{"id":2601,"date":"2015-12-06T22:13:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T03:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2015-12-06T22:13:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T03:13:28","slug":"three-minute-leadership-inspired-in-the-face-of-the-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2015\/12\/three-minute-leadership-inspired-in-the-face-of-the-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Inspired in the Face of the Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p>In an episode of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/greys-anatomy\">Grey\u2019s Anatomy TV show<\/a>, the character Isaac, in the face of asking a surgeon to operate on a seemingly inoperable tumor, says:\u00a0<em>\u201c\u2026 there is always a way when things look like there&#8217;s no way. There&#8217;s a way to do the impossible, to survive the unsurvivable. There&#8217;s always a way. And \u2026 you and I have this in common. We&#8217;re inspired. In the face of the impossible, we&#8217;re inspired. So if I can offer one piece of advice \u2026 today, if you become frightened, instead become inspired.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As we have said so many times before, there is no such thing as impossible.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lou_Holtz\">Lou Holtz<\/a>\u00a0reminds us: \u201c<em>Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it, and maintain a positive attitude.<\/em>\u201d Everything is possible because of the very fact that each and every one of us is possible. Learn from Isaac\u2019s wisdom. Be inspired by your fears and challenges. Let them serve you in discovering the undreamed of possibilities within you. As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_de_La_Fontaine\">Jean de la Fontaine<\/a>\u00a0wrote:\u00a0<em>\u201cMan is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Let your fears and challenges set you on fire, and change the world.<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2476 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" alt=\"MIKE\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg 188w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning In an episode of the\u00a0Grey\u2019s Anatomy TV show, the character Isaac, in the face of asking a surgeon to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3072,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3072"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}