I came across this powerful true story and wanted to share it with you. George Danzig was a grad student in mathematics at a time when jobs were scarce in the United States.

His math professor, the head of the mathematics department, told the grad students that whoever got the best grade on the final had the opportunity to be hired as his research assistant for the following year.

That job was lucrative, and everybody wanted it. George said he studied so hard for that test that he stayed up until the middle of the night, overslept, and was late.

But he got there in time to take the test, was handed the test, and went to the back of the room. As he was answering the eight math questions, he got through the eight math questions reasonably quickly. When he looked at the blackboard, he saw two problems. He copied them down and began to work on those two problems, but he couldn’t solve them.

He began to think that somebody in this room would solve these problems. “What’s wrong with me?” He kept working on the problems, but he couldn’t. By the time the time allowed had passed, some of the students asked for additional time to work.

The professor said they could take the test home and bring it back by Friday. So George, too, asked for more time. He was told to get the test back by Friday.

George went home and stayed up night after night. This was Monday, all day Tuesday, Tuesday night, and Wednesday night.

He just kept thinking somebody was going to get these solved. Why not me? Why not me? Finally, by Thursday morning, he had one of them solved. Then he kept working late into Thursday night, and on Friday morning, he solved the second one.

He returned the test and turned it in by eleven a.m., the deadline. He went home, wondering what would happen. Sunday morning, at seven a.m., there was a knock, knock, knock at his door.

He jumps out of bed. It’s his professor. His professor says, “George, you’ve made mathematical history! On the way here, I thought you were late for the test, right?”

George said, “Well yeah, did I do something wrong?”

“No,” the professor said, “It’s just that the eight questions were the test. I told everybody who was gathered. I’ve had such a great time teaching all of you. If you want to have fun for the rest of your life, these two questions are the two unsolved math questions that even Einstein himself went to his grave unable to solve. How did you do this, George?”

George recounted that if he had heard that no one had been able to solve those problems, his way of defining his relationship to that problem would have been so different that he would not have made himself available to access the solution within him.

What is impressive is that the same access to overcome the impossible is within every one of us.

Now, I don’t know what you are facing. But I know this about you: You are connected to the Infinite. You have the power and potential to be everything you want to be, to give everything you want to give…and to build a life you truly love!

Know that a solution is always available for any problem you may be facing.

Your job is to stay open to that possibility…