{"id":1181,"date":"2011-08-01T07:08:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2011-08-01T07:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:08:15","slug":"impossibilities-become-commonplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Impossibilities become commonplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; At the top of a letter to the first subscribers of his then new &#8220;Success&#8221; magazine &#8211; in 1922 &#8211; the owner\/editor Orison Swett Marden writes;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Impossibilities are merely the half-hearted efforts of quitters.<\/em>\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The letter begins:  Dear Dreamer,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Grant your imagination full sway. For never before in the history of the world has the door of opportunity been flung so wide<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words that still ring true today&#8230;.almost 100 years later.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In our lifetime we have witnessed the<\/p>\n<p>First liver transplant    1963<br \/>\nFirst heart transplant    1967<br \/>\nFirst artificial heart    1982<br \/>\nFirst liposuction surgery    1985<br \/>\nFirst Lasik surgery    1989<br \/>\nFirst partial face transplant    2005<br \/>\nFirst full face transplant    2011<br \/>\nFirst artificial organ grown in dish with patient&#8217;s own cells in just 10 days transplant 2011<br \/>\nFirst time humans can consciously reverse and prevent aging at genetic level 2011 <\/p>\n<p>We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity for those who choose to unleash their imagination and rise above the CNN (Constantly Negative News).  Tough times demand, foster, and nourish innovation.  Economic well being follows a collective response, never precedes it.  <em>Power is organized effort<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Live with Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; At the top of a letter to the first subscribers of his then new &#8220;Success&#8221; magazine &#8211; in 1922 &#8211; the owner\/editor Orison Swett Marden writes; \u201cImpossibilities are merely the half-hearted efforts of quitters.\u201d The letter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,208,153,31,11,207],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-orison-swett-marden","tag-postaday2011","tag-speaker","tag-success","tag-success-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}