Around the beginning of the last century, polio was rampant, irreversibly paralyzing thousands of children. Immunization programs were introduced and Rotary took this as their major project. In 1988 350,000 children were afflicted with polio throughout the world, by 2013, the number had dropped to just 416 cases and India was no longer on the list of polio-endemic countries.
What did Rotary International do, they looked for the impossible and helped make it possible.
To a very great extent India has done the same with its vaccination programme; they had the gigantic task of vaccinating nearly a billion and they’ve tackled the impossible and on their way to winning!
I’ve tried to do the same at certain times in my life; when I took over as chairman of a housing society, I found that certain buildings even after 25 years had not got their occupation certificates. With my team backing me I decided we would tackle the impossible.
We got the certificates for all the buildings within 6 months. And when you tackle the impossible, quite often all the forces of the positive will come to your rescue. I remember visiting the officer in charge of Occupation Certificates and as I sat waiting for him to look up from his newspaper, I found that he was reading the very newspaper that carried my daily column and wonder of wonders he was at that exact moment reading my column, having no idea I was sitting in front of him. He put down his paper, and nearly jumped with surprise, because all along, he’d been seeing my photo above the column and now there I was in flesh and blood. Whether he thought he’d seen a ghost or not I don’t know, but we got our occupation certificates in two months.
Tackle the impossible and the heavens open to help.
Many of us sit on boards or on committees. There is a reason for you being there, and the reason is not to go about doing the mundane and ordinary but to tackle problems others have left unresolved.
Most committees don’t go for the impossible, because the chairman or president want to have a safe year. But he or she also want to be known as spectacular leaders, so they take ordinary projects like planting a few trees, giving a few clothes to the poor and photograph it and sends the pics all over to make people feel they’ve done the impossible.
The only impossible they’ve done is to make small, look big through clever photography!
Don’t get caught in this trap. Pictures may lie, but truth won’t. Look around; your impossible task, maybe something simple, but which others say can’t be done. For a club president last year, it was just the cleaning of a garbage dump, which people for twenty odd years had said couldn’t be done. It was done. What’s your impossible project? Do it, show it can be done, and you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you can make the impossible, possible ..!
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Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.
We all must make a difference in this world of chaos and greed. Unfortunately such people are few and far between.
We have a God who specialises in making the impossible possible. With Him on our side, we can do all things if we exercise our will and put in time and effort; we will achieve success, thereby rising above the mediocre.
At times we are faced with tasks that appear impossible to accomplish.
These are actually
a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
We need to tackle the impossible , with courage and perseverance, then we can make it possible !
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, as the saying goes. My father in law often said, ‘Where there’s no will, there’s a big hill. Constant dripping weareth away rock and a way is made. A hill can be got through if it is given a thought, effort and the time of day that’s needed if we’re proactive.