Sixty years ago, October 14 1947, to be exact a young pilot climbed into an experimental plane and took off on a flight to achieve something that had never been achieved before...to break the sound barrier. The prevailing wisdom at the time was mixed with some thinking that the forces would literally rip the wings of the plane or lock the controls up causing a catastrophic and fatal crash.

As it was Chuck Yeager flying the experimental plane the X-1, (named by Yeager "Glamorous Glennis" after his wife) flying at an altitude of 45,000 feet entered the history books as the first man to successfully break the sound barrier. In the years that followed he, and others, continued to fly further and faster and even now there are pilots and plane engineers striving always to 'push the envelope' (as they say in the aviation world) and go faster and further.

Because these people do that, because they strive to do the things that haven't been done before they achieve more and they learn more. After all the benefit is not always in reaching the goal but the wisdom that is learned along the way and we could all learn more wisdom!

I know specifically how I will, for myself, push the envelope today and yes it's a little scary and it's a little unnerving and I welcome that. Because when it is done, when the attempt is made and whether I succeed or fail, I will have pushed my personal envelope out further than it has been before and I welcome whatever that brings.

So I invite you to consider what personal barriers you can exceed before the end of today? What can you attempt that you haven't done before, some target you haven't reached or some action you haven't before taken?

How far can you push the envelope today?