Phil’s Story Will Tell You Nothing is Impossible

Photo Credit: https://www.wired.com/story/the-overlooked-heroes-who-lead-climbers-up-everest/. Note: this is not a photo of Phil.

Many things is life seem insurmountable. Sometimes it’s true. Sometimes it’s just ourselves telling our brains that we can’t do it… Or society. Or as Tai Lopez says: “our 500 year old archaic mind”.

“What we face may look insurmountable, but what I learned is that we are always stronger than we know” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Most of the time, it’s just a matter of perspective. And this is what this story is about.

When my wife and I were ready to leave Canada for the second time as nomads, we were getting rid of the only few things we owned, namely, a mattress on the floor and a bookshelf. Seriously.

I put an ad to get rid of the bookshelf and about 30 seconds later I received an email from a guy named Phil, asking if the bookshelf was still available. He’s the main protagonist of this story and will become our main source of inspiration here.

Audrey and I in our empty apartment before leaving Canada, for the second time.

So I wrote back saying that of course it was still available, it had been 30 seconds only! Talk about a guy eager to get himself an almost pristine bookshelf for peanuts! He wanted to come pick it up pretty much right away. I couldn’t arrange for that, so…