RPF-0044-It_Couldnt_Be_Done_From_Austin
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00:00:15.040 | Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast for Monday, August 18, 2014. I thank you for
00:00:38.480 | being here. Mobile podcasting today. I am on the road, but I wasn't going to leave you without a
00:00:45.200 | show. I wouldn't do that to you. What would you do without your daily dose of Radical Personal
00:00:49.840 | Finance Podcast? I couldn't leave you without a daily dose. I know, I know. Maybe you're not
00:01:05.760 | quite that addicted that you could go one day without a show, but I'm doing my best to bring
00:01:11.600 | you a show every day. And I just want to give you something thought provoking. Today's show is going
00:01:15.200 | to be very different than any show we have ever done, and it will be shorter than any show we have
00:01:18.640 | ever done. I am currently sitting here on the shores of Lake Austin in Austin, Texas. I've been
00:01:24.880 | this weekend at the Podcast Movement Conference in Dallas and then came up to, or down to Austin to
00:01:29.520 | visit a friend of mine. And I'll be back with you soon with full length shows. But today I am going
00:01:35.040 | to share with you a thought provoking poem. I've had a wonderful weekend. I will do, I'll give you
00:01:39.840 | some information and some of the things that I learned attending this conference. I've had an
00:01:42.960 | awesome time and it was really a great experience for me. But I don't have time today to record
00:01:48.720 | that. So I'm going to leave you today with one of my favorite poems. This is a poem entitled,
00:01:55.920 | "It Couldn't Be Done." And the author is Edgar Albert Guest. I won't give you any commentary or
00:02:03.040 | interpret it for you. I will leave that up to you. Somebody said that it couldn't be done, but
00:02:10.560 | he with a chuckle replied that maybe it couldn't, but he would be one who wouldn't say so
00:02:16.640 | till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin on his face. If he worried,
00:02:23.200 | he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be done. And he did it.
00:02:30.000 | Somebody scoffed, "Oh, you'll never do that. At least no one has done it." But he took off his
00:02:36.720 | coat and he took off his hat. And the first thing we knew he'd begun it. With a lift of his chin and
00:02:43.360 | a bit of a grin without any doubting or quit it, he started to sing as he tackled the thing
00:02:49.520 | that couldn't be done. And he did it. There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done.
00:02:56.960 | There are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you one by one
00:03:03.840 | the dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin.
00:03:09.120 | Just take off your coat and go to it. Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
00:03:15.520 | that couldn't be done. And you'll do it.
00:03:18.560 | Enjoy your Monday, everybody.
00:03:24.720 | Hey parents, join the LA Kings on Saturday, November 25th for an unforgettable kids day
00:03:29.760 | presented by Pear Deck. Family fun, giveaways and exciting Kings hockey awaits. Get your tickets now
00:03:35.200 | at lakings.com/promotions and create lasting memories with your little ones.