Journal

LIFE INGREDIENTS with Robert Irvine: Issue #40

Oct 29, 2026

Hey Folks,

As always, this is your place to nourish spirit, mind, and body with workouts, recipes, and motivational advice. This month I’ve got a killer core workout, one of my favorite game day recipes, and I write about the damage we do when we label something to be impossible—and how to fix it.

Let’s get into it!

Now, on to the the food!

LIFE INGREDIENTS MOTIVATION

I’ve built my life and career around the word impossible. For over 300 episodes of Restaurant: Impossible, I helped failing restaurant owners turn their lives and businesses around.

The common denominator in all of these failing restaurants? The problems had gotten so big and unwieldy—dwindling customers, mountains of debt, fraying relationships—that the owners felt the situation had become impossible.

But by labeling the problem to be impossible, they gave the problem more power than it deserved.

They made the problem grand, mythical, enormous.

And in doing so, they made themselves small, helpless, hopeless.

If you’re in a similar situation, you can start the process of overcoming it by taking radical accountability right now.

Know this: labeling a problem “impossible”—or so big that it isn’t worth the effort of even trying to solve it—is only done to save face. Most people can’t admit that their effort—either in strategy or execution—simply wasn’t good enough, and told themselves and everyone around them that it was impossible.

“I couldn’t do it, but no one else could, either! It was impossible!”

Uh-huh.

Sorry, but I call BS.

And I think you can’t even begin the process of getting past this problem until you admit this fact to yourself.

Once you do that, there’s still plenty of work to be done, but all the doors will now be open for you.

The truth, after all, shall set you free.

It always does.

Until next time, remember the words I live by:

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.

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