The other day I came across a bumper sticker which took a very ordinary word—used perhaps many times a day for most people—and magically transformed it with an adept use of an apostrophe.  The bumper sticker read:

I’mpossible

    What a great demonstration of how we can change our attitude, willingness, and enthusiasm by slightly altering the way we look at something!  What a wonderful affirmation to take something that seems impossible (only because we have accepted that reality as true) and make it possible by confirming our own creativity and abilities.

I’mpossible

     Big changes can be accomplished by making small adjustments — usually in our thinking.  By realizing that it is possible because I’m possible invites a whole new energy of creativity and confidence where previously there was a closed door of limitation and despair.  Imagine the enormous changes in our lives by practicing this art of slightly moving the apostrophe, comma, syllable, word, phrase, thought or action—by working it until it moves us into the direction of hope and growth.  Let us become the ultimate architects of our lives, redirecting every challenge to a previously unimagined beneficial outcome.

I’mpossible

      How many doors to our fulfillment have we closed, because we were convinced that they couldn’t be opened?  How many opportunities for happiness, joy and possibility have we ignored under the pretense of lack or negation: “Im-.”  “I can’t do this because I don’t have that.”  Doing to have.  Having to do.  We are offered a key to release ourselves from this having-doing cycle of stagnation.  Change the negation, “Im-,” to an affirmation of being and becoming, “I’m” — and mean it!

I’mpossible

      What an exciting choice this little bumper sticker offers us: to live life with or without the apostrophe.  Which are you choosing?

I’mpossible
I’mpotent
I’mpractical
I’mmovable
I’mpermissible
I’mpersonal
I’mprobable
I’mpatient
I’mmature
I’mmaterial
I’mplausible
I’mpious
I’mprudent
I’mpure
I’mproper
I’mpenetrable
I’mmodest
I’mponderable
I’mperceptive
I’mpermanent
I’mperfect