Much Can Not Be Done Until It iS dONE

​Saturday was the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby.

Before Saturday, no female trainer had ever trained the winning horse. Thanks to Cherie DeVaux, trainer of Saturday's winning horse Golden Tempo, we won't be able to say that at the running of the 153rd Derby.

Additionally, jockey Jose Ortiz won his first Kentucky Derby after coming up short in his previous ten attempts. (Narrowly defeating his brother who was riding the horse right next to him at the finish line).

And finally - the horse - the star of the show - Golden Tempo - was dead last entering the long Churchill Downs homestretch before passing every single horse to win the race. Not impossible to do, but rarely the path of this prestigious race's winner.

The Kentucky Derby is always filled with story lines. One of the beauties of the race telecast is hearing a day full of these stories. But maybe the biggest story in this one didn't come to light until after the race.

And that is this:

Almost everything can not be done, until it is done.

The older I get the more I come to believe impossible is a myth. And maybe the more we all believe in that myth the more impossible it is for us to chase our own possibilities.

Trainer Cherie DeVaux’s plan was to go to medical school, but when an advisor said she had to take a class in organic chemistry, “I just looked at her and said: ‘No, I'm going to go work on the racetrack.’ She's like: ‘Are you sure?’ and I was like, ‘I'm just going to see how it works.’”

See how it works out.

Often how things work out starts with how we see them work out.

Do I think it's impossible, or am I all in on the possibilities?

It's a great question to ask ourselves this week.

Do I think it's impossible?

A lot of what's ahead of you this week - and in this life - can not be done.

Until it is.

Golden Tempo saw the path from last to first.

Today, see your path....

And make what can not be done - done.