Since I read the article “Painting without sight” from THE PAINTER’S KEYS, I’ve been marveling about being able to do things without having a frame of reference to do so.

This story is about Esref Armagan, a 51-year-old native of Istanbul, Turkey, who has been blind from birth.

Researchers at Boston University and the University of Toronto have been analyzing his work, trying to dig into and understand his thought processes. They bombard him with questions and subject him to brain scans while he paints. His work, which could be characterized as naïve or primitive, nevertheless shows some use of perspective and other sight skills.

https://painterskeys.com/painting-without-sight/

Esref is able to not only visualize the world he doesn’t see physically, but he is also able to create artwork that helps us to see what he is envisioning, miraculous really!

How is it possible for someone to create an image of something they’ve never seen, let alone be able to understand perspective, shadows, colors, tones, etc.?

It would seem to be impossible to do, yet, he’s doing it!

“The person who says it can’t be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

– Chinese proverb

200 years ago, most of what we take for granted in our day-to-day lives was inconceivable, and would have been labeled as “impossible” or most probably “witchcraft”, yet here we are, living proof of the impossible having come to pass!

How many wonderful ideas are thrown away, never to see the light of day because the inventor was mocked so badly they gave up?

How many times in your own life have you experienced being mocked or shamed for thinking about doing something that others felt would be impossible for you?

I know I experienced that while I was a teenager. My mother told me some of my ideas were “pie-in-the-sky” and yet not only have I accomplished those things, but I have gone on to surpass them! (I had said I wanted to write a book, and I now have a few titles under my name!)

Sometimes the only way to do what is “impossible” is to just quietly set out to do it!

Sometimes in life, we want to do something without having a frame of reference for how to do it, yet when we start to step out onto that path, the way gets shown to us.

I have currently set a goal for myself, which is to work towards setting myself up with a new income stream to see me into my retirement years. My start-up dollars are far less than the current market is dictating I need, so I’m keeping an open mind to see how the universe will bring this to me!

Steps to achieve the impossible:

1. Have a Vision, a goal
2. Break down the steps you need to accomplish this
3. Have Faith that you will do it
4. Be open to changing your steps
5. Start doing the work

Step 5 is important, for we can dream for years, but unless we actually start, we’ll never be able to finish!

I remember being told by the publisher of my illustrated children’s book that I should “put my philosophical thoughts into a book” and I was astonished that anyone would think my thoughts worthy of a book!

I lacked the self-confidence or the self-worth to make a big declaration so I started writing in the smallest, teeniest-tiniest little notebooks I could find. I just wrote down random thoughts as they came to me, and found I was filling up one little notebook after another.

One day a fellow bus passenger asked me what I was scribbling down. In my jauntiest voice, I replied that I was writing a book! He heard the snappy tone, and countered with disbelief, “What, in those tiny things? That’s crazy if you think you’re going to turn that into a book!”

Of course, not everything is as it seems, and people don’t know what subsequent steps we are going to take.

He didn’t know that I would start to write out the sentences on my laptop once I had filled up a few of those notebooks. He didn’t realize the power of copy/paste when writing, to be able to move things around on a page! He didn’t realize that once I started doing that magic process that more thoughts would be triggered and would be added, slowly growing a book out of a few tiny notebooks!

Had I listened to that man’s mocking words and the disdain in his tone, I might never have allowed myself the space to just continue anyway!

Had I figured that he knew better than me, and had decided to listen to his “words of wisdom” I never would have done some of the things I’m most proud of, nor would that have led to blogging and sharing my philosophical thoughts with you!

Sometimes other people don’t know what is best for us, even if they loudly or obnoxiously proclaim they do!

Sometimes we’re perfectly capable of stepping out on a brand new path in spite of doing so “blindly”, for if we’re open to learning as we go, the universe will send us the teachers we need in order to learn the required skills.

Do you have a dream to do something, yet the biggest roadblocks you experience are the people telling you how it’s impossible?

What if you’re the one who develops the very thing that you need to accomplish that dream?

This is how inventions are made!

Someone sees a need for something which doesn’t yet exist, and they make it happen!

What if you were to start small and built from there?

My new goal for myself doesn’t seem probable in today’s market, but I’m also a believer in miracles, of serendipitous things occurring which enable amazing things to happen!

I started this process a few years ago, knowing that it would possibly take me a few years to accomplish. If I even started on the first baby steps a few years ago, I wouldn’t be where I am today!

I know that if I keep doing the steps I need to do, a door will open for me to step through! I just need that one door to open! I’m keeping an open mind that the goal I seek may very well occur in a different way than I originally thought because experience has taught me that’s what often happens!

So, here’s to you!

Here’s to you getting started! Here’s to you starting your own baby steps on your journey! Cheers!

I’m sharing more posts that may be helpful for you:

• 10 Steps to Owning Our Happiness
• Setting “Boundaries with consequences”
• Making a change… “How do I take that first step?”
• Affirmation: Today is a new day! I can do this!
• As we practice being gentle and kind with ourselves, we actually help to speed the process of helping our lives become more positive!
• Always believe that wonderful things can happen!
• A healthy outside starts from the inside!
• Brain Rewiring

More good stuff:

Teaching ourselves to like, even to love ourselves

By changing our inner dialogue, we change EVERYTHING!

Challenge: When a negative thought enters your mind, think three positive ones. Train yourself to flip the script!

Red Ocean or Blue Ocean? How do you think?

An answer to dealing with the Inner Critic!

My top 10 most viewed posts, plus a few bonuses!

A helpful trick to be able to overcome negatively Comparing Ourselves to others…

Do you only accept yourself if you look a certain way?

A new you! Is this possible?

Please go to my Archived Posts page to find more wonderful posts to check out!

Blessings!
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Tamara
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