Rediscovering Possibility

Rediscovering Possibility

June 11th, 2025 • Comments Off

Rediscovering PossibilityOlive Gallagher

Personal Best^®

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June 9, 2025

Possibility. A simple word. To the point. No frills. And yet, it’s one I haven’t heard used very much lately. In my book of prose, “The Cage of the Soul” that was published several years ago and remains available on Amazon and Audible, I penned a small, modest piece with that name.

Possibility. It suggests a sense of hope. Of discovery. Of the unknown tinged with positivity and open skies and determination. Of moving forward without fear or favor over mountains that from a distance appear unattainable. Of overcoming even reluctance and apprehension.

How often lately have you felt the urge to choose something, do something, and then thought, “Oh, maybe not. Not now. Not while all this uncertainty tinged with fear swirls around the zeitgeist. Keep my head down. Do what I know. Just keep trying to move forward without attracting too much attention or contention.”

And when aging enters the picture and gets added into that whirlpool, and things begin to head for the floor and hope starts to dissolve into resolve to just try to hold onto the known for as long as you can, possibility is often shelved and replaced with predictability and choices that are safe, boring, even dangerous.

When that ennui takes over, then dreaming often fades away too, and life turns into a mindless twenty-four hour wash, rinse and dry cycle of nothingness.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Dreams are free. So is hope. And possibility.

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Toyota, P&G, PG&E, IBM, Pacific Bell, Telefora, Santa Fe Public School System, New Mexico State Library Association, Supercuts, Department of Labor, National Association of Realtors, Coldwell Banker, The Forum for Corporate Directors, Rockwell International, Western Athletic Clubs, Canyon Ranch Spas, Gibraltar Savings, Patelco, Executive Life, and the EMBA Programs at USC, UCLA, Pepperdine and USF.

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“The Inner Bottom Line” episodes on Blog Talk Radio

Check out thirty of Olive's past radio shows on Blog Talk Radio. Two of the more recent interview shows you might want to catch: The November 30, 2018 broadcast featuring Deborah High and her work with Wildlife Act in Africa. Deborah has spent the past two years volunteering and will be returning again in June, 2019. On the show, she shares her incredible and inspiring insights and experience. And don't miss the return appearance on the December 4, 2018 show by Faith Maloney, one of the amazing co-founders of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Faith shares some of her extraordinary stories about their successful but ongoing global efforts to establish no-kill shelters and provide forever homes for all kinds of animals at the sanctuary in Knaube, UT.

Who is Olive Gallagher?

Olive's book on The Inner Bottom Line®, "A Simple Path to The Good Life™," was published in 2004. She initially created, produced and hosted "The Inner Bottom Line®" as an award-winning Los Angeles-based television interview show that ran from 1988-1991, then transformed it into a nationally syndicated column that ran from 1996 - 2014, last contributing as the national ethics columnist on examiner.com. She holds a BA in Humanities from Case Western Reserve and earned an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, where her thesis film won a Sloan award. Along with Personal Best, Olive has founded four other companies.