Breaking the Barriers

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Every four years, the world's attention turns to summer Olympic Games. For a few days, men and women from around the globe gather to compete against the best. Watching the summer games nowadays, it's almost difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, track and field experts declared that no runner could break the four-minute-mile barrier. Experts conducted all sorts of profound studies to show it was impossible to beat the four-minute barrier. And for years they were right. Nobody ever ran a mile in less than four minutes.

But one day a young man came along who didn't believe the expert's opinions. He didn't dwell on the impossibilities. He began to train, believing he was going to break that record. Sure enough, he went out one day and broke the four minute-mile barrier. He did what the experts said couldn't be done. His name was Roger Bannister, and he made sports history.

But the most interesting fact about this story is within ten years of the record, 336 other runners were also able to break the four-minute barrier. For hundreds of years nobody ran a mile in less than four minutes; then, within a decade, more than three hundred people from various locations were able to do it. What happened?

Simple, the barrier to running a four-minute mile was in the athletes' minds. For all those years, runners believed what experts were saying. They were convinced that it was impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes.

Are u limited by such opinions today? If so decide to change, you can be a Roger Bannister for your Organization or your family. Impossible is just an opinion not a fact!



Courtesy - Your Best Life Now

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