After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74.

And he was so much more than just a boxer.

Here is the quotation I would like to remember him by:

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
– Muhammad Ali

Two times I think we need to reflect upon “the impossible” and remind ourselves that it’s not:

1.) When we catch ourselves dismissing the possibility of even attempting something simply because it seems too big, too different, too far outside of our current comfort zone. Gotta remind yourself that often (quite often) this is just a story you’re telling yourself. It’s in your head.

2.) When we catch ourselves forgetting just how awesome things are in our lives right now, already — and how “impossible” some parts of our lives must once have seemed. There are so many who are truly living the dream, living the kind of life millions of others (and they themselves, when younger, I bet) would think beyond belief. So much of what you can do today — because of where you are at, because of the skills you’ve acquired, because of technology — once would have seemed pure fantasy. Impossible to believe. But it’s your everyday life now. Never forget how amazing that is.

– Sebastian