to enjoy my youth.

These stories, these memories are the puzzle pieces at your feet. Each piece on its own Might not have an attractive lustrous color, but to look at your life with regret is to deny the manifestation of the brilliance within you at this moment.

See the puzzle at your feet for a tall picture. Takes stock on all your limitless talents, your creative thoughts, your intelligence, your unique storytelling, your vision, your knowledge. You have unlimited, endless skills and talents.

You are overflowing with power. You are blessed to access happiness right now. Put a puzzle together and look at your past with gratitude for bringing you here, for giving you the colors before you.

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.

What level are you playing at?
What level do you want to be on?

More importantly, what does true satisfaction look like? What does heaven look like? If you were able to skip the tutorial, skip the purgatorial lobby to your dreams, and just bust through the gates of paradise to the life you were born for, what would that look like?

Just imagine it. Imagine skipping the stupid baby steps. Imagine discarding the dull and the dreadful rights of passage that you’ve somehow deemed your necessary penance to live a content life…

Imagine discarding those like a dog drops his slobbery wet rope toy when you present before him a dripping, juicy steak… One of those steaks falling off the bone, with the steam rising from the glistening meat… that steam going right to his nose. The slobbery rope toy   is dropped in an instant, meaningless and forgotten.

Don’t keep torturing yourself with baby steps.

You’ve earned your stripes. You’re ready to claim the hard, glorious, rightful level to play on. Lift your shoulders high and rise up to the stage. This is your calling. This is your chance to dominate.

Today make the decision to only except what you were born for. Heaven is a decision you make today. Don’t change your mind. It’s the only thing you truly want, so don’t settle for stupid, don’t settle for baby steps. Leap into your rightful place today with all your power.

Skip first gear. Skip second gear. Put the engine in fifth and start living big.

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.

Anguish. What’s it good for? A bold life is going to have a few run-ins with misfortune. Imagine it like the first day of summer vacation, when you run to the beach, white as a ghost and then decide to stay in the sun for far too long, you’re going to get a few burns.

What’s the point to Anguish over it?

 Heal.

Get back up and go out it again. Repeated exposure won’t break you, like a healthy glow of a suntan, or a lithe and powerful batch of scar tissue beneath a well toned muscle… Take it.

Don’t simply endure it, drink it up, like it’s the blood of some magical creature that will bestow all powerful ability and wisdom upon you.

Hallelujah. You screwed up. Sweet. You miss calculated. Great.

It’s time to make a pivot and try again? Excellent.

Every screwup is getting you closer to what you were truly meant for. This doesn’t mean you go down cursed to misfortune with some masochistic optimism Like Voltaire’s Candide, but that you gain wisdom and clarity through the process that will better position you to crack the approach on your next go.

So you tried to launch a rocket to space… And it exploded into 100,000 chunks of metal 10 m off the ground. Launch another one. Keep rotating the puzzle in your hands and smile at the great fortune you have to be able to swing the bat.

Don’t wish you were over this part already. Because if you skip this part, you’ll never know what strength you’ll pass on.

Be present here and you’ll find out the clues to the next level. While you’re here on this level get a high score experience all you can make as many screw ups as possible, crash into every barrier.

Now - Be grateful that your screwup‘s are reversible.

Imagine the torment that a general on the battlefield might be burdened with when he makes a screw up.

Imagine the same general to be the Roman general responsible to drive Hannibal out of Italy. 

Every battle resulted in another loss. 

Every time the general would send troops to Hannibal’s forces they would be met with utter defeat.

Again and again, the general would have to bear the burden of the lives of countless good soldiers.

But the general would resolutely lick his wounds, rally forward again until Hannibal’s army slowly whittled away and one day had no more foothold on Italy and Hannibal’s Carthage was finally forced to surrender.

And so today might be a screwup for you, today you might be forced to take a retreat, to feel the heavy blow of defeat.

Good. That’s a signal that you’re taking risks. That’s a signal you’re fighting for a change.

Try again. Launch another rocket.

I know you have one more shot left.

And when that one’s fired you got two more.

Give it your all.

Rise up and celebrate the scars on your fists.

Today’s the day you become stronger than defeat.

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.